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Ray Mears - Bushcraft - Series 1

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Publisher: Woodlore Ltd
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Release Date: 04 April 2005

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Ray Mears has become a household name over the past few years with his BBC TV series 'Ray Mears World Of Survival' 'Ray Mears Extreme Survival' and 'Trips Money Can't Buy' with Ewan McGregor. Although most of us know Ray as the World greatest Survival Expert he prefers to call his subject 'Bushcraft'. So what is Bushcraft? Ray explains: ""For most of my life I've been studying a subject called...

British Transport Films Collection - Vol. 3 - Running A Railway

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Publisher: Bfi Video Publishing
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Release Date: 29 May 2006

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Running a Railway is the third release in bfi Video's digitally re-mastered double-disc DVD series of British Transport Films combining favourites from the much loved and best-selling video series with additional material. This new collection contains four hours of footage including the multi-award-winning Terminus directed by John Schlesinger. Among these rare gems are: Farmer Moving South...

The Nazis - A Warning From History

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Publisher: BBC
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Release Date: 24 May 2004

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Combining unseen archive footage and a wealth of interview material with "ordinary" people who witnessed or even participated in Hitler's reign, this eight part 1997 documentary brought fresh light to bear on the rise and fall of The Third Reich. Inevitably, the episode dealing with the Holocaust immobilises the viewer in its harrowing detail and a further blow against that rump of humanity who...

Monarchy - Series 2

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Publisher: Channel 4 DVD
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Release Date: 20 November 2006

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Dr. David Starkey continues his epic journey through the history of the British monarchy.

Ancient Rome

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Publisher: Pinnacle Vision
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Release Date: 29 October 2007

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The dramatic rise and fall of history's most powerful empire! The latest archaeological research and stunning visual effects combine to reveal the secrets of Rome the greatest city of antiquity.

On And Off The Rails - The British Transport Films Collection - Vol. 1

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Publisher: Bfi Video Publishing
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Release Date: 27 June 2005

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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.

Seven Wonders Of The Industrial World

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Publisher: Acorn Media UK Ltd
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Release Date: 27 December 2004

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Seven Wonders Of The Industrial World uncovers the truth behind the epic monuments of the Industrial Revolution from Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 'great ship' the SS Great Eastern to the Panama Canal that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans more than half a century later. These are stories driven by burning ambition extravagent dreams passion and rivalry of great minds. Each film uses dramatic...

British Transport Films Collection - Vol. 2 - See Britain By Train

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Publisher: Bfi Video Publishing
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Release Date: 28 November 2005

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Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948 the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production and distribution unit headed by Egar Anstey OBE one of the pioneers of British documentary films. The unit produced hundreds of travelogues promoting travel on Britain's railways and other forms of transport. Consistently winning top awards at film festivals including an...

The Lost World Of Mitchell And Kenyon

Directors: James Kenyon
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Publisher: Bfi Video Publishing
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Release Date: 31 January 2005

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Footage discovered and restored by the British Film Institute. Between 1900-1913 filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed the country filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. Discovered some seventy years later the film boasts a world exclusive: the first ever film footage of Manchester United. Episode 1 - Life And Times: The first episode covers the history of the...

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Complete Set

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Publisher: Eureka
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Release Date: 22 September 2008

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Shun your Shakespeare chuck away your Chaucer destroy your DVDs of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle! You've got to make shelf space for the complete box set of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. Never has so much fun and lunacy been crammed into one small cardboard container. If you tried to squeeze in even one more tiny joke it would squash the others so badly they'd jump out and run home crying to their...

Around The World In 80 Days

Directors: Roger Mills
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Publisher: BBC
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Release Date: 22 September 2003

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In 1989 Michael Palin recreated the famous voyage made in 1873 by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's epic Around the World in 80 Days. This 10-part (eight-hour) BBC documentary featured Palin and his passepartout using only the modes of transport available to the novelist's intrepid traveller. Hiring Palin was the masterstroke that ensured the series became a television milestone; despite being one of...

First World War - The Complete Series

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Publisher: Dd Home Entertainment
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Release Date: 05 April 2004

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This documentary attempts to highlight and explain the tactics and strategies employed in the conflict and is both revisionist and traditional in it's interpretation of events. With clever use of letters some previously unseen photographs and diaries of the time the viewer is taken back to the exact time of the war. Thus making this extremely interesting to anyone interested in Military history...