Documentary

• Wilding | Blu Ray | (16/12/2024) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The young couple battles entrenched tradition, and dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.

• Frozen Planet II | Blu Ray | (31/10/2022) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 2011, Frozen Planet gave BBC viewers an unprecedented insight into life in the Poles. Now, 11 years later, Frozen Planet II - presented by Sir David Attenborough returns to the Arctic and Antarctic to observe the amazing species that thrive there. But, going further than Series 1, it also explores life beyond the Poles witnessing the wildlife dramas that play out in all the world's coldest regions: our high mountains, frozen grasslands, snowbound forests, and ice-cold oceans. These are the last true wildernesses on earth; places so challenging for survival that only a heroic cast of animals can live here. From polar bears to penguins, Siberian tigers to snow monkeys, each species must overcome unique challenges to survive their extreme environments.

• Michael Palin in Iraq | DVD | (11/09/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michael Palin embarks on an epic, revelatory journey into Iraq, one of the most dangerous and complexbr/countries in the world. Following the Tigris river for over a thousand miles, from its source in eastern Turkey br/to the Persian Gulf, Michael wants to discover what life is like for the 40 million people who live in Iraq. Iraq is br/often called the 'cradle of civilisation' and Michael wants to explore the country's past as well as its troubledbr/present.br/

• Fahrenheit 9/11 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £7.46   |  Saving you £15.52 (347.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore returns with this scathing examination of George W. Bush and his administraton's actions in the wake of 9/11.

• Riding Giants | Blu Ray | (21/06/2021) from £13.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First time on Blu-Ray in the UK. Three years after Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta came back with another spectacular doc - this time on the history of big-wave surfing. Widely regarded as one of the best surf documentaries ever made, it can now be viewed in high definition for the first time. Breaking the mold of traditional documentary filmmaking, Riding Giants uses its dynamic, cross-generational approach to profile the lives and times of the intrepid surfers who over the decades have dedicated themselves to finding and successfully challenging the biggest waves on earth. We meet Greg Noll, the pioneer, whose relentless push into Hawaii's big surf in the late 1950s earned him the nickname The Bull. There's Jeff Clark, Northern California's lone frontiersman, who, after discovering the massive waves of Maverick's near San Francisco, rode there alone for over a decade. And finally Hawaii's Laird Hamilton, the prototypical extreme surfer, a rare breed of athlete/innovator considered as the best big wave rider who ever waxed a board.

• South Pacific | Blu Ray | (15/06/2009) from £14.74   |  Saving you £15.25 (50.90%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The extraordinary wildlife culture and history of this immense fascinating ocean and its myriad islands are revealed in stunning detail in this acclaimed BBC series. With its coral reefs turquoise lagoons and dramatic oceanic atolls the South Pacific is the archetypal paradise. But from the shores of Hawaii to Easter Island and a thousand tiny remote islands this ocean holds some of the most bizarre and intriguing surprises on Earth... The incredible photography and discoveries of this series capture the amazing natural sights of the region: from erupting undersea volcanoes to jewelled tropical reefs and from tiger sharks catching albatross chicks to giant crabs opening coconuts. It reveals how the islands' isolation has helped evolve flesh-eating caterpillars vampire bugs with antifreeze in their veins a strange nocturnal parrot with a mating call like a bull frog and the fascinating monkey-tailed skink. South Pacific also tells of the people whose ancestors journeyed thousands of miles to the islands. Some acquired new survival techniques such as the palolo worm-harvesting Samoans or the Solomon islanders who fish with spider webs and kites while others developed bizarre rituals such as the Pentecost land divers who leap from 25-metre wooden scaffolds. With incredible natural spectacles dramatic footage and fascinating stories South Pacific will change the way you view this ocean forever.

• Häxan - Witchcraft Through the Ages | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Since its premiere in 1922 Benjamin Christensen's exploration of the role of superstition in medieval minds has caused outrage and protest from both the general public and religious groups. Dramatizing satanic activities and rituals including the ways in which suspected witches were tortured and killed Haxan is a deliriously imaginative masterpiece. Not until 1941 did the director earn belated fame and respect - proof that this genre-defying 'documentary' was far ahead of its time. In 1968 the film won further praise and a whole new audience when it was re-released with a William Burroughs narration under the title Witchcraft through the Ages.

