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• The Sixties | DVD | (10/12/2018) from £20.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Executive produced by multiple EMMY Award-winning producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (HBO's John Adams and The Pacific), and EMMY Award-winning producer Mark Herzog (History's Gettysburg), The Sixties explores the most transformative decade of the modern era in America. The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural and social liberation. The events of that tumultuous ten-year period reshaped America to such an extent that it still remains an epoch of fascination today and, every step of the way, television helped frame and enable that change. Looking through the lens of television, The Sixties weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960's in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating. Featuring unique perspectives and rare, original footage, The Sixties will not just re-examine the familiar ... it will unearth the unknown. Features: The World on the Brink (1960-1963) The Assassination of President Kennedy (1963) The War in Vietnam (1964-1969) The British Invasion (1964-1969) The Times They are a-Changin' (1960-1969) The Space Race (1960-1969) Television Comes of Age (1960-1969) Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll (1960-1969) 1968 A Monumental Year (1968) A Long March to Freedom (1960-1969)

• The Seventies: The Complete Series | DVD | (31/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Produced by Emmyaward winning producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, The Seventies is the second series in the acclaimed documentary strand chronicling American society and popular culture in the later twentieth century. In many ways, the 1970s were as dramatic as the 1960s. America lost its first war and endured two energy crises, and a President resigned after an unprecedented political scandal. Television tackled once-taboo subjects, while in a decade of cultural diversity, popular music enjoyed a multi-genre explosion. There was a revolution in sexual mores and gender roles; serial killings and other violent crime kept the nation on edge, and bombing, hijacking and hostage-taking introduced the world to the modern face of terrorism. This epic series uses rare archival footage and interviews with renowned journalists, historians, musicians and television artists to paint a vivid and compelling portrait of a decade of lasting consequence. The United States v. Nixon A third rate burglary leads to the only presidential resignation in American history. Television Gets Real With increasingly sophisticated programming, television finds a new maturity. Peace with Honor The country begins to come to terms with the impact of the war in Vietnam. Terrorism: At Home and Abroad The birth and evolution of terrorism as we know it today. What's Goin' On Pop music explodes into new genres, as established artists find new creative voice. The State of the Union is Not Good America seems to go from bad to worse as the country careens from crisis to crisis. Battle of the Sexes America undergoes a seismic shift in sexual mores, customs and gender roles. Crimes and Cults An unprecedented wave of violent crime grips America.

• Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi ("life out of balance") and Powaqqatsi ("life in transformation") are the first two parts of a trilogy of experimental documentaries whose titles derive from Hopi compound nouns (2002's Naqoyqatsi, or "life in war", is the third). Both feature indispensable musical contributions from minimalist composer Philip Glass. Made in 1983, Koyaanisqatsi was shot mostly in the desert southwest USA and New York City on a tiny budget with no script. But it then attracted the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and reached a much wider audience. Its techniques, merging cinematographer Ron Fricke's time-lapse shots (alternately peripatetic and hyperspeed) with Glass' reiterative music (from the meditative to the orgiastic)--as well as its ecology minded imagery--crept into the consciousness of popular culture. The influence of Koyaanisqatsi has by now become unmistakable in television advertisements, music videos and, of course, similar movies. Dating from 1988, Powaqqatsi finds the director somewhat more directly polemical than before, with Glass's score stretching to embrace world music. Reggio reuses techniques familiar from the previous film (slow motion, time-lapse, superposition) to dramatise the effects of the so-called First World on the Third: displacement, pollution, alienation. But he spends as much time beautifully depicting what various cultures have lost--cooperative living, a sense of joy in labour and religious values--as he does confronting viewers with trains, airliners, coal cars and loneliness. What had been a more or less peaceful, slow-moving, spiritually fulfilling rural existence for these "silent" people (all we hear is music and sound effects) becomes a crowded, suffocating, accelerating industrial urban hell, from Peru to Pakistan. Reggio frames Powaqqatsi with a telling image: the Serra Pelada gold mines, where thousands of men, their clothes and skin imbued with the earth they're moving, carry wet bags up steep slopes in a Sisyphean effort to provide wealth for their employers. While Glass juxtaposes his strangely joyful music, which includes the voices of South American children, a number of these men carry one of their exhausted comrades out of the pit, his head back and arms outstretched--one more sacrifice to Caesar. Nevertheless, Reggio, a former member of the Christian Brothers, seems to maintain hope for renewal. --Robert Burns Neveldine

• The King | DVD | (01/10/2018) from £4.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki s new film takes the King s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American Dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans, both famous and non, join the journey, including Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Chuck D, Emmylou Harris, Ethan Hawke, Van Jones, Mike Myers, and Dan Rather, among many others.

• Johnny Cash - The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash - A Story Of Faith And Redemption | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tracklist: 1. Five Feet High And Rising (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 2. Belshazzar (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 3. I Was There When It Happened (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 4. God Has My Fortune Laid Away (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 5. He Turned Water Into Wine (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 6. Daddy Sang Bass (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 7. When The Saints Go Marching In (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 8. Man In Black (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 9. Gospel Road (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 10. Last Supper (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 11. Over The Next Hill We'll Be Home (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 12. Peace In The Valley (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 13. Why Me (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 14. The Old Rugged Cross (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 15. I'm Just An Old Chunk of Coal (Children Go Where I send Thee - Background) (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 16. One Of these Days I'm Gonna Sit Down And Talk to Paul (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 17. I Won't Have to Cross Jordan Alone (Return To The Promised Land - Background Track) (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 18. What On Earth (Will You Do For Heaven's Sake) (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 19. The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 20. Far Side Banks Of Jordan (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 21. The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 22. Precious Memories (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash) 23. Farther Along (Credits) (The Gospel Music Of Johnny Cash)

• The President's Book of Secrets | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £4.50   |  Saving you £5.49 (122.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  What secrets have been passed down to each United States president? History uncovers the fascinating truths behind some of the most confidential secrets in American history in The President's Book of Secrets. Interviews with former intelligence operatives, renowned historians and archivists show how classified information is treated in the highest circles of political power, how it's preserved throughout history, and who ensures continuity when a new leader is elected.

• Weapons Of Mass Deception | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-3.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Think you can trust the media? There were two wars in Iraq - a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the latter was not. Until now... Independent filmmaker Emmy-award winning TV journalist author and media critic Danny Schechter turns the cameras on the role of the media. His new film WMD is an outspoken assessment of how Pentagon propaganda and media complicity misled the American people while selling the war to influence international public opinion. Schechter compares and contrasts coverage on a global basis including exclusive material and insider interviews. WMD is a serious film that exposes the media role - the biggest scandal of our time