Documentary

• Powaqqatsi Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (15/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  PO WAQ QA TSI po?waq?qa?tsi (from the Hopi language, powaq sorcerer + qatsi life) n., an entity, a way of life, that consumes the life forces of other beings in order to further its own life Told without dialogue, narration, cast or characters, Powaqqatsi is a dizzying, hypnotic example of cinema set to an extraordinary score by Philip Glass. Godfrey Reggio's remarkable sequel to Koyaanisqatsi, his previous collaboration with Glass, focuses on the Southern hemisphere and witnesses ancient cultures and traditions slowly eroding away as the modern world takes over. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Restored digital transfer, approved by director Godfrey Reggio, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio Anima Mundi Reggio's 1992 short film, a 28-minute montage of over seventy animal species, scored by Philip Glass Impact of Progress Interviews with Reggio and Glass Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork

• Kurt Cobain - About A Son | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £9.74   |  Saving you £10.25 (105.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book ""Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana."" In the film Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life music and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public and they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood.

• Stephen Fry - Wagner and Me | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £5.35   |  Saving you £10.64 (198.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Described by the Vancouver International Film Festival as a dazzling emotional whirlwind of a documentary the film follows Stephen Fry on a very personal journey to explore his fascination for history's most controversial composer: Richard Wagner. Stephen follows the Wagner trail to Switzerland and Russia immersing himself in the music and piecing together the larger-than-life story of the composer himself. But Stephen is Jewish - can he salvage the music he loves from its dark association with Hitler and the Nazis?

• Creature Comforts - the Complete Series 3 | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £7.78   |  Saving you £12.21 (156.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Creature Comforts: USA Series 3

• The Last Fisherman | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A century ago every port on the coast of North-East England had its own fleet of cobles. Fishermen braved stormy seas to bring back the daily catch in these tiny wooden boats whose design goes back to the Viking longships. But now more cobles are being destroyed than are being built. And a unique way of life is vanishing fast. This DVD tells the story of the coble and features the handful of men who still use the boat for fishing. At Boulmer in Northumberland Main Stephenson's coble Northern Pride is one of just three still based at the village. In summer he casts his nets close to the beach hoping to catch sea trout in the way his forefathers did. In winter he goes potting for lobsters and crabs. Off Whitby in North Yorkshire Shaun Elwick casts lines bristling with 1 600 baited hooks as he fishes for cod. Dozens of Whitby boats used to employ this traditional technique but Shaun's coble Charisma is one of only two still using the long lines. The decline in coble fishing has hit boat-building too. But in a small shed in Whitby Steve Cook and Lennie Oliver are keeping a tradition alive. They're making a coble for Lennie to use in Robin Hood's Bay. It's the first to be built on the coast for 15 years. But it may well be the last.

• Executions | DVD | (26/07/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  State-sponsored murder or justice? More than 26 million people have been executed since 1900. But less than 10% have committed any real crime other than belonging to the ‘wrong’ religion race or political party. An objective look at the cultural social and historical context of the death penalty ‘Executions’ offers a rare insight into the rights and wrongs of the ultimate act of retribution. It chronicles its use in the 20th century and examines the

• Faster / Fastest (Double Pack) | DVD | (29/04/2013) from £5.71   |  Saving you £-0.72 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Original Classic and All-New MotoGP Documentaries directed by Mark Neale: FasterFaster is an electrifying tribute to the white-knuckle world of MotoGp- the fastest sport on two wheels - where the world's top riders go wheel to wheel at over 200MPh and crash at over 100MPh. Narrated by ewan Mcgregor Faster chases two seasons' worth of the world championship featuring revealing interviews with riders Mechanics doctors coMMentators and fans. if you want high octane adrenaline fuelled thrills Faster will take you on a nerve shredding journey through the most exciting sport on the planet. FastestFastest is another thrilling documentary directed by Mark Neale and narrated by ewan Mcgregor. It highlights the thrills spills and incredible commitment and courage the sport demands of its stars. With unprecedented behind-the-scenes access and never before seen angles interviews and insight this truly cinematic experience charts the exhilarating highs crushing lows career-threatening crashes and spectacular comebacks including Valentino Rossi's 41 days turn around to race following a leg shattering crash. Special Features: Battle of the Brothers Yellow Lauren Vicker's Guide to Moto GP Save! Redneck Physics and Real Physics Furusawa Rossi and the M1 Rider for Health Trailer

• Great Expectations, A Journey through the History of Visionary Architecture | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Including concrete illusions of grandeur and Lego-like modular apartments to an Instant City Airship and round grass-covered subterranean dwellings-from the beginning of the 20th century to today. Since the end of the 19th century due to industrialization and rapid technological progress mankind has been confronted with new problems and possibilities. Visionary architects and artists motivated by contemporary problems including housing shortages urban decay and pollution set about to create changes in our ways of living that challenged conventional concepts of the good the true and the beautiful. Great Expectations introduces us to the most significant architectural movements and personalities of the 20th century including among many others Le Corbusier's functionalist cities Buckminster Fuller's lightweight geodesic domes Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 prefab apartments Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum and other anthroposophy buildings in Switzerland Oscar Niemeyer's sleek urban designs for Brasilia Paolo Soleri's archology of crystal-like desert cities Antti Lovag's curved surfaces of Palais Bulles in France Jacque Fresco's utopian Venus Project in Florida and Peter Cook and Colin Fournier's biomorphic Kunsthaus Graz in Austria. Using archival and contemporary footage animation and interviews Great Expectations tells the fascinating story of these grand architectural visions both realized and unrealized as explained by great thinkers with revolutionary if not always successful ideas.