• Don't Take Me Home | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £4.71   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Don't Take Me Home, an inspiring documentary from Welsh filmmaker Jonny Owen (I Believe in Miracles) following Wales remarkable journey to the final stages of the 2016 European Championships. For the last 60 years Wales have tried and failed to qualify for a major football tournament. Having gone through the grief of previous manager Gary Speed s tragic death, heavy defeats, and positioned as a tiny country team with no pedigree, all bets were off for how the underdogs would perform. Led by star player Gareth Bale, the team quickly became the outside favourites, dazzling millions of viewers. There's an ancient Welsh saying, Yma o Hyd which translates as we're still here - a defiantly apt statement from the smallest country in the history of the game getting to a major tournaments semi-finals. Don't Take Me Home tells the story of that journey, how Wales shook the footballing world to its very foundations, beating tournament favourites Belgium to reach the semi-finals focusing on the players, managers and supporters.

• David Attenborough: Life Story | DVD | (01/12/2014) from £4.32   |  Saving you £18.67 (432.18%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Narrated by David Attenborough Life Story takes us on the greatest of all adventures – the journey through life. For animals there is just one goal in life – to continue their bloodline in the form of offspring. They are an animal’s legacy for the future. The story of their journey is about hope facing danger actions of breath-taking boldness extraordinary behaviours and ultimately success against the odds. This spectacular series follows that journey through its six crucial stages: taking their first steps in the world growing up finding a home gaining power winning a mate and succeeding as a parent. Life Story brings a new level of story-telling to the landmark genre creating an experience that is both intimate and intense. We follow the struggles and triumphs of individual animals drawing the viewer into their worlds to sense the danger the challenges and the decisions they must face. Special Features: Interview with Sir David Attenborough Making of Life Story Featurettes

• Top Gear - The Great Adventures Vol.2 | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  DVD Contains: Botswana Special The starting point is a little village on the border between Zimbabwe and Botswana. James was the first to arrive in his 1985 Mercedes 230E. Next up was Jeremy with a 1981 Lancia Beta Coupe. Finally Richard turned up in an Opel Kadet made in 1963 which he immediately bonded with and named Oliver. To reach their destination on the Namibian border the boys had to negotiate the vast openness and primordial sludge of the Makgadikgadi salt pans the choking dust of the Kalahari Desert not to mention the treacherous rivers and hungry wildlife of the Okavango Delta. Along the way they encountered more or less every dangerous animal known to man including hippos elephants and the apparently testicle-crazed honey badger - as well as petrol shortages flying vice-presidents and the Stig's African cousin. Incredibly the cars survived everything Africa could throw at them - including being dismantled crashed drowned and shot. Of course the presenters were well motivated to keep their cars moving: anyone who broke down irreparably would be forced to complete the journey in the spare car - an irritatingly unstoppable Volkswagen Beetle. Vietnam Special: Jeremy Clarkson Richard Hammond and James May go to Vietnam and are told to travel the entire length of the country in just eight days thereby achieving what the American military failed to do in ten years. First they must each buy some suitable transport for the trip but the several million dong they have in their pockets prove to be rather less money than they thought especially in one of the most expensive car markets in the world. Nonetheless the boys are resourceful and with the wheels eventually sorted they set off on one of the most spectacular and incredible road trips Top Gear has ever attempted.

