With a mix of behind the scenes footage, interviews and archive footage, House of Flying Arrows traces the story of darts' humble beginnings, through its glamourous heyday in the 70s and 80s, professional upheaval and popular resurgence in the 90s right up to the present and the 2015 World Championships. Full of all the drama, excitement and outrageousness of the game, this will be a must-have for darts fans but also a great gift for any sports documentary fan. Featuring all the biggest names and personalities in the sport: Phil The Power Taylor, Michael Van Gerwen, Gary Anderson, Raymond Van Barneveld and more, as well as legends from the golden age including Eric Bristow, Barry George, Keith Deller and Bob Anderson and celebrity fans including Ronnie O'Sullivan, Alastair Cook and Will Greenwood.
Own the ground-breaking HBO series on Blu-ray for the very first time, and experience the friendships and fashion in gorgeous high-definition. Sex and the City stars Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, a New York-based writer who explores and experiences the unique world of Manhattan's dating scene, chronicling the mating habits of single New Yorkers. The series also stars cast regulars Kim Cattrall as PR executive Samantha Jones, who's seen -- and done -- it all; Kristin Davis as Charlotte York, still trying to hold on to the idea of happily ever after; and Cynthia Nixon as corporate lawyer and mother Miranda Hobbes, a pragmatist trying to balance the idea of love with the realities of life.
With a mix of behind the scenes footage, interviews and archive footage, House of Flying Arrows traces the story of darts' humble beginnings, through its glamourous heyday in the 70s and 80s, professional upheaval and popular resurgence in the 90s right up to the present and the 2015 World Championships. Full of all the drama, excitement and outrageousness of the game, this will be a must-have for darts fans but also a great gift for any sports documentary fan. Featuring all the biggest names and personalities in the sport: Phil The Power Taylor, Michael Van Gerwen, Gary Anderson, Raymond Van Barneveld and more, as well as legends from the golden age including Eric Bristow, Barry George, Keith Deller and Bob Anderson and celebrity fans including Ronnie O'Sullivan, Alastair Cook and Will Greenwood.
Explorer Paul Rose leads a team of ocean experts in a series of global science expeditions. With him maritime archaeologist Dr Lucy Blue investigates our past and our relationship with the sea exploring shipwrecks and lost civilisations; marine biologist and Oceanographer Tooni Mahto seeks the extraordinary life in our oceans today; and environmentalist Philippe Cousteau Jr looks to the future of our oceans and charts the way they're changing. Filmed in High Definition in some of the most beautiful diverse and threatened seas on our planet the team travels across the world to the Southern Ocean the Atlantic the Indian Ocean the Red Sea the Sea of Cortez the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean to dive the depths of the world's seas and oceans. The planet's seas are changing fast and Oceans builds up a timely global picture of our planet's most magnificent and vital asset.
This box set features the following films: To Sir With Love (Dir. James Clavell) (1967): A novice teacher faces a class of rowdy undisciplined working-class teenagers in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears that existed among young people in the 1960's. Sidney Poitier gives one of his finest performances as Mark Thackeray an out-of-work engineer who turns to teaching in London's tough East End. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Dir. Stanley Kramer) (1967): Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton) the beautiful daughter of a crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn) returns home with her new fiancee John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; and the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Raisin In The Sun (Dir. Daniel Petrie) (1961): The Younger family frustrated with living in their crowded Chicago apartment sees the arrival of a 000 insurance check as the answer to their prayers. Matriarch Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil) promptly puts a down payment on a house in an all-white suburban neighborhood. But the family is divided when Lena entrusts the balance of the money to her mercurial son Walter Lee (Poitier) against the wishes of her daughter (Diana Sands) and daughter-in-law (Ruby Dee). It takes the strength and integrity of this African-American family to battle against generations of prejudice to try to achieve their piece of the American Dream... Buck And The Preacher (Dir. Sidney Poitier) (1972): Buck (Poitier) an ex-Union Army Cavalry sergeant becomes a scout for freed slaves heading to the Colorado frontier. Tagging along with him are his wife (Ruby Dee) and a Bible-thumping con artist known as the Preacher (Belafonte). Attacked by racist bounty hunters determined to return the former slaves to a life of sharecropping in Louisiana Buck and his followers must summon all the courage they have in order to reach their destination and help settle the Wild West... Little Nikita (Dir. Richard Benjamin) (1988): Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy nicknamed Scuba still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious he's killing their agents one by one including sleepers agents under deep cover awaiting orders. Roy interviews a high school lad Jeff Grant an applicant to the Air Force Academy. In a routine background check Roy discovers that Jeff's parents are sleepers. He must see if Jeff is also a spy confront the parents yet protect them and catch his nemesis. Bedford Incident (Dir. James B. Harris) (1965): Nerve-wracking suspense surrounds The Bedford Incident the tale of a U.S. naval vessel on a routine NATO patrol that ends up in a freakish showdown with a Russian submarine. Richard Widmark is Capt. Eric Finlander the maniacal commander who drives his tense crew to the brink of of nervous exhaustion. Sidney Poitier is Ben Munceford photojournalist aboard assigned to record a 'typical' mission. His moral indignation is put to the test by the captain's obsession with forcing the sub to the surface. Several crew members are at their breaking points as Finlander continues his prowl. Especially affected is a former German U-board commander now aboard the Bedford as a NATO observer portrayed by Eric Portman.
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