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• British Transport Films Collection - Vol. 3 - Running A Railway | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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 (1952): The true story of a Yorkshire farmer who decided to sell his land and move his entire stock - cattle pigs and poultry machinery ploughs and tractors - south to Sussex by rail in December on what was the coldest night of the year. I Am A Litter Basket (1959): Every day the people who use railway stations drop hundreds of tons of litter all over the place while me and my mates have to stand by empty and starving. Until one day we get so desperate we go foraging for ourselves. And what happens? Take a look at this film. It makes me weep to think of it. I nearly gave up all hope until - but wait and see! Modelling for the Future (1961) Visions of an earlier Channel Tunnel scheme and a model of the proposed terminal. This film demonstrates a range of facilities and shows the possibilities of an age-old dream - a dry land crossing between England and France. The Third Sam (1962) - Sam Smith is taught to drive an electric locomotive. He learns the new job without difficulty but one day his train breaks down and Sam summons up three sides of his character to deal with the emergency. With narration in typical rhyming monologue by Stanley Holloway this is an original and amusing approach to instructional filmmaking. E For Experimental (1975): An account of the development of British Rail's experimental Advanced Passenger Train (APT) The film explains in simple terms some of the many novel design features of the APT including the tilt mechanism and the hydro-kinetic brake and shows the train in action during its trials. All these films are now preserved in the bfi National Film and Television Archive. The DVDs are a 'must' not only for the transport enthusiast but also for anyone who enjoys historical documentary films. A booklet containing an introduction and film notes by BTF historian Steven Foxon accompanies the discs.

• Fringe - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £50.00 (500.50%)   |  RRP £59.99

  From J.J. Abrams (Lost) Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman - the team that brought you Star Trek Mission Impossible: III and Alias - and executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Bryan Burk comes a new drama that will thrill terrify and explore the blurring line between science fiction and reality. When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate. When the search nearly kills her partner Special Agent John Scott a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: He's been institutionalized for the last 20 years and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son Peter (Joshua Jackson) in to help. Under Special Agent Phillip Broyles our trio will discover that what happened on that fatal flight is only a small piece of a larger more shocking truth.

• Northern Exposure - Series 5 - Complete | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The complete fifth season of Northern Exposure. Episodes Comprise: 1. Three Doctors 2. The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop 3. Jaws of Life 4. Altered Egos 5. A River Doesn't Run Through It 6. Birds of a Feather 7. Rosebud 8. Heal Thyself 9. A Cup of Joe 10. First Snow 11. Baby Blues 12. Mr. Sandman 13. Mite Makes Right 14. A Bolt from the Blue 15. Hello I Love You 16. Northern Hospitality 17. Una Volta in L'Inverno 18. Fish Story 19. The Gift of Maggie 20. A Wing and a Prayer 21. I Feel the Earth Move 22. Grand Prix 23. Blood Ties 24. Lovers and Madmen

• Nanking Massacre | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nanking tells the story of the rape of Nanking one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937 the invading Japanese army murdered over 200 000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of the horror a small group of Western expatriates banded together to save 250 000 -- an act of extraordinary heroism. Bringing an event little-known outside of Asia to a global audience Nanking shows the tremendous impact individuals can make on the course of history. It is a gripping account of light in the darkest of times.

• Doctor Who - Series 10 Part 1 | Blu Ray | (29/05/2017) from £9.64   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Peter Capaldi returns as Doctor Who for twelve thrilling adventures. He is joined by new companion, Bill (played by Pearl Mackie), along with returning loveable alien, Nardole (played by Matt Lucas). This first volume contains the opening 6 episodes of the new series, as well as 6 exclusive Series 10 art-cards.

