Documentary

• James May's Man Lab Series 3 | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £6.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (191.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete third series of the documentary show in which James May contrasts modern practical skills with those of years gone by. In this series, James builds a pizza oven, makes soap, broadcasts pirate radio and much more.

• Classic Albums - Deep Purple - Machine Head | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £9.97   |  Saving you £4.01 (57.45%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A musical biography telling the incredible story of the making of the Deep Purple album 'Machine Head'; the album that brought the band worldwide superstardom in 1972 putting them at the pinnacle of 1970's hard rock.

• Private Life of Plants (Repackaged) | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £11.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (73.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  David Attenborough's thrilling series, taking us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, is captured on this amazing video. The account of plant life's struggle for survival is seen as never before in a story full of drama, beauty and staggering achievement. Attenborough takes us through each aspect of plants' lives travelling, growing, flowering, their struggle with other plants and animals, and the ingenious way they adapt to even the harshest of conditions. From the 290-foot-...

• Dragons Den Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Budding entrepreneurs inventors and small businessmen (and women) pitch their ideas to the five dragons - real-life business leaders and millionaires with real cash to invest in the companies they feel will make it. Each 'contestant' must convince the 'dragons' to part with thousands of pounds to make their dreams a reality. Contains both series of the hitt BBC show.

• Night And Fog | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ten years following the Holocaust Alain Resnais documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz while reflecting on the rise of Nazi ideology and the harrowing lives of the camp prisoners using haunting wartime footage. Night And Fog was one of the first films made about the Holocaust and remains one of the most important commentaries about this topic.

• Greatest Speeches - Franklin Delano Roosevelt | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £12.96   |  Saving you £8.02 (80.44%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set Comprises: Inaugration Speech Grilled Millionaires Nothing To Fear Democratic Convention Yalta Conference The European Conflict Social Security Act Fireside Chats From The White House

• Seven Ages Of Britain | DVD | (15/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Seven Ages Of Britain

• World's Greatest Bar Bets | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £5.04   |  Saving you £14.95 (296.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alex Conran Jessica Clement and Paul Wilson (of The Real Hustle) demonstrate a selection of startling and astonishing bar bets and challenges. Looking to get out of your round down the local? Scamming a drink from your friends? Or just getting your own back on that uncle who never bought you a present? Alex Jess and Paul show you a series of classy easy-to-learn challenges using everyday items from wine glasses to bank notes playing cards to eggs! The experts perform these proposition bets in a real bar up against real punters. Facing an expensive round at the bar their 'marks' are determined to win the bet - and even when they inevitably fail the viewer still gets the chance to rise to the challenge. Then in close-up with slow motion sequences they explain just how it's done...Perfect for you to practice and bamboozle your mates on your next night out!

• The Velvet Underground (2021) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (26/12/2022) from £28.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York's 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, TODD HAYNES (Velvet Goldmine) vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries LOU REED and JOHN CALE, ANDY WARHOL's fabled Factory, and the explosive tension between pop and the avant-garde that propelled the group and ultimately consumed it. Never-before-seen performances, interviews, rare recordings, and mind-blowing transmissions from the era's avant-garde cinema scene come together in an ecstatic swirl of sound and image that is to the traditional music documentary what the Velvets were to rock: utterly revolutionary. Product Features New 4K digital master, approved by director Todd Haynes and cinematographer Ed Lachman, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack Audio commentary featuring Haynes and editors Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz Outtakes of interviews shot for the film with musicians John Cale, Jonathan Richman, and Maureen Tucker; filmmaker Jonas Mekas; and actor Mary Woronov Conversation from 2021 among Haynes, Cale, and Tucker Complete versions of some of the avant-garde films excerpted in the movie, including Piero Heliczer's Venus in Furs (1965) Teaser English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Optional annotated subtitle track that identifies the avant-garde films seen in the movie PLUS: A 2021 essay by critic Greil Marcus

• River Cottage Collection | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £22.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (73.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Escape To River Cottage: It is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's dream to escape the urban sprawl and find a little place in the country where he can live off the fat of the land. When Hugh finds River Cottage nestling in the heart of the beautiful Dorset countryside he sets about turning his dream into a reality. The first casualty to self-sufficiency is the flower bed which makes way for terracing to grow edible crops. Once the vegetables have been taken care of Hugh sets off in his 1965 Ford Corsair in search of livestock. The first arrivals at the cottage are a pair of eight week old Gloucester Old Spot pigs but more animals soon follow. Hugh also finds time to show how sumptuous meals can be prepared from the local produce be it sea fish pigeons or freshly caught pike. Return To River Cottage: The second series looking at the life of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who continues to live in River Cottage in Dorset. River Cottage Forever: The rolling hills and rugged countryside of Dorset provide the perfect backdrop for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's experiment to leave the rat race behind to live off the fat of the land. Tucked away at the bottom of one of the county's valleys he finds his ideal home: River Cottage. In his first year Hugh had just the cottage and the garden but he soon found he needed more land so in his second year he did a deal with a neighbour to rent four acres. His smallholding now boasts a polytunnel for growing vegetables fox proof high rise chicken accommodation and pasture for his sheep cows and pigs. It is now the start of his third year and as well as being a time for looking back with joy and satisfaction at the events of the last two years it is a time to ask the really big question: should Hugh stay at River Cottage forever?

