Documentary

• People Like Us | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £7.46   |  Saving you £12.53 (167.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The spoof documentary has long been a source of television comedy, but few series can claim to have hit the target as accurately as the BBC's People Like Us. The six episodes of the first series offer moment after moment of well observed, thoughtful and hilarious humour. Taking the fly-on-the-wall documentary genre as its inspiration, it focuses on the everyday lives of a range of different people: businessman, teacher, policeman, photographer, estate agent and solicitor. The comedy walks the line between the observational and the absurd (much of the dialogue is similar to that used in The Day Today) but mixes the two to perfection. The man behind the camera is the hapless Roy Mallard, played by Chris Langham, but he is seldom seen. It was the type of role that Langham was to reprise in the film The Big Tease but for now, People Like Us remains his finest hour. Have fun also spotting the number of actors who would go onto greater things in the likes of Smack the Pony and Rescue Me. --Phil Udell

• Great British Aircraft | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Many consider the prolific British engineer Sir George Cayley to be one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics as it was he who designed the first actual model of an aeroplane. It was a British man, Sir Frank Whittle, who is credited with single handedly invented the turbojet engine! From the first aircraft they produced, to the impressive array of military aircraft and bombers and the incredible productions today the British have always played a very important role in the aeronautic industry. As early as 1912, British firm Vickers were experimenting with machine gun carrying aircraft and it was World War I when aircraft were used on such a large scale for the first time. Skip forward to World War II and we had produced incredible bomber planes such as the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire. 1969 saw the first flight of Concorde, a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airline enter service. It was developed by British Aircraft Corporation & Aérospatiale under an Anglo-French treaty. With the advances in technology, we are now in the designers golden age and witness the production of incredible engineering feats such as the Airbus A380, a double deck wide body four engine jet airliner jointly developed by European countries including the United Kingdom.

• Death of a Gentleman | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  What would you do if something you loved was dying? What if the sport that created your heroes and the back-story to your life, was in danger of disappearing? Test cricket is a game that has no right to exist in the 21st century. The five day game is the purest form of the second most popular sport on earth, representative of tradition, history and identity. Yet as the short attention spans of a new generation dictate immediacy, the Test game is in danger of being swamped by its shorter, sexier, more financially viable cousin ˜Twenty20'. Money corrupts the best of intentions, and as cricket's administrators rub their hands with glee, the Gentleman's game is now a product left at the back of the shelf. Two cricket fans who became journalists, Old Etonian Sam Collins and larrikin Aussie Jarrod Kimber, from opposite ends of the social and geographic scale but united by their love of Test cricket, join forces to try to help save it. They embark on a journey across the cricketing empire to find the answer to the question ˜Who really cares about Test cricket?' They talk to the players, ex-players, broadcasters, journalists, administrators and fans. They venture, often uninvited, into boardrooms, offices, hotel rooms and even the home of cricket itself, Lord's, looking for answers as to who is responsible, and what are they doing to save their game. Along the way they befriend journeyman cricketer Eddie Cowan as he prepares to make his Test debut for Australia in front of 70,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Eddie is the guy doing what they always dreamed of. His infectious love for Test cricket helps convince them that Test cricket is still relevant, that it is worth saving. They travel around Australia with Eddie and experience his ups and downs on tour, watch the Australia vs. India Test series, journey to India to take a closer look at the IPL, bug famous cricket people in the UK and look at open corruption in Sri Lanka as they try to piece together a picture for the future of Test cricket. They run into ogres, well-meaning automatons and the feverishly self- obsessed. Everyone passes the buck. As Eddie's future teeters in the balance, so too does the future of Test cricket. As a story of deceit, incompetence and greed unfolds; one man is living his dream, while two others are trying to keep theirs from dying. Death of a Gentleman is not a nostalgic look back at a sport that professionals played against amateurs while stopping for tea. It's a modern morality tale about a future where sport and money collide, India as a super-power, the curse of the professional administrator and set in a world where fans are better connected to (but more disconnected from) their heroes than ever before. More than that, it is a final call; not just to cricket fans and administrators, but everyone in a rapidly changing world. If you care about something that's in danger, then don't pass the buck, do something about it. Before it's too late.

• Becoming Bond | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), despite having never acted a day in his life. Then after being offered the next seven Bond films and a $1 million signing bonus, he turned it all down...

• Great German Battleships Of World War 2 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £7.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (22.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This fascinating DVD with archive footage stills and interviews with German ex-Naval officers and seamen concentrates on the exploits of the famous Bismarck. This is followed byan in-depth portrait of the mightiest and most famous German warships of World War Two including the big sea battles they encountered.

• Great Continental Railway Journeys: Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £12.95   |  Saving you £17.04 (131.58%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Steered by his 1913 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, Michael Portillo journeys through a prosperous pre-war Europe of emperors and kings, pomp and elegance. A continent whose industrialists, factories and mines had created wealth, whose scientists and engineers were discovering and constructing the marvellous and whose artists were challenging old ways, whilst intellectuals plotted revolution. This early 20th century handbook opened up an exotic world to the Edwardian tourist; fr.

• Zabriski Point | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As a postcard from a bygone era, Michelangelo Antonioni's sole American movie is amazing to look at. This was the Italian director's first film since his English-language breakthrough Blowup (1966), which had been a masterpiece that captivated general and art-house audiences alike. Expectations understandably ran high, and as a visual experience Zabriskie Point delivered. Here was this foreigner's eye, among the most distinctive in world cinema, looking at city and desert, streets and backroads, office towers, mini-marts, police cars, airfields, and nonstop signage--the textures of U.S. life transliterated into something alien and askew. Revisited decades later, that's the aspect of Zabriskie Point that comes fascinatingly to the fore.