• Trivial Pursuit | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (-0.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The world's favourite trivia game totally on DVD!

• The World's Biggest Airliner | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Follow a team of leading engineers and aircraft designers as they race against the clock to complete construction of the world's largest airplane. The Airbus A380 is scheduled for its maiden flight in less than 12 months and the team in Toulouse France knows the entire world will be watching. Delays creep in but the day for revealing the plane to the world is now set. The press is waiting. Heads of state major airlines and 10 000 VIPs are just about to arrive in Toulouse. But will the A380 be ready?

• The Plague | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £13.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It began like the common cold. Then came fever, baseball-sized black swellings on the neck, and coughing up blood. Few infected lived more than two days. In the three years since it first struck in 1437, almost half of Europe's population died within three years. The Plague visits the rat-infested holds of the ships that brought death and disease, witness the terror that swept through towns, and walks with religious flagellants. Hear the actual words of the victims, taken from diaries and journals. From the Pope's palace to the humble huts of medieval peasants, watch as people live and die in the unforgiving grip of fear and death, and wonder how we would act if such a terrible event happened today.

• Maradona | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £5.74   |  Saving you £10.25 (64.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Maradona

• The Crash Reel | DVD | (09/12/2013) from £10.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (63.69%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Film-maker Lucy Walker's documentary about snowboarder Kevin Pearce and his fight back from a career-threatening injury. Spurred on to try out ever more intricate manoeuvres by his fierce rivalry with Shaun White in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics, Kevin Pearce is left with a life-threatening brain injury when he suffers a training accident at Park City, Utah, in 2009. Determined to help him through the tortuous recovery period, Kevin's family wastes no time in rallying round to help h...

• Iceland - 63° 66° N BD | Blu Ray | (12/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Shabby Tiger: Complete Series | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nick Faunt is a Manchester millionaire''s son who at the height of the Depression leaves home to become an artist embracing a life of bohemian freedom but also of poverty and hardship. When he meets Irish serving girl Anna Fitzgerald in the Cheshire countryside a strange love story begins... This seven-part Granada Television adaptation of Howard Spring''s best-selling novel originally transmitted in 1973 features RSC player John Nolan as Nick and Prunella Gee as Anna; Sharon Maughan makes her TV debut as the other woman in Nick''s life the glamorous and ambitious Rachel Rosing. While Coronation Street contributors Geoffrey Lancashire and Adele Rose wrote the screenplays the series'' brilliantly authentic 1930s street scenes were achieved with the construction of replicas of Manchester''s landmarks at the National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire.

• Look at Life - Volume 4: Sport | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £7.98   |  Saving you £22.01 (275.82%)   |  RRP £29.99

  42 digitally restored films from the landmark documentary series. Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced in the 1960s by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas - replacing the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become largely irrelevant with the advent of television news broadcasts. Marvellously concise and beautifully shot, these colour featurettes numbering over 500 in total presented cinemagoers with varied aspects of contemporary life in Britain and beyond. Digitally restored from the original film elements, this volume presents 42 films, many of which have remained unseen since their first screening, with subjects ranging from Scotland's burgeoning winter sports business to the Grand National, from mountaineering on the Matterhorn to the drama of Saturday football fever 1960s-style.

• The Knights Templar | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Real Story of Europe's Greatest Warrior Monks. They wielded a double-edged sword combining military might and impressive financial power. The Pope himself couldn't escape their long shadow and the whispers about a secret treasure which as said to include the Holy Grail and The Ark of the Covenant. So who - or what - brought down the mighty Knights Templar? This is the story of an organization extinct for nearly seven centuries but whose legacy still echoes through some of to

• Suddenly Last Winter | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A couple engage in discussions with people on the street politicians and religious leaders about the discrimination against gays and lesbians in Italy.

• Yorkshire Steam | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £5.64   |  Saving you £26.35 (467.20%)   |  RRP £31.99

  Join the staff and volunteers of Britain's most popular Heritage Railway for a year on the line with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. With spectacular aerial photography Yorkshire Steam is a glorious celebration of beautiful scenery memorable characters and an unforgettable railway.

• Casuals | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The DVD includes an introduction and analysis by the infamous Cass Pennant ( Author of Congratulations you have just met the ICF).This Documentary covers the legendary terrace fashion across the last 40 yrs which has left a lasting legacy, this film strips away the myth and gives you the real story of an often overlooked casual movement that birthed in cities like Liverpool, Manchester and London.What did they stand for? Why did they fight? What made them tick? All make for a story that needs to be told in depth. That is exactly what this film does.Using recently unearthed footage from the 70s & 80s, rarely seen interviews with personalities who were at the heart of the story at the time, this is their story.It also includes DVD extras of interviews of the time with Cardiff's Soul Crew, Leicester City's Baby Squad & Portsmouth legendary 657 Crew.