Documentary

• Hearts Of Darkness | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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, ApocalypseNow. 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.

• Sail Trimming Made Easy | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sail TrimmingPresented by Peter Bateman, an expert yachtsman and world champion, Sail Trimming is an instructional program aimed at helping yachtsmen trim sails more effectively in order to make their boats go faster. Using a combination of graphics and excellent onboard photography, this program demonstrates the basics of sail trimming in an easy to understand manner and gives a perfect perspective for understanding sail shapes and sail trim. Teaches: GENOAS - where best to check the shape; which shapes to have for each condition; how to adjust and trim to get the desired shape. MAINSAILS - how to set up the mainsail for fine tuning; trimming to balance the helm; how to make the boat accelerate; working with the helmsman to get the best boatspeed and highest pointing to windward; how to tune both mainsail and genoa to set as one unit. SPINNAKERS - How to adjust the rig for downwind sailing, the correct way to set spinnaker pole height and angle for maximum speed; how to identify the wrong shape and correct it; tipos on how to control a spinnaker in heavy weather. 34 min.

• Babies | Blu Ray | (28/03/2011) from £9.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four countries... Four babies... From birth to their first steps. Their names are Ponijao Bayarjargal Mari and Hattie and live in Namibia Mongolia Japan and the United States. Babies plunge us simultaneously in the heart of four different cultures and seizes the most touching funniest and carefree unique and universal of the very first months of one's life.

• The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Series 1 | DVD | (09/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  All five feature-length spinoffs from the classic 1960s spy series 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E'. With weapons in hand - and tongues in cheek - agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) carry out the bidding of U.N.C.L.E. chief Alexander Waverly (Leo G. Carroll). Guest stars include Joan Crawford, Rip Torn, Herbert Lom, Telly Savalas, Terry-Thomas, John Carradine and Leslie Nielson. Films are: 'The Spy With No Face', 'One Spy Too Many', 'Karate Killers', 'Helicopter ...

• Andre Rieu - Best of: Live | DVD | (21/05/2008) from £14.76   |  Saving you £-3.77 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Andre Rieu: Best of Andre Rieu Live

• Pina | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.69   |  Saving you £8.30 (107.93%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Pina is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wupperta featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer who died in the summer of 2009. Director Wim Wenders takes the audience on a visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble and follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place which for 35 years was the home and center for Pina Bausch's creativity.

• Escape To River Cottage | DVD | (06/09/2003) from £6.25   |  Saving you £18.74 (299.84%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It's easy to be cynical about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's adventures as a downshifted smallholder in Escape to River Cottage; after all, given his fame and fortune, he could upshift again faster than a BMW sports gearbox whenever he chose. "Why don't you give it a go?", he asks us. Because we don't all have fat media contracts to fall back on, we roll our eyes and reply. However, despite HF-W's seeming like a Posy Simmonds character, the fact remains that no TV chef has come close when it comes to reminding the supermarket generation about where food really comes from, or indeed where it should come from, as well as the values of indigenous produce (also a largely overlooked aspect of macrobiotics, incidentally). In this well-stuffed double DVD set Weirdly-Eatingall does alarming things with a goose, smokes fish in his chimney, eats his rather cute pigs, monitors the movements of mice by marking them with lipstick (why does he just happen to have some lippy lying around?) and, almost in passing, cooks up some wonderful dishes with his home-grown ingredients. On the DVD: Escape to River Cottage two-disc set includes six episodes, plus a bonus in the form of the Christmas special. Extras are on-screen recipes, F-W's biography and some outtakes, which are deeply unfunny except when various things decide to bite the presenter, which they do fairly often. The extras are duplicated on both discs, which is pointless and/or a bit of a swizz. --Roger Thomas

