Documentary

• The Liners Box Set | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Liners: Box Set (4 Discs)

• Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story | Blu Ray | (06/11/2023) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the makers of 'Pennywise: The Story of IT' and the upcoming widely-anticipated movie 'RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop' comes an all-new special collector's edition Blu-Ray packed full of exciting bonus material, celebrating the legacy and career of one our generation's most beloved horror icons, the legendary Robert Englund. Shooting to super-stardom with his revolutionary portrayal of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise - a moment without doubt as visceral to the horror genre as Chaney's werewolf or Karloff's ground-breaking realisation of Frankenstein's monster-Englund has firmly earned his place in the pantheon of horror movie legends. This unique and captivating portrait, featuring exclusive interviews with Englund himself, plus Lin Shaye, Eli Roth, Tony Todd and many of the star's co-workers from projects including 'Urban Legend', '2001 Maniacs', '976-EVIL', 'Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon', 'Wishmaster', 'V', 'Dead and Buried',' Phantom of the Opera', and, of course, the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movies, captures the full story of the man behind the glove, exploring not only his most iconic role but the depths of England's true power as a character actor in the years since Freddy's cinematic birth. Special features include: - Horror Icons - Nightmare Cafe with Jack Coleman - A Conversation with the Directors - Robert Englund: Chatterbox - A Peek Behind the Curtain: Dance Macabre - UK-exclusive Art Cards, and Reversible Sleeve Art

• 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould: The Sound Of Genius | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Internationally renowned pianist Glenn Gould had all the marks of genius - blinding talent, a craving for perfection and absolute bullheadedness. In Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, director Francois Girard goes directly to the center of Gould's ideas, his passions and his music. Using thirty-two elegantly constructed vignettes, the film span Gould's life from the age of four until his untimely death aged fifty. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould opened in 1993 and won four Genie Awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, including Best Picture and Best Director, as well as a special citation at the 1993 Toronto Film Festival. It has not been available on DVD for many years in the UK and is reissued to commemorate the 30th year since he passed, and the 80th year since his birth.

• BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (Masters of Cinema) (BLU-RAY) | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the most artistically significant and controversial motion pictures ever made D. W. Griffith's silent epic The Birth of a Nation was a massive commercial success at the time of its release owing to its dynamic storytelling and its breakthrough developments in cinema language that have become common traits of practically every film that has since followed. However the picture's legacy is one that continues to elicit outrage over its vulgar depictions of African-Americans and its deceptive historiography of the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Birth of a Nation begins depicting the amiable relationship between two families Northern and Southern and the way in which the impending Civil War intensifies the conflict of their worldviews. Following the end of the war and the assassination of President Lincoln a lawless chaos courses throughout the Reconstruction South and the Ku Klux Klan is formed to take on a rising black militia and impose a vengeful vigilante justice across their land and birthright. It's a film that's deeply divisive even to the senses of a single viewer: images of painterly beauty in composition and tonal quality often exhibit a contemptuous inflammatory coarseness with regard to subject matter; just as frequently long tracts evince an innocent terrifically lyrical grandeur. Griffith would attempt to make amends for the moral schism of this schizophrenic epic in his next film Intolerance but The Birth of a Nation cannot - and should not - remain unseen or undiscussed: it is a great and terrible masterpiece. The Masters of Cinema Series releases Griffith's three-hour epic including a series of the director's Civil War shorts for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK. Special Features: New 1080p presentation (on the Blu-ray) of the film from archival 35mm elements in its original aspect ratio Music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra in 2.0 stereo and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Short archival introductions to the film by D. W. Griffith and Walter Huston Newly rediscovered original intermission sequence and 1930 re-release title sequence Seven Civil War shorts directed by Griffith: In the Border States (1910); The House with Closed Shutters (1910); The Fugitive (1910); His Trust (1910); His Trust Fulfilled (1910); Swords and Hearts (1911); and The Battle (1911). A lengthy booklet with writing about the film rare archival imagery and more.

• Don Carlo - DVD Live from the Royal Opera House | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £15.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (12.51%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Don Carlo - DVD Live from the Royal Opera House (2 Disc)

• Rise Of The Nazi Party | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £10.78   |  Saving you £4.21 (28.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ten-part documentary series about Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels; the four men implicit in the rise of the Nazi Party. The episodes are: 'Nazism Is Born', 'Becoming Respectable', 'Seizing Power', 'In Power', 'Preparing for War', 'Hitler's Biggest Blunder', 'The Final Solution', 'Plots and Delusions', 'End Game' and 'Aftermath'.

