Documentary

• Sunshine | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £16.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• The Travel Collection with Trevor Macdonald | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £11.99   |  Saving you £28.00 (233.53%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Secret Caribbean In this epic series legendary newsreader Trevor McDonald travels two thousand miles across the Caribbean experiencing the incredible extremes that make this region so unique. From Sir Richard Branson’s beautiful private island resort of Necker to Havana the vibrant capital of communist Cuba Sir Trevor’s journey takes in rare sightings of giant turtles on Grenada the aftermath of violent volcanic eruptions on Montserrat the world’s finest coffee beans in the Blue Mountains and Fort Augusta a notorious women’s prison holding British citizens convicted of drug smuggling. Finally Trevor returns home to Trinidad the island of his birth for the most spectacular day of the year carnival. This unmissable series is a rich and beautiful voyage of discovery. The Secret Mediterranean Spanning 3 continents and 21 countries – the Mediterranean has nurtured some of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity and is home to an intoxicating mix of cultures bound together by a sea unlike any other. In this epic and beautiful series legendary broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald embarks on a journey to discover the unexpected and the forgotten the extraordinary and the bizarre. From a trip aboard one of the world's most luxurious and spacious private yachts to meeting the movie mogul who brought Star Wars to Tunisia Trevor goes behind the scenes in locations that the average visitor could only dream of experiencing. Taking in Venice Istanbul the glamorous French Rivera and many more of the Mediterranean’s stunning locations this is the Mediterranean in all its glory and its infinite variety. The Mighty Mississippi Trevor McDonald embarks on a majestic 2 000 mile journey along the great Mississippi River to discover why it is the most important river in the United States. His journey begins in the Gulf of Mexico where the river flows into the sea and ends at the river’s source near the Canadian Border. Throughout his voyage Trevor uncovers how the river has helped define America.

• Monarchy - Series 3 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dr. David Starkey continues his epic journey through the history of the British monarchy.

• London 2012 Paralympic Games | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Returning to the country where they began more than 60 years ago, the London 2012 Paralympic Games placed London and the UK on the world stage hosting 11 days of fierce competition for 4,200 athletes from 166 countries, (including more than 300 GB athletes). Hailed an absolute triumph, these games shed a light on the superhuman capabilities of the world's Paralympians who, like their able-bodied sporting counterparts, are set apart from the rest of us by their staggering ability, not their disability. With more than 2.7 million tickets sold, and combined television audiences of more than 39 million, these games brought disability into the mainstream - marking them as one of the most significant and influential sporting events to be staged in Britain for many years. Clare Balding presents the most awe-inspiring moments from each day of the Games. Special Features: Lexi Classification Guide Channel 4 Meet the Superhumans Promo (TBC)

• Perlasca: The Courage Of A Just Man | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £7.73   |  Saving you £7.02 (117.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Luca Zingaretti stars in this made-for-TV Italian-language drama which brings to life the true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian who risked his life to save Jews in Second World War Hungary. Though Perlasca (Zingaretti) was initially a supporter of Italian fascism and fought for Mussolini in East Africa during the Italo-Abyssinian War, he became increasingly disenchanted with the doctrine as it merged with Hitler's anti-Semitic vision. In 1944, while based in Budapest for the purposes of ...

• Convoy | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A tale of the highs and lows of life protecting the vital convoys between America & England during WWII.

• Ken Burns - The Civil War Commemorative Edition | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Civil War: Commemorative Edition is a remarkable series directed by Emmy Award-winner Ken Burns, telling the dramatic story of America's struggle to preserve democracy by erasing the stain of slavery: but at a cost of 620,000 lives. Over 11 gripping hours Burns traces the course of the U.S. Civil War, from the abolitionist movement through all the major battles to the death of President Lincoln and the beginnings of Reconstruction.

