Natural History

• March of the Penguins - Luc Jacquet | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £4.43   |  Saving you £14.56 (328.67%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This amazing documentary follows the annual journey of Antarctic Emperor penguins.

• Inside Nature's Giants | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The award-winning series that gets under the skin of the largest animals on the planet. Most wildlife documentaries show how animals behave but by exploring their anatomy Inside Nature's Giants reveals how these creatures really work.

• Life of Mammals | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  David Attenborough and the BBC have a well-earned reputation for producing some of the greatest nature programmes, but The Life of Mammals could well be Attenborough's magnum opus. Much of the footage shot for this series had never been seen before, and is presented with the respect and reverence for the natural world that Attenborough has made his trademark. It never ceases to surprise: the sight of a lion taking down a wildebeest on the African savannah has almost become a cliché of nature programmes, yet in The Life of Mammals the cameras keep rolling and the viewer witnesses the fallen animal's herd coming to its rescue and driving off the lion. It's a moving sight and just one of many remarkable scenes. A thorough and entertaining overview of one of evolution's greatest success stories, the series is loosely structured to follow the development of mammals, beginning with the basics in "A Winning Design", which clarifies what makes a mammal different from reptiles and birds--no, it isn't egg-laying: both the platypus and the echidna are egg-laying mammals; it's their ability to adapt. And it's this adaptability that becomes the crux of the remainder of the series. "Insect Hunters" focuses on mammals who have specifically adapted to eating insects, from the giant anteater and the armoured armadillo to bats, which have evolved into complex and effective hunters. "Plant Predators" demonstrates the particular (and often peculiar) adaptations of herbivores, while "Chisellers" is about those mammals who feed primarily on roots and seeds, ranging from tree-dwelling squirrels to opportunistic mice and rats. "Meat Eaters" talks about the evolutionary arms race that exists between predators and prey, and the unique adaptations of both individual and pack hunters. Omnivores are explored in "Opportunists"--mammals like bears and raccoons, whose varied diet allows them to occupy nearly any environment. "Return to the Water" discusses those mammals such as whales, seals and dolphins that have left behind life on dry land and adapted completely to life in the sea, existing at the top of the food chain. The last three episodes--"Life in the Trees", "Social Climbers" and "Food for Thought"--take the viewer through the development of primates, eventually culminating in that most successful mammal: man. --Robert Burrow

• Wild Down Under | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £9.32   |  Saving you £10.67 (114.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wild Down Under' is the BBC's key natural history series this Autumn presenting an astonishing mix of the surprising and the deadly. Narrated by Matt Day each episode is a detective story delving into Australasia's hidden secrets to explain why it is one of the world's truly great melting pots for both people and wildlife. It is home to giant birds that can't fly and possums that do; platypuses that detect food by electricity; plus many more fascinating creatures.

• Wild Britain with Ray Mears | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wild Britain With Ray Mears

• A Lion Called Christian | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Documentary telling the story of John Rendall and Ace Bourke who bought a lion cub from Harrods in 1969 before hand-rearing the animal at their club on the Kings Road in Chelsea. After the pair met Virginia McKenna of Born Free in 1971 they flew to Kenya to release the lion whom they named Christian into the wild.

• Safari 3D (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (12/12/2011) from £4.39   |  Saving you £15.60 (355.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring jaw-dropping 3D cinematography, stirring original music, and Africa's original rock star animals, Emmy Award-winning host Hunter Ellis takes viewers on an unforgettable safari that puts them up-close and personal with the wonders of Africa. With Hunter as your very own personal safari guide, you will run with a herd of graceful gazelles, travel in a hot air balloon to soar with high-flying birds, cross the wide-open plains in an elusive hunt to track down the nearly extinct African black rhino, and scramble up a steep mountain in the rain to meet a pack of gorillas in the mist.

• Safari 3D | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £3.29   |  Saving you £11.70 (78.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Featuring jaw-dropping HD/3D cinematography, stirring original music, and Africa’s original rock star animals, Emmy Award-winning host Hunter Ellis takes viewers on an unforgettable safari that puts them up-close and personal with the wonders of Africa. With Hunter as your very own personal safari guide, you will run with a herd of graceful gazelles, travel in a hot air balloon to soar with high-flying birds, cross the wide-open plains in an elusive hunt to track down the nearly extinct African black rhino, and scramble up a steep mountain in the rain to meet a pack of gorillas in the mist.