• Earth From Space | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (197.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Earth From SpaceDiscover Earth From Space: ground-breaking science astounding images and unforgettable sequences behold a constantly evolving world of extraordinary beauty and power. Earth from Space takes you on an epic quest to reveal the invisible forces and processes that sustain life on our planet and for the first time see them in action in their natural environment in vivid detail. These truly unique images will explore the deepest mysteries of its existence raising profound questions and challenging the old assumptions of how Earth's system works. Earth from Space teams up with NASA and the world's foremost earth scientists in this ground-breaking journey. Using state of the art CGI transforms their raw satellite data into the visible spectrum to create truly authentic high definition moving images that show in vivid detail these invisible processes at work. This has never been done before. Earth's systems brought to life in a way that not even NASA's finest minds have seen realised. Earth from Space will journey around the world to discover how the Earth works and how it is changing. A landmark television event: provocative surprising and amazingly beautiful - you'll never look at the world in the same way again.

• Abbey Garden Tresco Isle of Scilly The NEW DVD | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A subtropical paradise brimming with exotic plants from every corner of the globe, the Abbey Garden onTresco is one of England's most fascinating gardens

• Handel Glyndebourne Box Set | Blu Ray | (03/03/2017) from £29.86   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Chase (BBC TV Series) | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £4.20   |  Saving you £17.05 (579.93%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keith Barron Gaynor Faye and Nicola Stephenson star in this compelling drama written by Gaynor's renowned script-writing mother Kay Mellor (Playing the Field Between the Sheets) The Chase follows the lives and loves of a family of vets in a struggling Yorkshire practice as they cope with new wives and babies money worries and shocking secrets. George Williams (Keith Barron) heads the practice with his daughter Anna (Gaynor Faye) and her husband Tom (Nicholas Gleaves). George's second daughter Sarah (Nicola Stephenson) lives in London where she moved following the death of her mother - and the discovery of Tom in a compromising situation with one of the surgery nurses Fiona (Heather Peace). But George has found a new wife Claudie (Michelle Holmes). At his wedding reception he announces his retirement leaving an eight-month pregnant Anna with a struggling business an estranged sister one vet down one vet defecting to the local opposition and a list of operations as long as her arm. It's enough to send a woman into labour!

• Mud Men With Johny Vaughan | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £5.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (568.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Johnny Vaughan and his mudlarking guide and buddy “Mud God” Steve Brooker, are on a muddy archaeological adventure, digging up the banks of the Thames to reveal our astonishing hidden history. Armed with metal detectors and trowels – the pair have just five hours before the tide rushes in to wade, search and dig the banks of the River Thames finding artefacts, from medieval chain mail to WW2 artillery shells and Tudor trading tokens to cursed Bellarmine pots. The extraordinary objects that they find propel them on quests through the streets of London and around the country to unlock the secrets of remarkable shared British past.

• Zappa (Dual Format DVD+Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (06/12/2021) from £17.44   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Conveying the scope of his prodigious and varied creative output and the breadth of his extraordinary personal and political life, director/producer Alex Winter and producer Glen Zipper were granted exclusive access by Gail Zappa to a vast collection of his unreleased music, movies, incomplete projects, unseen interviews and unheard concert recordings, much of which was deteriorating and in danger of being lost forever.

• TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS (Masters of Cinema) (BLU-RAY) | Blu Ray | (24/06/2013) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1929 F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu Faust Sunrise) one of the greatest of all film directors invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North Man of Aran) to collaborate on a film to be be shot on location in Tahiti a Polynesian idyll in which Murnau imagined a cast of island actors would provide a new form of authentic drama and offer rare insight into their primitive culture. The result of their collaboration was Tabu a film that depicts the details of indigenous island life to tell a mythical tale that is rich in the universal themes of desire and loss. Subtitled A Story of the South Seas Tabu concerns a Tahitian fisherman (played by an islander Matahi) and his love for a young woman (played by fellow islander Reri who went on to star on Broadway) whose body has been consecrated to the gods rendering her tabu as far as mortal men are concerned. The lovers flee their island and its restrictive traditions but will their love prevail in the civilised world? This Oscar-winning film (the Academy Award went to cinematographer Floyd Crosby) is both poetic and simple in tone. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present - completely unc­ensored and fully restored - this landmark film of rare exoticism and magical beauty described by critic Lotte Eisner in 1931 as the apogee of the art of the silent film for the first time ever on Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio. Special Features: New 1080p HD transfer on the Blu-ray of the Murnau-Stiftung / Luciano Berriatúa 75th anniversary restoration of the pre-Paramount longer Murnau-approved version of the film with uncensored scenes and titlecards appearing in its original 1.19:1 aspect ratio for the first time Full-length commentary track by R. Dixon Smith and Brad Stevens 15-minute German documentary about Tabu by Luciano Berriatúa Newly presented outtakes from the original shoot of the film Treibjagd in der Südsee (1940) - an archival short film 56-Page Booklet with articles by Scott Eyman Richard Griffiths and David Flaherty; an interview with the film’s cinematographer Floyd Crosby; and the original story treatments written by Murnau and Flaherty for Tabu and its aborted predecessor Turia