• Hoodlum | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hoodlum, Bill Duke's interesting but flawed blaxploitation take on the classic gangster movie, usefully redresses a balance. It is all too easy to see the criminal underworld of the 1920s as an all-white affair, in which Harlem is an exotic locale where occasionally white gangsters patronise the black performers of the Cotton Club, from which black audiences were specifically barred. Yet one of the principal sources of illegal revenue was the numbers racket in Harlem--gambling on stock market closing figures--revenue on which the likes of Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano were keen to lay their hands. Lawrence Fishburne is an impressive "Bumpy" Johnson, the street enforcer turned strategist for the matriarchal Queen (Cicely Tyson), gradually learning a ruthlessness that forfeits him the love of a good woman, Francine (Vanessa Williams). Tim Roth as Schultz and Andy Garcia as Luciano are essentially melodramatic turns--the foul-mouthed punk and the reptilian smoothy--and both turn in enjoyably full-blooded unsubtle performances. --Roz Kaveney

• Dockers | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dockers is a landmark one-off drama suspended somewhere between Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff. A striking Channel Four production Dockers dramatises the infamous struggle that developed when five Merseyside dockworkers were fired for refusing to work overtime with no pay, and gained the support of co-workers who wouldn't cross their picket line. As a result, those who stood in solidarity with the original five were sacked as well--500 in total--leading to a two-year stand-off. Co-written by award-winning screenwriters Jimmy McGovern (Cracker) and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), the two-year ordeal is brought home with startling reality, not least because of the contribution of the real-life Liverpool dockers who helped develop the script in extensive writing workshops, lending the film an authenticity it might have otherwise lacked. While the narrative hangs around the moving central story of one family in which both father and son are caught up in the strike, dramatic conflicts develop on multiple levels: between father and son; between the families of the sacked workers (this is particularly well realised as one long-time friend, played by The Royle Family's Ricky Tomlinson, turns scab); and between the workers and the union that betrays them. Ken Stott and Crissy Rock (Ladybird, Ladybird) are outstanding as the central working-class couple, old before their time at 47, and if nothing else, the film reveals one further reason why Liverpool loved Robbie Fowler quite so ferociously: during post-goal celebrations, Fowler lifts his jersey to reveal a T-shirt emblazoned with a message of support for the wronged dockers, ensuring national attention for the action at a time when all hope seemed lost. --Tricia Tuttle

• Mrs Thursday - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (01/04/2013) from £20.69   |  Saving you £19.30 (93.28%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Kathleen Harrison, one of Britain's best-loved character actresses, stars in this ratings-topping comedy-drama devised by Dixon of Dock Green creator Ted Willis. Featuring scripts by the celebrated dramatist Jack Rosenthal, this set contains the complete first series. Cheerful charlady Alice Thursday worked tirelessly for tycoon George Dunrich until the day he died. Now, she learns that she's inherited control of her late employer's multi-million pound corporation - along with his Mayfair m...

• Pie In The Sky - Series 5 - Part 1 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After being shot on duty DI Crabbe decides to retires from the police force to set up his own restaurant 'Pie In The Sky'. While he would much rather be left to his own devices in the kitchen he is constantly called back on duty by his needy ex-boss Chief Constable Fisher (Malcolm Sinclair).

• Black Watch | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Smash-Hit internationally acclaimed play is now released on DVD. Staged by the National Theatre of Scotland around the world to rave reviews. Black Watch is an uncompromising hard-hitting look at events around the Iraq war through the eyes of the soldiers of Scotland's celebrated Black Watch regiment. A gripping study of war-torn Iraq and a potted history of the regiment which was amalgamated with other units in 2006 merge into a fast-pace emotional rollercoaster that never fails to move the audience. The play recently ran at London's Barbican Theatre and is soon to be off to New York for a repeat run due to popular demand.

• Gods And Monsters | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Oscar nominated Sir Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave star in an Oscar-winning tribute to the controversial life of an eccentric genius. He was the father of Frankenstein and his eerie images shocked the world. So did his private life. Director James Whale (Ian McKellen - Lord of The Rings X-Men) flew in the face of Hollywood convention and his glittering career became tarnished by scandal and sexual excess. Alone with only his loyal housekeeper (Lynn Redgrave - Shine) in his declining years and suffering from bad health his unusual friendship with hunky gardener Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser - The Mummy) started Tinseltown tongues wagging again. A riviting and poignant salute to a tragic pioneer of motion pictures Sir Ian McKellen gives the performance of a lifetime in this critically acclaimed masterpiece.

