Documentary

• In Search of Shakespeare | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £8.97   |  Saving you £11.02 (122.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The BBC series In Search of Shakespeare could be the English teacher's most important ally yet. With his typical mixture of intensive research, detective work, boyish enthusiasm and popular appeal, television historian Michael Wood comes closer than anyone to bringing the Bard to life. There are some astonishing discoveries along the way, which help to give a documentary cohesion to Shakespeare's story. But Wood is never arrogant enough to claim to have pinned the playwright's character down. The ifs, buts and maybes are all part of the fascination. The man himself remains tantalisingly just out of reach, which is probably as it should be. Instead, Wood takes us on an exhilarating journey through Elizabethan and Jacobean England, building a picture of his subject through painstaking reference to the climate of the age: a police state in which Shakespeare's family was devastated by the persecution of Catholics. Social, familial and political influences are all unravelled and pieced together, counterpointed with scenes from the plays--RSC actors conveniently to hand--and the life and times of the travelling actor and playwright are evoked in front of our eyes, becoming tangible and relevant. Wood gives us the chance to consider the plays in context, products of a great mind living in interesting times, rather than in academic isolation. It's a compelling tale, full of bloody danger, sex, celebrity and social history, and densely packed with layers of detail. Wood's great gift is to tell it in such an accessible way and without the sense of superiority that some of his peers bring to popular history. --Piers Ford

• Roger Waters: The Wall | Blu Ray | (16/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  'Roger Waters The Wall' is a concert film that the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter made on various tour dates between 2010 and 2013, when he was playing his former group's 1980 double-album in its entirety.

• Queen -The Complete Review | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £6.29   |  Saving you £9.70 (154.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  QUEEN The Complete Review (2009 UK 2-disc Region 0 DVD set - Its close to 20 years since the tragic death of Freddie Mercury meaning that Queen [at least the version that mattered] have been absent longer than they ever existed as the quite extraordinary group who made so much incredible music between 1973 and 1991. Featuring contributions from friends and close colleagues of Queen and with comment and critique from some of the finest rock journalists in the world plus much rare and classicfootage - including seldom seen performances of their finest tracks - news reports location shoots photographs from private collections a host of other features and a multitude of extras this package will prove a delight to the millions of fans who to this day worship one of the very few rock group to have earned the accolade of truly great band)

• Steam Classics Flying Scotsman | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £5.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Flying Scotsman is known as the most famous steam locomotive in the world. There are few people have not heard of this magnificent machine but far fewer know the complicated story of how Flying Scotsman became a National Treasure. Illustrated by evocative footage of the engine working on the British railway network in various guises this programme traces the story from the time when the locomotive returned from Australia after achieving its most recent record - the world's longest non-stop run behind steam - up to its acquisition by the nation and the National Railway Museum at York. In this programme we see Flying Scotsman with single and double-chimney fittings German smoke deflectors and LNER Apple Greene and British Railways' Brunswick Green liveries working from Carnforth in the North to Salisbury in the South as well as on the Ride the Legend excursions to Scarborough.

• The End - Confessions Of A Cockney Gangster | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £4.62   |  Saving you £8.37 (181.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Against the backdrop of the East End of London, first time filmmaker Nicola Collins explores the fascinating complexity of the lives of her father and his friends; infamous criminals that shaped their war torn environment into a violent underworld.

• Toughest Race on Earth With Ja | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £8.12   |  Saving you £21.87 (72.90%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It is dubbed the toughest race in the world. For a quarter of a century, athletes have been converging on the hottest place on Earth, to take on an extreme race across the desert, the Marathon des Sables.800 athletes from more than 30 nations compete in a 250km run over sand dunes, salt flats and mountains across the Sahara Desert. Up to 150 will drop out, however Olympian and adventurer James Cracknell will not even contemplate failure. But with such an unparalleled endurance race, no-one can predict the outcome.In the name of science, one of Britain’s most competitive athletes will surrender his body to science and team of specialists, thus becoming a living, breathing, competing experiment, as a team of experts attempt to condition Cracknell’s body to scientific perfection. Producing a body that can take on and overcome the toughest race in the world.

• Creation Stories | DVD | (06/11/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rock School - The Complete First Series | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Rock School the fire-breathing blood-spitting bassist of Kiss Gene Simmons tries to turn a classroom full of prim-and-proper British school children into a hot and heavy rock 'n' roll band. Gene is invited to Christ's Hospital a 450 year-old boarding school outside London. There the students wear uniforms march in procession and study classical music. In just six weeks Gene's monumental task is to transform a class of classically trained thirteen year-olds

• Life in Cold Blood | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £10.39   |  Saving you £14.60 (58.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The last in David Attenborough's pioneering 'Life' series sees him exploring the fascinating lives of reptiles and amphibians that have roamed the planet for millions of years. Using the very latest in filming technology from the BBC's world-renowned Natural History Unit, David reveals the surprising and intimate lives of the cold-blooded reptiles and amphibians, discovering the secret of their success. From the largest and most dangerous reptiles on Earth demonstrating tender and sensual cou...

