Documentary

• Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (6 DVD Gift Pack) | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Relive the fall of one of history's greatest civilizations. Rome: Rise And Fall Of An Empire chronicles the story of one of history's greatest empires from its first major battle to its remarkable military feats and through its eventual fall. Told from the point of view of the Roman people under violent attack HISTORY takes viewers inside the fiery battles of a civilisation crumbling in the face of brutal invasions. From the first Roman-Barbarian War through the great empire's collapse HISTORY follows each harrowing moment of the famed empire's slow decline and the human cost. Rome was not only a city of battles but also one of incredible engineering feats. We take a close look at what set Rome apart from the rest of the ancient world uncovering the hidden treasures and secrets of the city.

• Creature Designers - The Frankenstein Complex | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From King Kong to Avatar, from Star Wars to Lord of the Rings, movie creatures have never been as popular as they are today! Yet the art of creating monsters for the big screen is as old as cinema itself... From early experiments with apes and dinosaurs to the birth of special make-up effects, from the pinnacle of animatronics to the digital revolution, CREATURE DESIGNERS: THE FRANKENSTEIN COMPLEX explores a century of human imagination, cinematic thrills and wonders. Based on interviews of all the greatest artists in the genre and hours of exclusive footage from classics like Gremlins, The Abyss, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, Spider-Man 2 ..., the documentary focuses on the stunning relationship between the creatures and their makers: like modern Frankensteins, special effects wizards create life out of raw material, art and complex machinery. Extras: Soundtrack Designing the Opening Credits A conversation with John Landis & Joe Dante A conversation with Steve Johnson & John Vulich Stills Gallery Guillermo Del Toro Masterclass

• Take That - Beautiful World Live | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The reunited boy band now fully grown recorded live at London's O2 Arena in December 2007 during their sold out tour which saw them play to over half a million people in the UK alone.

• Lost In La Mancha | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lost in La Mancha is not so much a "making of", more an "unmaking of" documentary which follows director Terry Gilliam through eight weeks of pre-production, six days of filming and finally the aftermath as his long planned feature The Man Who Killed Don Quixote falls apart. Documentarians Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe--the team who produced the excellent feature-length The Hamster Factor about Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys--reveal a tragi-comedy about the director's struggle to bring to life another of his wondrous stories of madness and sanity, fantasy and reality. Unfortunately Gilliam's take on Spanish classic Don Quixote is mirrored all too closely by reality, as everything goes wrong, from noise-ridden locations to flash-flooding to a seriously ill star, Jean Rochefort. Gilliam goes from boyish enthusiasm to bad tempered frustration to near despair, the victim of circumstances beyond his control which turn a cherished dream into a farcical nightmare. Meanwhile, we get glimpses of what could have been and are left hoping that someday, somehow, Gilliam will realise his remarkable vision. --Gary S Dalkin

• Bowling For Columbine : Special Edition (Two Disc Set) | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £7.10   |  Saving you £12.89 (181.55%)   |  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.

• Exhibition: Manet: Portraying Life | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £16.05   |  Saving you £1.94 (12.09%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Manet's portraits are rarely afforded such close attention as they are given in this exquisitely crafted and insightful DVD presented by art expert Tim Marlow. Manet's portraiture comprised about half his work giving life on canvas to family friends and the literary political and artistic figures of the day. The Region 0 DVD includes a detailed excellently constructed biography of Manet and a delightful picture of 19th century Parisian society. Art experts and enthusiasts provide their analysis and the viewer is allowed a rare look behind-the-scenes at the preparation and curating of a major Manet exhibition. Bonus extras include deleted scenes and interviews with special guests and the director.

• From the Sea to the Land Beyond | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £11.14   |  Saving you £8.85 (79.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the Sea to the Land Beyond is a unique collaboration between award-winning filmmaker Penny Woolcock and one of Britain's best loved bands, British Sea Power. Composed from over 100 years of footage drawn from the BFI National Film Archive, the film is a portrait of our unique coastline and the role it plays in our lives - during wartime, on our holidays and as a hive of activity during the industrial age. The film is an evocative and sometimes nostalgic piece of work that inspires people to think about their own experiences of the British coast and boasts a stirring score composed and performed by British Sea Power, a band renowned for the epic scope of their music. Special features: 'Making of' documentary. Short films with introductions from Penny Woolcock: Beside the Seaside (Marion Grierson, 1935), Workers Weekend (Ralph Eaton, 1943), Mitchell and Kenyon 237: Cunard Leaving for America (1901), Caller Herrin' (Alan Harper, 1947) Footage of British Sea Power recording the score. Producer Mark Atkin presenting a talk on the making of the film.

• Royal Navy at War - A Sailor's View: King George V Class Battleships 1941-42 | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Royal Navy - is a unique DVD series, collecting together rare or previously unseen and unavailable films from the Royal Navy's long and distinguished history. As well as providing film records of RN ships, weaponry exercises, tactics, training and facilities, it also offers an invaluable 'behind the scenes' look at life in the Royal Navy. Highlights include the King George V being launched, at anchor in Scapa Flow, a look below decks and sailing in wild seas in the Arctic Circle in 1942. The Prince of Wales is featured with extensive coverage of her ferrying Winston Churchill to Newfoundland as well as sailing for the Far East and with the Repulse at Singapore. The Anson is seen on the Clyde sailing for Scapa Flow, while the Howe is seen being fitted out, during her commissioning service and exercising her guns.