• The Moaning of Life | Blu Ray | (18/11/2013) from £4.80   |  Saving you £20.19 (420.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Now Karl's turned 40 and has officially hit middle age it's time for him to re-assess his life. He's not married he doesn't have kids he's got a job where he's known as an 'idiot' and he's known for being miserable. He's classic 'mid-life crisis' material. As Karl attempts to put his life in order he'll be dispatched around the world on a crash course to find out how other cultures deal with life's big questions. The ups and downs of Karl's experiences will be contrasted against the beautiful geography of the countries he visits captured on HD with stunning aerial photography.

• Earth: The Power of the Planet | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £8.61   |  Saving you £11.38 (132.17%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This landmark series uses specialist imaging and compelling narrative to tell the life story of our planet how it works and what makes it so special. Examining the great forces that shape the Earth - volcanoes the ocean the atmosphere and ice - the programme explores their central roles in our planet's story. How do these forces affect the Earth's landscape its climate and its history? CGI gives the audience a ringside seat at these great events while the final episode brings together all the themes of the series and argues that Earth is an exceptionally rare kind of planet - giving us a special responsibility to look after our unique world. This is a series that shows the Earth in new and surprising ways. Extensive use of satellite imagery reveals new views of our planet while timelapse filmed over many months brings the planet to life. Offering a balance between dramatic visuals and illuminating facts this ground-breaking series makes global science truly compelling.

• River Monsters | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £8.69   |  Saving you £16.30 (187.57%)   |  RRP £24.99

  River Monsters (2 Discs)

• Born Survivor: Bear Grylls | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Born Survivor follows British Mountaineer and adventurer Bear Grylls into some of the world's most inhospitable places. Bear reveals the fundamental survival skills needed to get out alive as he attempts to find his way back to civilisation! Namibia Bear attempts to make it through a week of challenges in a place where most people wouldn't last a day: Namibia one of the hottest driest emptiest places in the world. Bear is dropped off on the treacherous Skeleton Coast and immediatley begins his quest for water as he battles searing heat and dehydration. On his journey Bear encounters a deadly puff adder climbs to the top of Brandberg Mountain and joins the San Bushman the ultimate masters of survival on a hunt for a San delicacy: porcupines. Zambia Northeast of Namibia's desert wilderness Zambia couldn't be more of a contrast. Lush and green it's home to one of the deadliest rivers in the world. Bear heads straight to a Zambezi river that is fit to burst. Armed with no more than a body board our hero plunges himself directly towards its killer rapids. This epic journey also sees Bear fishing for food in hippo and crocodile infested waters a truly incredible elephant encounter and a meal of giant bugs - all in the name of survival.

• Discovery Channel: Nasa's Grea | Blu Ray | (14/03/2009) from £14.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (100.07%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Since the dawn of mankind we have stared up at the lights in the sky and wondered... Now join the heroic men and women of NASA who have dared the impossible on some of the greatest adventures ever undertaken the quest to reach out beyond Earth and into the great unknown of space! Discovery Channel has collaborated with NASA to reveal the epic struggles tragedies and triumphs in a bold chapter of human history.

• India With Sanjeev Bhasker | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £6.01   |  Saving you £6.98 (116.14%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Over the past 60 years India has changed more rapidly than any other nation on the planet. In fields as diverse as agriculture medical research and information technology India already leads the world. Sanjeev Bhaskar's quest is to get under the skin of modern India and his journey takes him from the deserts of Rajasthan to the lush tea plantations of Darjeeling high into the Himalayas along the course of the holy river Ganges and across the border to Pakistan on a mission to find the ancestral homeland that his family left behind. This upbeat adventure is set against the backdrop of a country without visual equal.

