"Actor: Ian McKellan"

• National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | DVD | (09/03/2015) from £23.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A once in a lifetime gala performance and a two part Arena documentary celebrating the National Theatre’s 50th Anniversary From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The History Boys from Hamlet to Angels in America from Guys and Dolls to Bedroom Farce and from Warhorse to Jerry Springer the Opera - a thrilling evening of live performance and rare glimpses from the archive featuring many of the most celebrated actors who have performed on our stages over the past five decades and directed by Nicholas Hytner. A cast of 100 perform live on stage including Simon Russell Beale James Corden Dominic Cooper Benedict Cumberbatch Judi Dench Christopher Eccleston Ralph Fiennes Michael Gambon Derek Jacobi Alex Jennings Rory Kinnear Adrian Lester Helen Mirren Andrew Scott Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton plus so many more. 2 discs with over 5 hours of outstanding performances and history.

• Scandal (30th Anniversary Edition) (Dual Format) | Blu Ray | (24/02/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After becoming enchanted by a young exotic dancer, Christine Keeler (Joanne Whalley), an English doctor (John Hurt) invites her to live with him. Through his contacts and parties she and her friend (Bridget Fonda) meet and begin to date various members of the ruling Conservative Party. When Christine's affair with the Secretary of State for War John Profumo (Ian McKellan) goes public, scandal tears through the government and threatens the lifestyles and freedom of those involved. From producer Stephen Woolley and director Michael Caton-Jones (Rob Roy) this 30th Anniversary Edition is newly restored from original film materials. Special Features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition Worldwide Blu-ray debut Original theatrical trailer **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits Other extras TBC

• Theatreland | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £5.75   |  Saving you £10.24 (64.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Theatreland is the first ever observational documentary to look behind the scenes at one of London's premiere West End theatres. This programme follows the Theatre Royal Haymarket's busy daily life from the front of house team dealing with the public to the production teams backstage working to get a new production up and running along with all the dramas disasters and tantrums that can erupt behind the velvet curtain. Filming coincides with the arrival of new artistic director Sean Mathias and will include his first production Waiting for Godot - one of the most eagerly-awaited theatrical events of 2009 featuring three legends of stage and screen - Sir Ian McKellen Simon Callow and Patrick Stewart. Alongside this tale we will also be with Sean every step of the way as he begins to get to grips with his next exciting new production for TRH - the first-ever theatric adaptation of Truman Capote''s iconic tale of a girl in New York City - Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Anna Friel.

• The Prisoner | Blu Ray | (03/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Widely regarded as a fighting political commentary which is as relevant today as it was to people who saw it for the first time in 1967, "The Prisoner" continues to fascinate a whole new generation.

• Plenty | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £8.77   |  Saving you £4.22 (32.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She would settle for nothing less... Susan Traherne (Streep) has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants no matter who is hurt or how.

• The Prisoner Complete Series | DVD | (15/08/2013) from £26.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Internationally acclaimed actors Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel star in the reinvention of the 1960s classic cult thriller, The Prisoner out to own on DVD and Blu-ray on 3 May 2010 courtesy of ITV STUDIOS Home Entertainment.

• British Legends of Stage and Screen | DVD | (10/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the 1950s Britain emerged from the gloom of its post-war austerity and enjoyed an explosion of new, acting talent that was unique to this period of social upheaval. Gaining their experience through an established network of repertory theatres, RADA and the new National Theatre established by Sir Laurence Olivier at the Old Vic, many of those who would go on to become acting legends experienced their first exposure on stage and screen as part of the British Free Cinema movement. Now available in its entirety on DVD, this critically acclaimed television series features intimate hour-long, Face to Face interviews with the generation who redefined the experience of theatre, cinema and television for the British public. Each interview showcases memorable films and archive of the artists, interspersed with intimate reflections on their careers.

• Eighteen | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pip is a young street kid trying to deal with life in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives a tape of his grandfather's World War II memoirs which awakens the ghosts of a long lost time and place. His grandfather graphically narrates the story of the day he turned eighteen fleeing German forces through the woods of France with a dying comrade hanging on for life. Soon Pip finds that his own contemporary life story is beginning to parallel that of his grandfathers. He stumbles into an unlikely alliance with Clark a gay street hustler on the make and Jenny an aspiring social worker who tempts him emotionally. He also forges a relationship with a local priest in whom he confides his deepest darkest secrets: The death of his brother and the heinous act his father committed against him before his demise. Generations apart but both lost in their own environments at eighteen years of age Pip and his grandfather have a supernatural connection that surpasses time itself.