• Heston's Mission Impossible:Heston Blumenthal - Channel 4 TV Series | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Heston Blumenthal uses his maverick culinary genius to dramatically re-invent food production at four great British institutions. Heston Blumenthal is one of the very best chefs in the world. He's made his name with original and, some might say, downright bizarre dishes served at his famous restaurant, The Fat Duck : snail porridge, egg & bacon ice-cream and fish n' chips (served with an iPod)! Now Heston is taking his totally unique approach to food out to the wider world. In each episode,...

• Step Up 1-4 | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £7.94   |  Saving you £25.04 (505.86%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Step Up: Incredible dancing and awesome music fuel Step Up, the exhilarating and inspiring movie starring Channing Tatum ( She's The Man ) who sizzles as Tyler Gage, a rough and streetwise hunk with raw talent. When Tyler finds himself doing community service at a school for the performing arts, he also finds Nora, a beautiful and privileged classically trained dancer who's searching for a temporary replacement for her injured.

• For All Mankind | Blu Ray | (24/06/2019) from £21.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy's challenge of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Al Reinert's documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who travelled to the moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Fifty years later, it remains the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema yet made about this earth-shaking event. Features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by producer-director Al Reinert (with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack) Audio commentary featuring Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon An Accidental Gift: The Making of For All Mankind, a new documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists Don Pickard, Mike Gentry, Morris Williams, and Chuck Welch On Camera, a collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts New video programme about Bean's artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings NASA audio highlights and lift-off footage Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission control specialists PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert

• Taxi to the Dark Side | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £6.96   |  Saving you £3.03 (43.53%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

• His Land | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Shot entirely on location in Israel Cliff Richard goes to many of the Promised Land's most spectacular and holy places exploring the meaning of some of the most familar bible stories.

• Brasilintime: Batacuda Com Discos | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• COI Collection Vol 4: Stop! Look! Listen! | DVD | (13/11/2012) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Central Office of Information (COI) was established in 1946 and has produced thousands of films that reflect the changing face of a nation and world in flux. The fourth Volume of the BFI's COI collection explores the government department's Health safety and welfare films. Utilising some of the finest talents in British documentary film making titles such as Thirty Miles an Hour (1946) Lonely Water (1973) Apaches (1977) Drive Carefully Darling (1975) are amongst the most inventive and fondly remembered titles in the COI's distinguished oeuvre. Stop! Look! Listen! makes available on DVD for the first time some classic longer form films along with a selection short public information films and commercials. But please...don't have nightmares!

• Pump It Up, Move It, Lose It | DVD | (26/12/2011) from £7.87   |  Saving you £15.11 (309.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Track listing: Warm Up 1. Avicii - Fade Into Darkness2. Wretch 32 - Traktor3. Fredrik Nyberg - Breaking Up Tone 1. Wretch 32 & Example - Unorthodox2. Vato Gonzalez - Badman Riddim (Jump)3. Alex Gaudino & Kelly Rowland - What A Feeling Dancemix 1 1. JLS & Tinie Tempah - Eyes Wide Shut2. Example - Stay Awake 3. Wolfgang Gartner & Will.I.Am - Forever4. Club Madness - Party Rock Anthem Dancemix 2 1. Ray Foxx & Lovelle - La Musica (The Trumpeter)2. Calvin Harris & Kelis - Bounce3. Snoop Dogg & David Guetta - Sweat4. Lucenzo & Qwote & Pitbull - Danza Kuduro (Throw Your Hands Up) Dancemix 3 1. Tiesto Vs Diplo & Busta Rhymes - C'Mon2. Time Takers - She Blows (Whistle Song)3. Laidback Luke vs Example - Natural Disaster4. DJ Fresh & Sian Evans - Louder Legs, Bums & Tums 1. Nadia Ali - Rapture2. Wrecth 32 & Josh Kumra - Don't Go 3. Toddla T & Shola Ama - Take It Back Stretch 1. Yasmin - Finish Line2. Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar

• The Gentleman Gunmen | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set during the Second World War two Irish brothers arrive in London to launch an IRA bombing campaign but one of them begins to have doubts about their mission. John Mills and Dirk Bogarde play the brothers.

• Bleach - Series 1 Vol.2 | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £11.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (41.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For as long as he can remember Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see ghosts. But when he meets Rukia a Soul Reaper from the Soul Society who battles evil spirits known as Hollows his life changes forever. Now with a new-found wealth of spiritual energy Ichigo discovers his true calling: to protect the living and the dead from evil at all costs!

• Wwii In Colour: Commemoration | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  5 DVD box set featuring rare and unseen World War II footage in colour. Runtime: (approx) 650 mins. Comes packaged in a special gift tin.

• Every Little Thing | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The tranquil woods of the Loire Valley embrace the La Borde psychiatric clinic an asylum in the truest sense of the word where patients find sanctuary and repose. Patients and staff work together in rehearsals and preparations for their annual summer play. This year they perform the modernist absurdist classic ""Operette "" by Witold Gombrowicz whose dialogue is more nonsensical than that of the patients themselves.