• One Direction: This Is Us (Blu-ray 3D) | Blu Ray | (19/12/2013) from £3.99   |  Saving you £26.00 (86.70%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One Direction: This Is Us is a captivating and intimate all-access look at life on the road for the global music phenomenon. Weaved with stunning live concert footage this inspiring feature film tells the remarkable story of Niall Zayn Liam Harry and Louis' meteoric rise to fame from their humble hometown beginnings and competing on the X-Factor to conquering the world and performing at London's famed O2 Arena. Hear it from the boys themselves and see through their own eyes what it's really like to be One Direction. Directed by Morgan Spurlock the film is produced by Simon Cowell Adam Milano Morgan Spurlock and Ben Winston. The executive producers are Richard Griffiths Harry Magee Will Bloomfield Doug Merrifield Jeremy Chilnick and Matthew Galkin.

• Bygone Pictures-Stoke on Trent | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (-24.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Let Bygone Pictures take you on a nostalgic journey into Stoke-on-Trent's magnificent past. You will encounter marvellous street scenes as well as local events of the 20th Century from Coronation celebrations and sporting confrontations to terrible accidents and World Wars. All of these time locked photographs have been brought back to life using the latest digital technology. Anybody who knows this famous town either as a home or as a favourite place to visit will find this film both amazing and educational.

• Gonzo - The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £11.72   |  Saving you £9.26 (106.07%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In this incredible new documentary, narrated by Johnny Depp, award-winning director Alex Gibney takes you on a trip through the psychedelic life of legendary author, Hunter S. Thompson.

• Our War | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This series tells the story of the conflict through the words and pictures of the soldiers themselves - from the close-knit group of friends sent to Helmand province facing war for the first time to the young platoon facing a terrifying struggle with improvised explosive devices. Our War - 10 Years in Afghanistan is an honest, emotional and powerful account of battle, friendship and loss.

• The Keith Floyd Cookery Collection - Far Flung Floyd | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Keith Floyd is a cooking institution known all over the UK and the rest of the world and he has an army of adoring fans. This new to DVD collection features all seven episodes of Far Flung Floyd. The eccentric but highly acclaimed British chef Keith Floyd has made himself a household name with TV audiences throughout the world by intuitive cooking in odd locations interspersed with entertaining comments and conversations. Floyd has branded himself a ""gastronaut"" to explain his style and approach and his series consist mainly of travelogues in the realm of food. Set in unusual locations Far Flung Floyd is a gastronomic voyage exploring the diversity of Asian cuisines cultures languages and landscapes. His entertaining demonstrations of food preparation take Floyd to locations as diverse as fishing boats mobile food kitchens and beaches to the most famous restaurants in the Far East his guests ranging from local families to national celebrities.

• The Royal Wedding - William & Catherine (BBC) | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £4.43   |  Saving you £8.56 (193.23%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Join HRH Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey as they celebrate the momentous occasion of their marriage. Relive and treasure their special day with this souvenir DVD containing two hours of coverage from the BBC. Includes Catherine's breathtaking arrival at Westminster Abbey the full ceremony the carriage procession and the traditional balcony appearance at Buckingham Palace.

• Wild China | Blu Ray | (15/09/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £17.01 (56.70%)   |  RRP £29.99

  With splendour scale and romance Wild China lifts the veil on the world's most enigmatic and magnificent country delving into its vibrant habitats to reveal a land of unbelievable natural complexity. Journey across China from the glittering peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see in pioneering images a dazzling array of mysterious beautiful wild and rare creatures.

• Lovers Guide 3D - Igniting Desire. Enjoy The Best Sex of Your Life | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Twenty years after the original The Lover's Guide exploded into the lives of the UK public the ground-breaking guide is back with another no-holds-barred exploration of the pleasures of love-making. And this time it's in 3D! To mark the anniversary of the series which has brought adult sex advice firmly into the mainstream the latest instalment has been created using cutting edge 3-D technology as the next stop in the sexual revolution. Here the audience is engaged with a never-before-seen sense of intimacy and massively richer viewpoint. After selling 1.5 million copies and being distributed in twenty two countries and in thirteen languages over its colourful twenty year history now bigger better and bolder than ever before The Lovers Guide 3D: Igniting Desire - Enjoy The Best Sex of Your Life will feature the voices of Gemma Bissix (Eastenders Hollyoaks Dancing on Ice) and Jeremy Edwards (Hollyoaks Holby City) and will take audiences to an altogether new level of love-making enlightenment... The Lover's Guide 3-D has been created by the original producers of The Lovers' Guide series - Robert Page and William Campbell and filmed by the award winning director Kenny Rye.

