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• Leon the Pig Farmer | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hailed as "genre-breaking stuff" on its release in 1992, this is the tale of a London estate agent who find he's the son of a Yorkshire pig farmer.

• Wayne And Ford - The Collection | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  A collection of films celebrating the outstanding iconic collaboration of actor John Wayne and director John Ford. Films comprise: 1. Stagecoach (1939) 2. The Long Voyage Home (1940) 3. Fort Apache (1948) 4. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 5. Rio Grande (1951) 6. The Quiet Man (1952)

• The Further Adventures of the Musketeers | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £10.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (172.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Romance, action, betrayal, suspensethis timeless BBC adaptation of The Three Musketeers has it all. In 1620s France, the young, poor and unfailingly ambitious d'Artagnan (BAFTA-nominee Joss Ackland) leaves his humble village and treks to Paris on a quest to join the Musketeers of the Guard. At first, he's ridiculed, abused, and scornedbut after he impresses the three high-estesteemed musketeers in the land, they take him under their wing. With Porthos (Brian Blessed, Z Cars), Athos (Jeremy Young), and Aramis (John Woodvine) at his side, d'Artagnan sharpens his skills as a swordsman and, more often than not, is forced to put them to the test. The gang becomes entangled in a web of lies, love, violence and deceit among the French royalty, treacherous territory where even one wrong move could land them in prisonor worse. Over the course of ten thrilling, masterfully-crafted episodes, this series from the heyday of the BBC's classic Sunday serial (Telegraph) traces through Alexander Dumas' masterwork with stylebringing 17th century France to life in all its swashbuckling, chivalric, captivating glory.

• And A Nightingale Sang | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £7.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Adapted by celebrated screenwriter Jack Rosenthal (Coronation Street) from C. F. Taylor's acclaimed play of the same name, And a Nightingale Sang struck a chord with audiences when it first aired for its bittersweet, sharply observant and humorous portrait of working-class family life on the British Home Front during World War Two. Despite air raid sirens, gas masks, ration books and whistling bombs punctuating their everyday lives, the Stott family remain stoic as they focus on keeping life as normal as possible. Helen Stott is the family's sensible 30-year-old daughter: a kindly yet self-deprecating girl who walks with a limp, whose life so far has not been very kind to her. Surprised to find love during the chaos of war, she falls for gentle soldier Norman. However, the course of true love runs less than smoothly Starring Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey) as the pitiful Helen Stott, and Tom Watt (Eastenders) as the soldier who steals her heart. Helen's flirty younger sister Joyce is played by Pippa Hinchley (Coronation Street), who is attracted to every solider apart from her own husband (Stephen Tompkinson DCI Banks). John Woodvine (The Crown) also features as the Stott family's father, preferring to escape awkward family situations by banging out popular tunes on the piano than face conflict, and Oscar-nominee Joan Plowright (Enchanted April) as the devoutly Catholic family matriarch, who finds herself drawn to her priest. The DVD will also feature fascinating extras in the form of three real wartime public information films, giving insight into the unrivalled efforts on the British Home Front, from the Imperial War Museum: They Keep the Wheels Turning (1942), Britannia is a Woman (1940) and The New Britain (1940).

• The Weight Of Water | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A century old double murder haunts Jean a photographer who travels to the scene of the crime to investigate. The sole survivor of the slaughter was a woman whose unhappy marriage mirrors Jean's. Past and present collide when a cataclysmic storm burgeons into jealousy and suddenly it becomes clear to Jean who the real killer is...

• To The Limit | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  When Frank DaVinci's (Joey Travolta) wedding day turns into a massacre he finds himself in the middle of a war between rogue CIA agents and the underworld. The mysterious Collette (Anna Nicole Smith) has the key to unlock dangerous secrets but is she a trustworthy friend or a deadly enemy?

• Verdi-La Forza Del Destino | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Mad City | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Mad City is an earnest effort at media criticism that's never convincing enough to stir a viewer's outrage in the way filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Music Box) might have intended. John Travolta plays a barely educated museum guard who is laid off from his job and ends up holding his former boss (Blythe Danner) and a bunch of schoolchildren hostage. Dustin Hoffman is a former television-network journalist making a grab at the limelight again by pushing and controlling press coverage of the story. What follows is by the numbers and not nearly as enlightening or enthralling as other films (such as Dog Day Afternoon or Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole) about simple events manipulated into a media circus. Despite Travolta's tragic performance and Hoffman's impassioned one, the film breaks up over efforts to blame electronic voyeurism for social chaos. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Brunel's Great Britain | DVD | (01/04/2001) from £3.96   |  Saving you £6.03 (152.27%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Brunel was unqestionalby a genius yet many of the projects in which he was involved were dogged by bad luck. The SS Great Britain was no exception; nevertheless when launched in 1843 she was the largest and most advance ship afloat having all the features of a modern passenger liner. This detailed documentary details the long history of this famous vessel from 1843 to 1970 whereupon it was towed back to Brtain from the Falkland Islands...