• The Eye Has To Travel: Diana Vreeland | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Eye Has To Travel is an intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of one of the most influential women of the 20th Century, Diana Vreeland, an enduring icon whose influence changed the face of fashion, beauty, art, publishing and culture forever. During her fifty year reign as the “Empress of Fashion,” she established herself as a controversial visionary who had an astonishing ability to invent and discover fashion ideas, designers, personalities and photographers.

• Pub Quiz Vol.2 | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (-12.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pour yourself a drink and get ready to enjoy the ultimate pub quiz in your own living room. You'll have just 10 seconds to answer each multiple choice on-screen question. There are 500 questions some easy some frustratingly tricky. Test your wits in rounds such as: general knowledge science & nature geography art & literature pop music entertainment and history. You can have as many players as you like - all you'll need is a pen and piece of paper. Cheers!

• A Dog Called Money | Blu Ray | (09/12/2019) from £10.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Award-winning war photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy explores the creative inspiration behind PJ Harvey's album The Hope Six Demolition Project in this arresting, collage-style documentary charting their travels together in Afghanistan, Kosovo and the US. Dreamlike, elliptical and intimate, the film provides a stunning portrait of Harvey's creative process and unprecedented access to an enigmatic musical icon.

• Two Fat Ladies - Complete Tribute | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £69.99   |  Saving you £-40.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Two of Britain's most colourful characters present this highly entertaining series. Our Two Fat Ladies roam the country on their classic motorbike and sidecar getting into all sorts of hilarious adventures along the way in search of the best ingredients for their delicious recipes. Featuring a tribute to and starring the late Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson-Wright this series was originally broadcast on BBC Two between 1996 and 1998

• The Planet Collection (Planet Earth & Frozen Planet) | Blu Ray | (08/12/2011) from £28.59   |  Saving you £24.40 (85.34%)   |  RRP £52.99

  Two of the greatest natural history series ever seen on television. Narrated by world renowned naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, these two series combine stunning photography, breathtaking landscapes and captivating wildlife. Planet EarthThe definitive look at the diversity of our planet combines rare action, unimaginable scale, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. Frozen PlanetAmbitious and epic in scale, this comprehensive portrait of the great wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctic utilises the latest technology to capture groundbreaking imagery of survival in the most extreme and remote regions of our planet.

• Dinosaur with Stephen Fry | DVD | (22/05/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hiroshima | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A dramatised documentary exploring the humanity and the horror of the first atomic attack. It was the defining moment of the 20th Century - the scientific technological military and political gamble of the world's first atomic attack. This drama-documentary attempts to do what no other film has done before - to show what it is like to live through a nuclear explosion millisecond by millisecond. Set in the three weeks from the first test explosion in New Mexico to the eventual d

• London in the Fifties Part 1 | DVD | (01/10/2009) from £12.56   |  Saving you £1.43 (11.39%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Churchill is Prime Minister and the South Bank hosts The Festival of Britain as London emerges from the grim years of austerity

• Paranormal Egypt | DVD | (10/05/2009) from £10.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Having gained exclusive access to some of Egypt's most ancient and sacred locations award-winning historian/presenter Tessa Dunlop and the U.K.'s most acclaimed medium Derek Acorah come together in this ground-breaking series to try to shed new light on Egypt's mysteries with a unique blend of history and paranormal investigation. The series with the assistance of many of the world's leading authorities on Egyptian history delves into one of the most fascinating ancient cultures in the world to answer questions that historians have puzzled over for centuries. Visiting legendary locations such as The Valley of Kings the tombs of Tutankhamun and Rameses III the Pyramids and the Sphinx who will Derek make contact with? Will his psychic connections bring us closer to those people that we can't find in the history books? Will the team finally unravel some of the mysteries of murder and intrigue that have plagued historians for years?