• Battle Of Finland | DVD | (24/02/2014) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Nominated for Best Film, this spectacular drama weaves the incredible, untold stories of courageous young men who fought in one of the most decisive battles of World War II. June 1944; When Soviet forces break through Finland s defences on the eastern front, what follows is the Battle of Tali-Ihantala; one of the largest and most devastating battles in history, where few survived. Based on true events, this stunning, action-packed epic follows the lives and actions of individual men and uni...

• Secrets of Great British Castles Series 1&2 | DVD | (29/05/2023) from £17.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Accel World: Part 1 | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Accel World Part 1. Are you prepared to accelerate beyond your world? In the near future our lives will be organised and played out through devices known as Neurolinkers. Utilising it enables access to a virtual reality where there are no limits on an individual for Harayuki Arita this is freedom. Neither rich popular nor particularly attractive Harayuki spends his time building his ideal self here. He dominates this space until it is cruelly taken away from him by high school bullies. However salvation is at hand when Kuroyukihime the school's most popular girl offers him another chance to escape and become the person he's always wanted to be. Except this offer has a catch and it deals with his life. Delving into the virtual reality known as Accel World Haru will need to learn quickly how to fight if he wishes to uncover the secrets of this world and become Kuroyukihime's knight.

• The Lost Weekend: A Love Story | Blu Ray | (18/12/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wonders of the Universe | Blu Ray | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Explore the furthest reaches of the solar system in an entirely new dimension.

• The Real Godfathers - Al Capone - Scarface | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The true story of the most notorious gangster in American history. In the thrilling underworld of speakeasies Tommy Guns and turf wars Al Capone was the undisputed emperor of Chicago. ""Scarface"" was many things to many people - a ruthless and vindictive murderer a generous patron and a wild and glamorous impresario. But to all Capone is the most notorious gangster in American history. Follow his journey from the immigrant neighbourhood of his youth to the glittering circles of Chic

• Moonage Daydream | DVD | (05/12/2022) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, director of Cobain: Montage of Heck, and featuring never-before-seen concert footage, Moonage Daydream is an immersive cinematic experience; an audio-visual space odyssey that not only illuminates the enigmatic legacy of David Bowie but also serves as a guide to living a fulfilling and meaningful life in the 21st Century. Moonage Daydream is not a documentary. It is a genre-defying cinematic experience based on one of the most iconic and global rock stars of all time, destined to be one of the defining cultural moments of the year.

• Sisters of War | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £7.57   |  Saving you £2.42 (31.97%)   |  RRP £9.99

  1942 the Japanese war machine thundered across South East Asia in its path a tiny Catholic mission. This is the story of the nurses captivity their friendship their will to survive and their extraordinary courage.

• Bowling For Columbine | DVD | (01/05/2013) from £6.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (191.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the wake of the Columbine high school massacre acclaimed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's latest film takes a critical look at America's obsessive gun culture.

• Alistair Cooke's America | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A classic from what now seems like the Golden Age of TV documentaries, Alistair Cooke’s America was first broadcast in 1972-3 and it remains, along with the contemporary The World at War, an example of how documentaries should be made: there’s none of the flashy editing, wobbly camera-work, over-intrusive music or costumed actors prancing around in the mode of Simon Schama’s fussy History of Britain for example. Here there is just scenery, the odd map or illustration and—most importantly—Cooke himself talking directly and unhurriedly to camera. Over 13 leisurely hours, he narrates a "personal history" of his adopted country, beginning with his own arrival as a fresh young Cambridge graduate in the 1930s before taking us back to the very foundations of America, its colonisation, the war of Independence (told in an admirably non-partisan way) and so on through momentous and turbulent decades right up to the early 1970s, where Civil Rights and protest movements are high on the agenda. Throughout, Cooke interweaves anecdotes and digressions into the main narrative, charming the viewer with his storytelling precisely in the manner so beloved of listeners to his admirable Letter from America. By the end he has a warning that, although delivered in 1973, remains as telling today as it did then: America, like Ancient Rome as depicted by Gibbon in his Decline and Fall, stands poised between its remarkable vitality and its equally remarkable capacity for decadence. Whether, like Rome, the USA becomes a victim of its own internal divisions or somehow manages to pull back from the brink still remains to be seen. On the DVD: This four-disc set is neatly presented in digipack format, and includes a Pebble Mill at One interview with Cooke in which he discusses the series. --Mark Walker