• The Golden Compass | Blu Ray | (28/04/2008) from £7.92   |  Saving you £22.07 (278.66%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.

• The Story of Film: A New Generation | DVD | (14/02/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• History's Greatest Wars | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  VOLUME 1 - THE ZULU WARS 1879The Redcoat campaign in Zululand in 1879 holds a special place in the pantheon of military history. Its two most famous battles - the dreadful slaughter at Isandlwana and the heroic defence of Rorke's Drift, still hold an enduring fascination. These epic encounters are laced with tales of courage and valour on both sides. The incredible determination of the Zulu warriors and the sheer professionalism and bravery of the British soldiers ensures that the Zulu Wars m...

• John Pilger - The War You Don't See | DVD | (17/12/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Following his award-winning documentary The War on Democracy John Pilger's new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war. The War You Don't See traces the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of Hiroshima and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. As weapons and propaganda are ever more sophisticated the very nature of war has developed into an 'electronic battlefield'. But who is the real enemy today?

• Flee | Blu Ray | (11/04/2022) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. For the first time, he's ready to open up to his close friend, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, whose beautiful film recounts Amin's extraordinary story through the lens of animation.Product FeaturesTrailerDirector Q&A

• Jimmy's Farm - Series One | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £20.16   |  Saving you £-0.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  28 year-old Essex boy Jimmy Doherty wants to be a pig farmer and make the best sausages money can buy. But he knows less about farming than pigs know about flying. The closest he's been to animal husbandry is studying insects at university. Undaunted he's chucked in city life borrowed ''55 000 and bought a derelict farm in Suffolk. His parents aren't pleased. His girlfriend Michaela thinks he's mad. It's the start of the summer and Jimmy is about to find out just what it takes to bring home the bacon... As seen on the BBC.

• Great Canal Journeys with Gyles Brandreth & Sheila Hancock | DVD | (04/10/2021) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brand new boaters Sheila and Gyles embark on their tour of London's waterways, starting on the upper reaches of the River Thames - a paradise of unspoiled nature, royal retreats and river regattas.Sheila and Gyles also take a trip along the Lee Navigation, tackle their first manual lock and some terrifyingly tight turns, and visit the Royal Gunpowder Mills.

• Ultrasuede - In Search of Halston | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £11.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (42.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  No one represented the 70s quite like legendary designer Halston and, in his new documentary, Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston filmmaker Whitney Sudler -Smith takes us on a fabulous fun-and-fact filled journey through that man's life and times.Smith has had a lifelong fascination with the 70s look and lifestyle and, using his self-confessed era envy to great effect, he reconstructs, recaptures, and revels in the glories of this truly great American artist.

• American Masters: Mae West: Dirty Blonde DVD | DVD | (11/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ennio | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Oscar®-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso), ENNIO celebrates the life and legacy of the legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who passed away on 6 July 2020. Through interviews with directors, screenwriters, musicians, songwriters, critics and collaborators, Tornatore's documentary retraces the life and works of the cinema's most popular and prolific 20th century composer - who wrote over 500 scores for film & television and sold over 70 million records - from his cinema debut with Sergio Leone, to winning an Academy Award for The Hateful Eight in 2016. The disc will include Guiseppe Tornatore discusses the making of Ennio .

• Sas Survival Secrets - Guardians Against Terror | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £6.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Using ex-SAS men this title is a vividly detailed recreation of a typical close protection mission. A four man SAS team is assigned to protect an uncooperative British minister on a foreign state visit. At first the team's meticulous planning pays off but they are overruled on security by local forces. When the Minister and foreign leaders are kidnapped and held hostage the team must don their 'Black Kit' and launch a rescue mission...On the mission Eddie Stone is joined by John McAleese MM a real life veteran of the Iranian Embassy assault team and a man with over twenty years of experience of providing close protection services to both the British PM and members of Royalty. Together they reveal both the secrets of successful close protection and the SAS techniques for hostage rescue.

• Diamond Jubilee - Highlights Programme | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £6.18   |  Saving you £3.81 (61.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Between 2nd - 5th June 2012, the nation came together to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. This commemorative release contains highlights from the remarkable Jubilee Thames Pageant and the Service of Thanksgiving.The Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant:To the delight of the crowds lining the banks of the Thames, decorated craft of all descriptions brought the river to life in a joyous and colourful display accompanied by chiming bells, spectacular fireworks and a naval gun salute.Service Of Thanksgiving & Carriage Procession:,/b>Including all the highlights of the service at St Paul's Cathedral as well as the magnificent pomp and pageantry of the royal carriages' return journey, the appearance of the Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony and the RAF flypast.

• The Legendary Willie Nelson - The Man and His Music | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  From this faltering start the road ahead was never going to be a smooth one, but his desire to make music overrode any everyday issues such as earning enough to pay the bills or feed his family. It was this dogged dedication to his music that in 1960 spurred him to drive to Nashville armed with his guitar, a clutch of overdue bills and a 19 year old Buick that was about to push its last piston.Travelling on guts and determination he arrived at his destination and the world began to benefit from his songwriting wizardry with hits recorded by Patsy Kline, Faron Young and Ray Price. But it was his voice that became his passport to fame; he was ranked 25 in an elite list of the 30 bestselling artists shifting a massive 31 million albums worldwide. Not a bad achievement for a guy with a dodgy Buick!