• Crime Story - Series One | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Following the phenomenal success of Miami Vice executive producer Michael Mann returned to the small screen with a new kind of gritty police drama one that talked tougher and hit harder than anything TV had ever seen before. 'Crime Story' is the hard boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca (Anthony Dennison) from the mean street of early 1960s Chicago to the neon nights of mob paradise Las Vegas. The

• John Wayne - John Ford Collection - Stagecoach/Fort Apache/She Wore A Yellow Ribbon/Rio Grande/The Quiet Man | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Films Comprise: Stagecoach Fort Apache She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Rio Grande The Quiet Man

• And A Nightingale Sang | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in Newcastle towards the end of World War 2 this romantic drama chronicles the sacrifices made by a blue-collar woman and her family. This is the story of the Stotts an eccentric family waging their personal battles against the terrifying backdrop of Britain during WW2.

• Greatest Ever Classic Horror Collection | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This Box Set contains the following films: An American Werewolf In London Dracula Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The Thing The Relic

• The Tripods - Series 1 | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1984 and 1985, The Tripods was the show that the BBC used to fill its traditional Saturday teatime Doctor Who slot. Adapted from the first two books in John Christopher's "Tripods" trilogy, the show frustratingly failed to deliver the final story that winds everything up. This release collects the first series of 13 episodes, which covers the first book (The White Mountains). In 2089, the human race lives a peaceful, agrarian existence in post-technological communities under the rule of the Tripods, vast alien machines that look like the Martians from War of the Worlds. In a small English village, teenage cousins Will (John Shackley) and Henry (Will Baker) are troubled as they near the age at which they will be "capped", fitted by the local Tripod with a metallic hairnet which will turn them into docile, uncreative, happy servants of the invaders. A wily vagrant tells the boys that far to the south, a community of uncapped freemen resists the Tripods, and they set off on a 13-episode journey that takes them to the coast, across the English Channel and down through France, with stop-offs in the impressive ruins of Paris, at a medieval-style chateau and on a vineyard in the Jura. Along the way, the lads fall in with "Bean Pole" (Ceri Seel), a gangling, bespectacled French rebel who is fascinated with the lost arts of machine-making, but at each of their stopovers there are temptations, mostly in the forms of appealing French girls, to settle down and become happy conformists, but in the end they do join up with the rebels, ready for a mission to the city of the Tripods that comes in Series Two. With production values significantly higher than Doctor Who at that time, the show conserves its effects and makes them count, with the Tripods only rarely intervening directly. Watched at a sitting, it seems padded and the three lead actors are variable, but taken in single-episode chunks it works quite well, with a subtly unsettling depiction of a backward world where everyone seems happy but actually isn't and actual villainy comes as a relief amidst the overwhelming niceness. The English and French locations are very well used, and the production design and costuming (lots of hats to cover the "caps") is imaginative without being panto-like. --Kim Newman

• Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World - Samurai Japan | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Japanese history has been shrouded in mystery from mythical beginnings until it embraced modernism in the late 19th century. A nation of traditions and customs this DVD examines some of Ancient Japan's architecture the famous samurai code of Bushido the Tea Ceremony and also gives in depth background to the eminent Japanese dynasties. A people who were once identified for their fearsome warriors but are now perhaps better known for balance order and calm.

• Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World - The Celts | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £6.68   |  Saving you £3.31 (33.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Long buried treasures and newly discovered monuments have shed a new light on Celtic society. Classical writers condemned what they saw as a barbarian Celtic society - a lifestyle built around dark religious rituals bloody sacrifices feasting and savage fighting. However as revealed in this informative and entertaining DVD there also existed a rich and sophisticated element to Celtic culture.

• Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World - Ancient China | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Man has constructed many remarkable monuments but only one that can be seen clearly from outer space: the Great Wall Of China. It remains the most soaring architectural achievement of the Chinese people but is by no means the only one. The Terracotta Army Beijing's Forbidden City and the simple pagoda are all examined here and explained clearly using expert views (from Dr Wang Tao and Prof. Jessica Rawson) and impressive animation.

• Macbeth | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-6.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Andrea Gruber Roberto Aronica and Lado Ataneli star in Verdi's early operatic masterpiece Macbeth - filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in High-definition. EMI Classics continues its collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera with a new production of Verdi's richly haunting opera Macbeth as part of this season's 'Metropolitan Opera : Live in High-Definition series'. For the first time in 20-years the Metropolitan Opera presents the first of Verdi's three operas based on Shakespeare in a stylistically eclectic grimly effective and at times intriguingly playful production (New York Times) by English director Adrian Noble making his Met debut. At the time of composition Macbeth was unique. Not only was it considered both musically and dramatically bold but it was the first opera that can truly be described as Shakespearean. It was the first that altered operatic conventions to serve the play rather than converting the play into traditional operatic formulas. After 35 highly successful years as Music director of the Metropolitan Opera a relationship unparalleled and unique in the musical world today James Levine conducts Verdi's haunting score with tension and a type of brutality that this chilling work commands.

• Lost Treasures Of The Ancient World - Ancient India | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story of India is one of the fabulous dynasties of Kings timeless belief systems and golden ages of culture. This fascinating programme journeys through the centuries to demonstrate how glories such as the Taj Mahal and the Ajanta Caves reflect the character of a unique people. With the aid of state of the art graphics and animation experience a journey through and marvel at an ancient city in the Indus Valley that existed as early as the second millennium BC.

• Hoover Street Revival | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In an intimate tour of downtown LA, documentary maker Sophie Fiennes profiles charismatic preacher Bishop Noel Jones and his congregation.