• Nearest And Dearest - Series 4 | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Comedy greats Jimmy Jewel and Hilda Baker star as Eli Pledge and his sister Nellie in the classic award-winning comedy Nearest and Dearest. Eli - an aging lothario - and Nellie - virtuous to the last but in possession of a wonderfully flexible grip on the English language - inherit clapped out condiment company Pledge's Purer Pickles from their father. Much hilarity ensues amongst the malaproprisms bolshie workforce and none-too-subtle double entendres as the siblings try their best to run a profitable company in spite of one another. Episodes Comprise: 1. A Price On Your Head 2. A Young Man's Fancy 3. When You've Got To Go 4. When Love Walks In 5. An Open-And-Shut Case

• Probable Cause | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Airline accident investigations from around the world.

• She-Ra - Princess Of Power - Secret Of The Sword | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.11

  She Ra: The Secret Of The Sword

• The Cockettes | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £7.09   |  Saving you £12.90 (181.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1969. San Francisco. Sexual Anarchy! Emerging at the end of the `60s The Cockettes were a theatrical troupe of assorted hippies drag queens and gay men who embraced the new drug-fuelled anti-establishment counterculture in San Francisco. Founded by the flamboyant `Hibiscus' they started out by doing improv musicals before the midnight film at the Palace Theatre. As their popularity grew so did the number of performers and the flamboyance of the events which continued into th

• British Transport Films Vol. 4 | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A fourth collection of films showing off Britain's wonderful heritage of archive films selected from the British Transport Films archive. Features: Work In Progress (1951) Wash And Brush Up (1953) A Place In The Team (1953) Service For Southend (1957) Diesel Train Ride (1959) Let's Go To Birmingham (1962) Reshaping British Railways (1963) Forward To First Principles (1966) Freight And A City (1966) Second Nature (1967) The New Tradition (1968) Plumb-Loco (1971) This Year By R

