Documentary

• Roy Shaw - Brute Force | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This documentary takes a look at unlicensed boxing legend Roy 'Pretty Boy' Shaw one of the hardest blokes in the UK! In addition there are two further documentaries: the first featuring Tony Lambrianou and the second Charlie Bronson. Roy Shaw - Brute Force: Armed robbery murder bare knuckle fighting. From Broadmoor to King of the cobbles Roy Shaw lived his violent life by a merciless code 'Pretty Boy' is Britain's hardest men. Tony Lambrianou - Legend & Gentleman:

• On And Off The Rails - The British Transport Films Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1949 the British Transport Commission established a films section to to enable it to use film as a tool for internal training and external promotion. Some of the greatest English creative worked on these documentaries including: Sir John Betjeman Michael Redgrave and John Schlesinger.

• Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans documents McQueen's obsession to make 'the ultimate racing movie' through present day interviews with his family, including his son Chad McQueen and ex-wife Neile Adams McQueen and key members of the production team, along with a wealth of previously undiscovered, unseen 'behind the scenes' footage filmed on set in 1970. Evoking a special era and bringing this fascinating story to life for the first time, Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans redefines the myth and magic of Steve McQueen the movie star and sheds new light on Steve McQueen the visionary filmmaker.

• The General Post Office Film Unit Collection Vol.2 - We Live In Two Worlds | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £22.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (9.65%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Created in 1933 out of the ashes of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit the GPO Film Unit was one of the most remarkable creative institutions that Britain has produced. A hotbed of creative energy and talent it provided a spring board to many of the best-known and critically acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement including John Grierson Alberto Cavalcanti Humphrey Jennings Basil Wright Harry Watt Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton alongside innovators and experimentalists such as Len Lye and Norman McLaren. Their work embraced public information drama-documentary social reportage animation advertising and many points in between. The BFI National Archive in partnership with the British Postal Heritage Museum Royal Mail and British Telecom has preserved and curated the legendary output of short films produced by the GPO Film Unit. This the second of three volumes represents the GPO Film Unit at its creative height - including much-loved classics such as Night Mail the experimental animations of Len Lye and Norman McLaren and Harry Watts' first forays into drama documentary with The Saving of Bill Blewitt and North Sea.

• Tales from the Shipyard | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £22.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (0.88%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Tales from the Shipyard: Britain's Shipbuilding Heritage on Film This double-disc DVD brings together over 5 hours of documentary film about Britain's shipbuilding heritage - from scenes of jubilant workers celebrating spectacular launches in the early 1900s to King George V and Queen Mary's morale-boosting trip to Northern England's shipyards in the tail end of the Great War; from the planning and building of the luxury liner S S Olympic to stunning lyrical documentaries such as Shipyard (1935) and The Sea Shall Test Her (1954). The DVD set is completed by an illustrated booklet of new essays and notes.

• Rosamunde Pilcher's September | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £16.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (5.95%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Whose lifeless body has been found in the loch and how did it get there? We all have secrets, and the aristocratic families living in the Scottish village of Strathcoy are no exception.The beautiful, carefree Pandora disappeared from the village twenty years ago under a cloud of suspicion. She is returning at the invitation of Verena Steynton who is having a dance and wants everyone to be there… whatever the priceWhat past history is Edmund hiding from his wife Virginia? What does Mad Lottie know and how much more will she discover? Why did the down at heel Lord of the Manor Archie drive his sister away? And what price will they all pay for the secrets and lies that must have their consequences? The questions arrive with Pandora. The answers may prove more challenging.

• Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky And The Media | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This film showcases Noam Chomsky one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. Travelling with Chomsky through Canada Japan Europe and across the USA the documentary bears witness to a tireless activist informing challenging and being confronted by the public and the press.

• Dione Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Blu Ray | (07/11/2022) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Follows the life and career of Dionne Warwick. Featuring: Quincy Jones Burt Bacharach Bill Clinton Clive Davis Gladys Knight Cissy Houston Elton John Damon Elliott Kenneth Cole Berry Gordy Jerry Blavat Snoop Dogg Smokey Robinson

• One Hundred Years of British Trains | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £7.56   |  Saving you £5.43 (41.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This programme which features great names and great trains such as the Golden Arrow and the Brighton Belle covers a period from the heyday of steam to lines chopped by Dr Beechings axe. Industrial railway working practices and visits to the great cathedrals of the steam age the loco sheds are all here

• The Story Of The London Underground | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £12.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (5.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Ny-lon The Complete Series | DVD | (29/04/2013) from £5.98   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seven-part drama starring Rashida Jones (The Office) and Stephen Moyer (True Blood). When Edie Miller, a New Yorker on vacation in London, has her bag stolen on the South Bank, it leads to a chance meeting with native Londoner Michael Antonioni. Sparks fly and, even though Edie is due to fly home the very next day, there's no denying the chemistry.

• Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 1974 | Blu Ray | (11/04/2011) from £20.95   |  Saving you £-3.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In 1974 award winning film maker Tony Palmer followed Rory Gallagher and his band on their tour of Ireland. The subsequent movie was released in cinemas to great critical acclaim and has gone on to be accepted as one of the great rock films. Now for the first time the film has been lovingly restored and remastered from the original footage and is being reissued on DVD and released for the first time on Blu-ray. There is a massive improvement in both sound and picture quality over the original DVD release and finally Gallagher fans can get to see the film as it was meant to be capturing Rory his music the period and the place to perfection. Tracklisting: 1) Walk On Hot Coals 2) Tattoo'd Lady 3) Who's That Coming 4) A Million Miles Away 5) Going To My Home Town 6) Cradle Rock 7) As The Crow Flies 8) Hands Up 9) Bullfrog Blues

• The Corporation | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brilliant documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

• American Interior | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Welsh cult musician Gruff Rhys documents his latest musical road trip retracing the fantastical American journey of his 18th Century relative the explorer John Evans. In search of a lost tribe of Welsh-speaking Native Americans John Evans left Wales for America in 1792 with only a $1.75 in his pocket. Alone and without a horse he walked into the wilderness of the Great Plains of the Wild West and reappeared seven years later as Don Juan Evans. During the course of his bizarre-yet-true adventure Evans won the allegiances of the American Indian tribes of the Omaha and the Mandan. Swam with Alligators. Hunted Bison. Survived malaria defected to the Spanish crown and single handedly appropriated North Dakota from the Canadians. Yet Evans's greatest achievement was to create the map of the Missouri river used by Lewis and Clarke to help them discover the Pacific Ocean. Legend has it he died broke and out of his mind in New Orleans at the tender age of 29 never knowing the impact of his life's work. American Interior is an investigative concert tour. Fiction fact fantasy myth and music documentary collide as Rhys flies like an eagle and howls like a wolf while following in the footsteps of his (extremely) Great uncle. Starting at Yale University's Beinecke Library where Evans' famous map is said to reside Rhys fully immerses himself in concerts recording sessions and conversations with journalists academics psychologists and locals on Evans' route. From Baltimore to St. Louis up to the Mandan Reservation Casino and down the Mississippi basin to the Old Governor's house in New Orleans Rhys investigates Evans's significance in American history the true circumstances of his death and the lost location of his final resting place.

• World War I: The Great War | DVD | (09/12/2013) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yet, it was more than just a war between nationals. It was a war between what was and what was to be. The 'old world' was dying and the 'new world' had yet to be born. People of all classes saw it was some great cleansing fire that would accelerate this battle and lead to a better world. But when it was over, more than men had died in the mud of the battlefields; the naive dreams of progress, along with the innocence of the pre-world war, faith in God and hope in the future all died in the tr...

• Spiritual Reality | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £10.75   |  Saving you £2.24 (17.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Spiritual Reality - The Ultimate Guide To Meditation

• National Parks Of The Western United States | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £11.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (54.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Disc One: Northwest - These films feature the national parks of America's magnificent Northwest from the Georgia Strait and Puget Sound basin to the mountain peaks and boreal forests of Alaska. Explore the depths of Crater Lake and the peaks of Mount McKinley with this collection that is sure to inspire awe and respect for one of America's most beautiful regions. Includes: Glacier Bay: The Grand Design - Katmai - One Man's Alaska - Olympic: The Incredible Wilderness - Olympic Wilderness Encounter - What Is A Mountain - Crater Lake - Nez Perce: Portrait Of A People. Disc Two: California - Explore the diverse geography of California and its national parks including the sandy beaches of the Pacific coast and the rugged snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountains the deserts of the southeast as well as the mighty coastal forests with their towering Sequoia trees. Includes: Amazing Grace - Death Valley: Valley Of Life - Giant Sequoia - Joshua Tree - Treasure In The Sea - Lava Beds National Monument - Something Special: Point Reyes National Seashore - Voyage Of Discovery Disc Three: Southwest - From the cactus-filled Sonora Desert to the deep canyons of the Colorado Plateau a multicolored land of canyons mountains sandstone and mystery awaits in these beautifully filmed features that bring the Southwest's national parks to life. Includes:Lehman Caves National Monument - Bats Of Carlsbad - Big Bend Encounter - Canyon Voices - Pecos - Pipe Spring - Sunset Crater Arizona - Some People Just Call It The Lake

• Streif: One Hell Of A Ride | DVD | (18/01/2016) from £8.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (66.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Documentary focusing on the annual Hahnenkamm ski race in the Austrian town of Kitzbühel and its iconic downhill course the Streif. The film follows international skiers Aksel Lund Svindal, Max Franz, Hannes Reichelt, Erik Guay and Yuri Danilochkin over the course of a year as they prepare for the 2014 edition of the race, its 75th anniversary. The documentary also follows Kitzbühel's preparations for the competition and includes highlights from past races.Technical Specs: Languages(s): German, EnglishSubtitles: EnglishInteractive Menu

• Tsunami - The Killer Wave | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (114.76%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD is a moving programme showing the personal stories behind the disaster. This documentary (filmed for BBC 1) tells the story of the victims their families and the volunteers helping them rebuild their lives after the Asian Tsunami disaster. Filmed on the devastated coastline of Phuket this one-hour special follows the extraordinary personal stories of how the Tsunami disaster struck on the day after Christmas and how tourists aid teams and tens of thousands of local people

• Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Movie - The Handinger Edition | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £6.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (158.85%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From the makers of the highly successful cult classic TV series comes Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie - one of the most outrageous, most irreverent, and most hilarious big-screen spoofs ever! A mad scientist, in his quest for world domination, concocts a diabolical scheme to subject the human race to the worst movie ever made: 1955's This Island Earth. It's up to one test subject's quick wit, sharp sense of humor, and utter intolerance for cinematic garbage to foil the plans of the scientist and to save the Earth. Experience the hijinks and low jabs of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie - where the worse the movie is, the better time you'll have!