• Flying Monsters (Blu-ray 3D) | Blu Ray | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  220 million years ago, as dinosaurs were beginning their domination of Earth, another group of reptiles was about to make an extraordinary leap. Pterosaurs were taking control of the skies. The story of how and why these mysterious creatures took to the air is more fantastical than any fiction. In Flying Monsters, Sir David Attenborough sets out to uncover the truth about the enigmatic pterosaurs whose wingspans of up to 40 feet were equal to that of a modern day jet plane. The central question and of the greatest mysteries in palaeontology is how and why did pterosaurs fly. How did creatures the size of giraffes defy gravity and soar through prehistoric skies? Attenborough starts to unravel one of science’s more enduring mysteries, discovering that the marvel of pterosaur flight has evolutionary echoes that resonate even today.

• Baby Van Gogh - World of Colours | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Baby Van Gogh is from the award-winning infant-developmental media company Baby Einstein, whose goal and philosophy is the satisfaction of a child's curiosity through sight and sound. In the main Theatre section of this disc you'll find lots of simple shapes, primary colours and favourite toys passing across the screen. Unlike the simpler earlier releases, this is focused on the works of Vincent Van Gogh, who is here represented by a blue sock puppet! To begin with the video seems like something of a nature documentary with flowers in bloom and animals on the move, before we're taken through the colours of the rainbow with sections devoted to the individual colours. For example in Yellow, there are toy chicks, sunflowers, lemons and children playing in yellow paper shavings. All the while, The Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra play us music from Van Gogh's era such as The Blue Danube Waltz, The William Tell Overture, Swan Lake and Flight of the Bumble Bee. This is a slight advancement in expectation of your child from the more basic initial releases but has a Video Tutorial to help the parent understand how it all works. On the DVD: Baby Van Gogh is the name of the feature itself, but from the Main Menu you can enter a Concert Hall to replay the musical cues from the main show. There's also an Art Exhibit of each of the featured Van Gogh paintings, a Resources section with the aforementioned Video Tutorial and a Toy Chest crediting all the toys used, just in case a certain someone wants one of their own. --Paul Tonks

• The Repair Shop: Series 9 Vol 2 | DVD | (25/03/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Spirit of '45 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £3.26   |  Saving you £13.99 (699.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  1945 was a pivotal year in British history. The unity that carried Britain through the war allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years led to a vision of a better society. The spirit of the age was to be our brother's and our sister's keeper. Director Ken Loach has used film from Britain's regional and national archives, alongside sound recordings and contemporary interviews to create a rich political and social narrative. The Spirit of '45 hopes to illuminate and celebrate a period of unprecedented community spirit in the UK, the impact of which endured for many years and which may yet be rediscovered today. Special Features: UK Trailer Interview with Ken Loach Ken Loach short film: Which Side Are You On? Audio Description option for the blind or partially sighted English for the Hard of Hearing Subtitles 22 Extended interviews with all contributors to the film

• Cobain: Montage of Heck | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £9.22   |  Saving you £12.77 (138.50%)   |  RRP £21.99

  COBAIN – Montage of Heck invites you to experience Kurt’s life art and mind through his own unique lens bringing you as close to the generation-defining icon as it’s possible to get. Experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the first fully-authorized portrait of the famed rock music icon. Director Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art music and never-before-seen home movies with animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest confidantes. Following Kurt from his earliest years in Aberdeen WA through the height of his fame a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surroundings emerges. While Cobain craved the spotlight even as he rejected the trappings of fame his epic arc depicts a man who stayed true to his earliest punk rock convictions always identifying with the outsider and ensuring the music came first. Fans and those of the Nirvana generation will learn things about Cobain they never knew while those who have recently discovered the man and his music will know what makes him the lasting icon that he is.

• The Salzburg Festival | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £14.97   |  Saving you £5.02 (33.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Salzburg Festival has hosted every great star of the opera and concert hall from Toscanini to Anne-Sophie Mutter from Fischer-Dieskau to Barenboim from Pollini to Mitsuko Uchida. In this film the first to tell the story of this remarkable festival set in the birthplace of Mozart director Tony Palmer has been granted unprecedented access to Austria's film archives. Highlights include performances of 'Jedermann' from 1920 to the present day featuring actors such as Maximilian

• Hebburn | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hebburn is the home town of stand-up comedian Jason Cook, who has created this warm, true-to-life comedy based on his own experiences of growing up in the North East of England. It tells the tale of the Cook family and their son, Jason, who has left Tyneside for the bright lights and glamour of Manchester. He's secretly married a middle class Jewish girl, Clare, and realises that it is about time he introduced her to his family... Co-written by Graham Duff and starring Jim Moir (Vic Reeves).