• Lewis - Series 1-3 - Complete | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £19.88   |  Saving you £50.11 (252.06%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Series 1: It's taken a long time for Kevin Whately to take centre stage in a detective drama, but Lewis proves it's been time well spent. Lewis, of course, was previously the sidekick to Inspector Morse, and that raised fair suspicions that this spin-off drama was a fairly unnecessary cash-in of sorts. But those suspicions have proven unfounded, and Lewis has emerged as one of the best new programmes to hit ITV in recent years. The format's not moved on a great deal since the heights of Inspector Morse, but in this case, that's no bad thing. The episodes in this set on the whole build slowly, and build up intelligently and with diligence. Occasionally there are moments where the pace slips a little too much, but that's more than overcome by the fact that the drama on offer here is so absorbing. It's all anchored, of course, by Whately's excellent portrayal of the lead character. Eminently watchable, and clearly wearing the clothes of a character that he knows completely, it's a smashing performance, and with the aid of an excellent supporting cast, Lewis develops into a real treat. Is it better than Morse? Well, that's far too early too call. But on this basis of this debut, Lewis certainly has the potential for as enduring a legacy. --Jon Foster Series 2: After the successful first standalone outing for the character, Kevin Whately returns to the title role of Lewis again, for a second full season of investigations. And things seem, to the benefit of the viewer, just as dangerous as they always were. This series of Lewis is set five years after the death of Inspector Morse (to whom Lewis was, of course, the sidekick), and while the gap left behind by the late, great John Thaw is occasionally felt, this is still very much quality drama in its own right. Thus, this series finds the detective in his familiar Oxford stomping ground. Accompanied by Laurence Fox’s DS Hathaway, a collection of well-written, compelling mysteries are waiting to be solved. The series' investigations cover the discovery of a body in a library through to the world of underground boxing and a rape case that brings out the worst in the Oxford establishment. And there aren't any weak links here: each episode is involving, intelligent and a gripping watch. Even at its worst, Lewis is very good television drama. What’s more, Whately is terrific in the increasingly complex central role, and the scripts continue to allow him to flesh out the character. Lewis is, in many ways, a flawed man, and as he works his way through the layered and involving cases, this becomes ever-more obvious. And the programme is all the better for it. For in spite of some cynicism when it first announced that a standalone Lewis programme was being produced, there’s ample here to silence the most sceptical of naysayers. For Lewis is, simply, very strong television. --Jon Foster Series 3: What could have been an ill-advised spin-off continues to excel as Lewis arrives at its third series. Firmly stepping out of the shadows of Inspector Morse, Kevin Whately as Inspector Lewis once more is solving murders and mysteries in Oxford. And again, he's joined by Laurence Fox as DS Hathway, his partner in crime-solving. And Lewis gives the pair some interesting scenarios to get their teeth into. There are four feature-length stories in total, and things get started when a Czech barmaid is discovered, having being slashed to death. There's, as you'd expect, more to the crime than immediately meets the eye, and that convention continues in the following episode, where a student Shakespearian production abruptly ends after one of the cast is stabbed with a prop knife. We also get to meet, before the series ends, a rock star towards the end of his career, in what proves to be a terrific episode to close the series. To reveal any more significant plot points of Lewis would be to spoil half the fun. What this third series retains though is the kind of diligent, well-produced drama that its predecessor was. And in Whately, it has a lead actor who studiously inhabits his role, and ensures that the name of Inspector Lewis is another to add to the British detective hall of fame. Very strong drama, and it's just getting better. --Jon Foster

• British Transport Films Collection | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948 the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit which became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain. This 18-disc box set features all 9 volumes of the BFI's celebrated British Transport Films Collection and illustrates the wide range of subjects the BTF covered. Included here are travel classics such as Terminus Blue Pullman and John Betjemen Goes By Train. Each film has been remastered from the finest quality materials available.

• The Simpsons - Season 7 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The complete seventh season of The Simpsons where you can finally unearth who was behind the shooting of the nefarious Mr Burns! Episodes Comprise: 1. Who Shot Mr Burns? (Part 2) 2. Radioactive Man 3. Home Sweet Home-Dum-Diddly-Doodly 4. Bart Sells His Soul 5. Lisa The Vegetarian 6. Treehouse Of Horror VI 7. King-Size Homer 8. Mother Simpson 9. Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming 10. The Simpsons' 138th Show Spectacular 11. Marge Be Not Proud 12. Team Homer 13. Two Bad Neighbours 14. Scenes From A Class Struggle In Springfield 15. Bart The Fink 16. Lisa The Iconoclast 17. Homer The Smithers 18. The Day The Violence Died 19. A Fish Called Selma 20. Bart On The Road 21. 22 Short Films About Springfield 22. Raging Abe Simpson And His Grumbling Grandson In The Curse of the Flying Hellfish 23. Much Apu About Nothing 24. Homerpalooza 25. Summer Of 4'2

• Miami Vice | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £8.64   |  Saving you £1.35 (13.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  1: Pilot Sonny Crockett an undercover cop for the Miami Vice Department and Ricardo Tubbs a New York street cop unwillingly team up to apprehend a Columbian cocaine smuggler in this pilot episode. 2: The Golden Triangle Crockett and Tubbs' assignment as hotel security turns out to be more than just routine when a drugs-related hit leads to a side of Lt. Castillo they've never seen before. 3: The Golden Triangle Part 2 Lt. Castillo must find a way to catch General Lao Li with enough evidence to send him to prison but without endangering My Ying's life who was brought to Miami by Lao Li as a hostage to protect himself from Castillo.