• The Claire Denis Collection | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This collection of films directed by the phenomenally talented Claire Denis serve as a showcase of her decade-spanning, award-winning career, beginning with her international breakthrough Chocolat and carrying through to her most recent work White Material. Brave, challenging and frequently controversial, Claire Denis is one of the most important French filmmakers of her generation and is the most critically acclaimed female director working in the world today. Also includes Beau Travail and Nnette et Boni.

• The Secret War: The Complete Original 1977 Series | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During the six long years of World War 2, behind the fighting forces, there was another war. a secret war. fought by scientists and engineers. Produced by the BBC in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum 'The Secret War' lifts the veil of secrecy on the crucial role science and intelligence played behind the lines in winning World War 2. Presented by William Woollard (Top Gear, Tomorrow's World) and largely based on the book 'Most Secret War' by Reginald Victor Jones (key consultant an.

• Fred Dibnah's Favourites Collection | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Fred brought great passion and excitement to everything that caught his eye when it came to the making of things. Iron and steel wood and fire the power of harnessed elements the brilliant genius of the creative mind. He had an enormous love and respect for crafted things from the widest bridge to the smallest nut and bolt. Fred conveys that passion in these three superb collections in which he travels explores and expounds on some of his favourite things. Titles Include: The Backyard The Building The Industrial Collections.

• Au Hasard Balthazar | Blu Ray | (31/12/2019) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Revered director Robert Bresson's celebrated masterpiece is the seemingly simple yet profoundly moving and deeply affecting tale of Balthazar, a donkey in rural France. Passed from owner to owner, in turn treated kindly and cruelly, always inhabiting a world beyond his control, Balthazar exists as a beast of burden, suffering for the sins of man. But through his silence and powerlessness - as well as Bresson's masterly touch - his trajectory becomes a stirring, transcendental allegory of purity and hope. A film unlike any other, Au Hasard Balthazar was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and has rightly taken its place in the pantheon of greatest French films ever made.

• Top Gear - Back in the Fast Lane - The Best of Series One and Two | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Having ceased to take itself seriously, Top Gear has now become the definitive weekly fantasy fix for petrol-heads everywhere. This compilation from the first and second series of the revamped show is mainly a chunk of four-wheeled fun that descends, more than occasionally, into downright silliness. Who would have it any other way? Unusually though, the cars are very nearly upstaged by the string of surprisingly good celebs who are wheeled on to fill the guest slot. We get Jay Kay, Harry Enfield, Jodie Kidd, Anne Robinson and many other luminaries. Several make genuinely funny contributions to the show, such as Jamie Oliver (who sends himself up something rotten while trying to prepare a salad in the back of a VW camper van as it careers around a test track), Patrick Stewart (Clarkson: "You're the most famous guest we've had on". Stewart: "This must be a terrible show, then.") and Boris Johnson, who admits to once having used a mobile phone while riding a bicycle. In the midst of all this, the programme still somehow gets around to beating seven colours of brake fluid out of assorted Jags, Lambos, Astons and so on. There are some show-stealing stunts-cum-sight gags, too, such as the reversal of Eddie Kidd's classic bus-jumping bike stunt that sees a bus being "jumped" over the same number of bikes. Buses, of course, stay in the air the way bricks don't. The caravan-towing speed record attempt is almost serious, except Hammond checks the small print and sees there's no restriction on what you can use to move the caravan. He chooses gravity and drops it from a crane. On the DVD: The Best of Top Gear also includes a fact file that gives the spec of each vehicle and a rather unexciting photo gallery. --Roger Thomas