• Let's Get Lost | Blu Ray | (07/04/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Renowned filmmaker Bruce Weber's Academy Award® nominated documentary follows the late jazz great, Chet Baker, across the US and continental Europe on what turned out to be the last tour, and year, of his life. Weber weaves together a fascinating visual portrait, complete with electrifying studio shots, rare performance footage, some of Baker's last recording sessions, excerpts of the young, chic Chet in early Italian B movies, plus candid interviews with friends, family, lovers, and the legendary musician himself. Frank and revealing, this stunning HD feature explores Baker's elusive, digressive nature, whilst celebrating his timeless talent; a man whose musical virtuosity, whether in his golden youth or premature old age, always shone through.

• Ufo's | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Without doubt this 3 DVD Collection is a well needed corrective to the debunking propaganda of mainstream media that passes for objective analysis - Let The Truth Be Told! DISC 1 50 Years of Denial This program tells it straight in good chronological order gets to the issues and as such is an indispensible introduction to the subject. The highlights include Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell revealing that the Roswell UFO crash of 1947 was a real incident and discusses the 50 years of cover-up that followed. DISC 2 The Secret NASA Transmissions On March 11 2000 in front of an assembled audience of UFO enthusiasts and the media evidence was presented that would appear to indicate the existence of not one but two types of unknown extraterrestrial lifeforms. Labeled 'Phenomena One' and 'Phenomena Two' by a man who spent several years recording and logging thousands of hours of NASA space shuttle transmissions this historic footage and the story that lay behind its discovery can now be revealed DISC 3 The Secret Evidence That We Are Not Alone MJ-12 refers to an elite TOP SECRET military group called into action by United States presidential order to investigate and conceal real alien and UFO encounters. This story and the trail of scientific discovery and followed proves that the official US government position on UFOs has been and still is a carefully orchestrated deception designed to hide the most extraordinary secret in recorded history.

• RoGoPaG (Masters of Cinema) (DVD) | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £10.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (54.60%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Conceived by the legendary Italian producer Alfredo Bini, the multi-director portmanteau film Let's Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG (Laviamoci il cervello: RoGoPaG) brought together four esteemed directors of European cinema to contribute comic episodes reflective of the swinging post-boom era. The resulting omnibus collectively examines social anxieties around sex, nuclear war, religion, urbanisation - and the promise of a modern cinema.Roberto Rossellini's Illibatezza (Virginity) follows an airline stewardess plagued by an obsessed American tourist whose 8mm camera enables the indulgence of a personal, and solipsistic, vision of the Ideal. Jean-Luc Godard's Il nuovo mondo (The New World) takes place in an Italian-dubbed Paris beset by nuclear fallout, and wittily chronicles the changes that take place in the lives - and medicine cabinet - of a handsome young couple. Pier Paolo Pasolini's scandalous La ricotta (Ricotta, as in the curded cheese) presents the goings-on around a film shoot devoted to the Crucifixion and presided over by none other than Orson Welles (playing a kind of stand-in for Pasolini himself); it is this episode that landed Pasolini with a suspended four-month prison sentence. Lastly, Ugo Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante (Free-Range Chicken) depicts a middle-class Milanese family flirting with the purchase of real-estate and engaging catastrophically with an antagonistic consumerist infrastructure.

• For All Mankind | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £19.59   |  Saving you £-3.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  During the Apollo lunar missions from 1968 to 1972 those onboard were given 16mm cameras and told to film anything and everything they could in space in orbit and on the surface of the moon itself. Two decades later filmmaker Al Reinert went into the NASA vaults to create this extraordinary compendium of their journeys and experiences. Assembled from hundreds of hours of the astronauts' own footage with a soundtrack made up of their memories and a specially composed score by Brian Eno the film takes the form of one journey to the moon and back again building with elegant simplicity and exquisite construction to create an overpowering vision of human endeavour and miraculous experience. At once intimate and awe-inspiring For All Mankind is a genuinely mesmerising first-hand document of one of the high points of the 20th century. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Criterion's beautiful high-definition restoration of the film for its UK home viewing premi''re in a comprehensive director-approved special edition on DVD.