• In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon | Blu Ray | (28/10/2024) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Osbournes - The First Series | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £16.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (7.40%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The first series of The Osbournes is a hilarious fly-on-the-wall documentary concerning the day-to-day domestic misadventures of Ozzy Osbourne (former frontman of Black Sabbath), his relatively sensible wife Sharon and their kids Jack and Kelly. Having made his millions and been to rock & roll hell and back, Ozzy seems content nowadays to put his feet up in the sofa of the kitchen of his palatial Beverly Hills abode. However, a host of problems--including poorly toilet-trained domestic pets, noisy neighbours, his continuing obligations as an ageing metal superstar, his inability to operate the state-of-the-art telly and his ever-quarrelsome kids flapping fractiously about the place--forbid him a moment of peace. This real-life sitcom fodder has led many to describe the Osbourne family as "dysfunctional"--however, despite the generous helpings of expletives with which the series is garnished, like The Simpsons, they're actually a loving and stable family unit underneath it all. The series isn't perfect--the stylised MTV treatment is occasionally obtrusive and more Ozzy and less of the career-hungry teen brats would be welcome. Still, it's a gloriously refreshing change from the usual bland evasiveness of celebrity profiles. On the DVD: The Osbournes boasts a welter of wittily packaged special features. These include a commentary track ("Aww, look at Kelly, being nice! Can't we have that Kelly back?"), an "Ozzy translator" (English subtitles) for the benefit of those bamboozled by his Brummy accent and "Ozzy's Ten Commandments" delivered impromptu by the great man, tidied up into biblical-speak in the subtitles ("Thou shall cling tight to the moneybelt of thy father"). Although Sharon declares that she's "worried about the oranges" on the DVD, she needn't be. Given that this is a transfer from video, it looks clean and pristine, necessarily so in that it enhances the colourful, almost cartoon air of the series. Sound wise, there are no problems either, despite the competing setbacks of thick accents, background music, "voices off" and barking. Everything is picked up, from offhand grunted remarks to ear-splitting tantrums. --David Stubbs

• Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £13.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fred Dibnah: Dibnah's Victorian Heroes

• The Ascent Of Money | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Niall Ferguson goes on an epic tour of world finance and demonstrates that behind every great historical phenomenon - empires and republics wars and revolutions - there lies a financial secret.

• Being A.P. | DVD | (30/11/2015) from £2.05   |  Saving you £17.94 (875.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Being A.P. is the incredible inside story of a sporting legend. As A.P. McCoy nears the end of his career, the characteristics that have driven him to dominate the most dangerous of sports remain as strong as ever. Fearless and willing to sacrifice everything to achieve his goals, this film reveals the exhaustive training routine, injuries, doubt, triumphs, failures, and AP's soul-searching to find a way to leave the stage. With unprecedented access to A.P. and those closest to him, Being AP celebrates an incredible man who became the greatest jump jockey the world has ever seen.

• Meru | Blu Ray | (07/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the high-stakes game of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. It's a deadly route that has seen more failed attempts by elite climbing teams over the past 30 Years than any other ascent in the Himalayas. When Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk attempted the 21,000ft climb they suffered set back after set back including dwindling supplies, 10 feet snow storms and sub-zero temperatures. Beaten back even when inches from the summit, heartbroken and totally defeated, Anker, Chin and Ozturk face up to some extraordinary challenges that makes Meru a unique story of friendship, sacrifice, hope and obsession. In the high-stakes game of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. It's a deadly route that has seen more failed attempts by elite climbing teams over the past 30 Years than any other ascent in the Himalayas. When Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk attempted the 21,000ft climb they suffered set back after set back including dwindling supplies, 10 feet snow storms and sub-zero temperatures. Beaten back even when inches from the summit, heartbroken and totally defeated, Anker, Chin and Ozturk face up to some extraordinary challenges that makes Meru a unique story of friendship, sacrifice, hope and obsession.

• Walking with…..Levison Wood | DVD | (28/10/2024) from £14.72   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Jojo Siwa: My World | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £2.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jojo recounts all of the events in her life that brought her to a huge performance at the Mall America and becoming a Nickelodeon star.

• 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 Sepecat Jaguar | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two full decades after its first flight in 1968, the Anglo-French Jaguar enjoyed it's finest hour when the allies went to war in the Gulf. This onetime supersonic trainer proved its worth time and time again as one of the world's most potent strike aircraft, recording more than 1,000 sorties , many at terrain-hugging height, over Kuwait and Iraq as the conflict unfolded.This documentary tells the story of the Jaguar's history, from its genesis, to the conflicts in Bosnia, including interviews with the men that flew them... the Jaguar Pilots.