• Bettany Hughes' Voices of the Dead | DVD | (07/11/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Grayson Perry: All In The Best Possible Taste | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Grayson Perry, renowned artist, transvestite, cultural icon and giver of the 2013 Reith Lecture, has always been fascinated by taste: why people buy the things they do and wear the things they wear, and what they are trying to say about themselves when they make those choices. Grayson goes on safari through the taste tribes of Britain, not just to observe our taste, but to tell us in an artwork what it means. The work Grayson creates is a series of six imposing tapestries called 'The Vanity.

• The Royal International Air Tattoo/Flying Legends Air Show 2006 | DVD | (01/10/2006) from £6.35   |  Saving you £3.64 (36.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Welcome to Flying Legends 2006, one of the world's truly great warbird air shows! Highlights included Lufthansa's Junkers Ju 52, the four Fighter Collection 'Cats', three Corsairs, two Catalinas, two B-17s and a thirty aircraft Balbo - the largest and most spectacular finale in recent years!

• Eden: Untamed Planet | Blu Ray | (22/08/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Napoleon's Waterloo | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  'Napoleon's Waterloo' not only examines the bloody conflict between the French and Coalition forces but also the intense personal rivalry between Napoleon and his nemesis Arthur Wellesley - the Duke of Wellington. When Napoleon broke free from exile and once more threatened Europe all the European rulers turned to Britain - and Wellington - as their only hope. Napoleon knew that only Wellington stood between him and glory - and the fight to stop him at Waterloo would claim 50 00

• Hearts of Darkness | Unknown | (28/07/2025) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the late seventies celebrated director Francis Ford Coppola and his cast and crew ventured into the dense jungles of the Philippines to begin work on what would eventually become his masterpiece, Apocalypse Now. But the journey from page to screen soon spiralled into a hellish, life-threatening nightmare that echoed the film's narrative. Plagued with adversity, one of the most influential films ever made had one of the most notorious shoots in cinema history that few survived unscathed. Compiled from rare on set footage filmed by Coppola's wife Eleanor and interviews with the cast, Hearts Of Darkness is the ultimate feature-length documentary, capturing the explosive events that lead to Apocalypse Now becoming an acknowledged classic.

• Unmistaken Child | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The beauty and splendour of Nepal is the breathtaking backdrop for this inspirational life affirming story. After his master dies novice monk Tenzin Zopa embarks on a quest to find his reincarnation. His search leads him to a young boy who would appear to have all the attributes and disciplines of his master. Can this child really be Lama Konchog reborn? Only a perilous journey to visit the Dalai Lama can bring an answer... The Buddhist concept of reincarnation while both mysterious and enchanting is difficult for most Westerners to grasp. Unmistaken Child explores the myths and legends that surrounds this belief in a beguiling touching and even humorous experience.

• Ronaldo | DVD | (09/11/2015) from £2.59   |  Saving you £17.40 (87.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ronaldo: Filmed over 14 months with unprecedented access into the inner circle of the man and the sport, this is the first official and fully authorised film of one of the most celebrated figures in football. For the first time ever, the world gets vividly candid and un-paralleled, behind-closed-doors access to the footballer, father, family-man and friend in this moving & fascinating documentary. Through in-depth conversations, state of the art football footage and never before seen archival footage, the film gives an astonishing insight into the sporting and personal life of triple Ballon D'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo at the peak of his career. From the makers of ˜Senna' and ˜Amy', Ronaldo takes audiences on an intimate and revealing journey of what it's like to live as an iconic athlete in the eye of the storm.

• Ice Road Truckers - Deadliest Roads | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  IRT: Deadliest Roads sends today’s toughest drivers to navigate the world’s most dangerous roads as they haul their way through India’s Himalayan highways, some of the most historic – and lethal – on the planet. From the crowded streets of Delhi to treacherously steep, narrow and congested roads blasted into the mountainside seasoned drivers Rick Yemm, Lisa Kelly and Alex Debogorski embark on an exhilarating, exhausting and terrifying adventure, where the difference between life and death is just a few inches…or one very blind corner. The challenges and perils are never-ending on these ancient trade routes; someone dies on them every 4.5 minutes. If Rick, Lisa and Alex aren’t careful, they might wind up as casualty statistics themselves. Tight, winding roads, perilous drops, rock ceilings, weakened mountains, potholes and total roadway failure combine with the ever-present danger of avalanches, communication breakdowns and wild weather to challenge, fray the nerves and risk the lives of these courageous drivers. Will they be able to adapt and overcome these dire obstacles when so far out of their own elements? Experience all 10 episodes of this pulse-pounding series on 3 DVDs.

• Seven Wonders Of The Industrial World | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Seven Wonders Of The Industrial World uncovers the truth behind the epic monuments of the Industrial Revolution from Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 'great ship' the SS Great Eastern to the Panama Canal that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans more than half a century later. These are stories driven by burning ambition extravagent dreams passion and rivalry of great minds. Each film uses dramatic reconstruction to tell a different story. Each film is based on real events and the acto

• 15 Hard Porn Films | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99