• The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  During a period of over 40 years Jacques Cousteau crossed the world many times over in their ships the Calypso and the Alcyone filming the undersea world as never seen before to create a unique collection of entertaining and informative films for the whole family. Since 1943 when he and Emile Gagnan developed the first regulated compressed-air breathing device for deep sea diving (the Aqualung) until his death in 1997 Captain Cousteau was a leading spokesman for the protection of

• Wonders Of The Solar System | Blu Ray | (12/04/2010) from £9.19   |  Saving you £10.80 (117.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Prepare to immerse yourself in an alien world as if you were standing there yourself. Professor Brian Cox takes another giant leap for humankind as images of distant alien worlds are brought into breathtaking focus. Giant ice fountains rising over 100km high; an ocean hidden beneath a frozen crust of ice; storms three times the size of Earth coloured blood red by a vortex of dust and gases; immense volcanoes that would put Mount Everest in the shade - this amazing DVD reveals the true and awesome beauty of our solar system. It's an epic journey of discovery where bizarre worlds become real places we can see feel and visit. Travelling from the Sun to the far-out reaches of Neptune Wonders of the Solar System has at its heart the latest scientific knowledge beamed back from the fleet of probes rovers and telescopes currently in space. Using the very latest images sent direct from space and spectacular CGI the series presents a spellbinding voyage around the natural wonders of the solar system capturing explosive phenomena in minute detail. Alongside these startlingly authentic images some of the most spectacular extreme locations on Earth help to reveal wonders never thought possible. Wonders of The World explores how these previously unseen phenomena have dramatically expanded our horizons revealing more about the planets their moons and how they came to be the way they are. The series also looks at the big picture - how the forces of nature carved out beauty and order from the chaos of space; how our home planet doesn't sit in magnificent isolation but is intimately connected with the rest of the Solar System; and how these connections have created the haven we call Earth.

• Space | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £12.04   |  Saving you £7.95 (39.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Space is a visually impressive six-part popular science series from the BBC that follows their runaway successes Walking with Dinosaurs and The Planets into the realm of lavish computer animation. In a stroke of inspired casting Jurassic Park's Sam Neill (no stranger to acting alongside CGI effects) is our earthbound anchor, and he takes the viewer on journeys across the universe in each half-hour segment, thanks to some nifty special effects. Like Carl Sagan's pioneering Cosmos from 1980, Space delves in to the mysteries of how stars and planets were created; but unlike Sagan's visionary and optimistic view of cosmic wonders, Space is astronomy for the Age of Anxiety, revealing with terrifying clarity and in graphic detail how fortunate we are to exist at all, and how it could all end at any moment as a result of space-bound monsters like rogue comets and asteroids that might crash into our planet; or, the worst horror of the universe, wandering black holes that could tear our sun apart. Even if we survive these implacable cosmic forces bent on our destruction, viewers will not be reassured to be told that the sun is doomed anyway, and its inevitable death will swallow our planet whole (but not before burning it to a crisp first). Finally, the series finds cause for faint optimism with Star Trek-style speculations on the development of Ion-drive and solar-powered spaceships, terraforming new worlds and wormhole technology that might, just might, allow humanity to escape from a doomed Earth and seek refuge somewhere else in the galaxy. A series that sheds light on both the secrets of the universe and, implicitly, the anxious state of our new millennial society, Space is a compelling combination of popular astronomy and really, really scary cosmology. The handsomely illustrated companion book is lucidly written by astronomer John Gribbin. --Mark Walker

• Sesame Street - Old School Volume 3 | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Founded in 1969 Sesame Street changed television forever. In countries across the globe Sesame Street reaches children and adults in a powerful and vibrant way using localised content characters and sets all delivered with Sesame fun fur and silliness.

• Wildlife Special | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £34.13   |  Saving you £-9.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Wildlife Specials Box Set

• Eyewitness Interactive - Prehistoric | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £4.75   |  Saving you £5.24 (110.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This astonishing series of DVDs harnesses the full power of interactive entertainment. Easy to use digital software frees you to navigate through extraordinary BBC - Dorling Kindersley film and state-of-the-art computer graphics. Time Travel through four and a half Billion years. Encounter the first creature with eyes or discover how fish crawled onto land. Meet Dunkleosteus - prehistoric 'Jaws' or Lucy - half ape half woman!