Historian Niall Ferguson asks how the Western Civilization came to dominate the rest of the world during the 15th century but now is the West about to be overtaken by the rest of the world?He reveals the key elements of the west's success in six application: competition; science; the property-owning democracy; modern medicine; the consumer society; and the Protestant work ethic.
When We Were Kings The true story of the legendary 'Rumble in the Jungle' of 1974 in which Muhammad Ali endured a titanic battle with George Foreman. The fight took place in Zaire amidst a wealth of publicity and political intrigue and this film pieced together over 20 years chronicles it all. Featuring the music of the Fugees James Brown and BB King When We Were Kings won an Oscar for Best Feature Documentary. I Am Ali An intimate and heart-warming look at the man behind the legend--as we've never seen Ali before. I Am Ali is told through exclusive unprecedented access to Ali's personal archive of ‘audio journals' combined with touching interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends including his daughters son ex-wife and brother plus legends of the boxing community including Mike Tyson George Foreman and Gene Kilroy. Experience Ali's extraordinary story as a fighter lover brother father--told from the inside for the very first time. The Trials of Muhammad Ali The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers the explosive crossroads of Ali's life. When Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali his conversion to Islam and refusal to serve in the Vietnam War leave him banned from boxing and facing a fve-year prison sentence. Ali's choice of belief and conscience over fame and fortune resonates far beyond the boxing ring striking issues of race faith and identity that continue to confront us all today.
There's a new forensic lead in America's hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers. More than thirty years after his killing spree San Francisco investigators return to the evidence to see if DNA testing canreveal the identity of ""The Zodiac Killer"".
An account of the defiant actions of perhaps Britain's greatest leader. This authorised documentary chronicles Sir Winston Churchill's war years.
Finally Hrnblowr is taking back what's his. The first ever Beastie Boys live performance ever to be released on DVD in the UK! On October 9 2004 Beastie Boys handed out 50 cameras to audience members at their sold-out performance in New York's famed Madison Square Garden venue. These 50 passionate different perspectives take you inside the world of a live Beastie Boys show like no other music performance film...
Baichwal's award-winning documentary feature offers an amazing and alarming insight into the human and enviromental costs of massive industrial expansion.
Jack Hargreaves loved a good story, and the story of how the lost episodes of Out of Town came back to light is one that would have fascinated him. The story began on 31st December 1981. The Southern ITV franchise was at an end, and Jack packed up and left Southampton TV Centre for the last time. He had been working there non-stop since 1959, and would not return to the building for a number of years. For over 20 years Out Of Town was a television programme that provided a window on country ...
This DVD offers three exceptional features: interactivity multimedia programming capabilities and stunning digital playback quality. The Baby Shakespeare Digital Board book takes advantage of all three. Now showing in the Theatre is Baby Shakespeare the award winning one-of-a-kind visual and auditory field trip into the rhythm of classic poems and the beauty of nature. Your child will discover 12 common words within the rich context of poetry and real-world images. Or
Mirroring the savage beauty, maverick originality and vivacity of his design, McQueen is an intimate revelation of Alexander [Lee] McQueen's own personal and professional world, both tortured and inspired. It is a film which celebrates a radical and mesmerizing genius of profound influence and shows his rags-to-riches story as a modern-day fairy tale laced with the gothic.
Samsara Filmed over a period of five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on 70mm film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders. Baraka A stunning collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life, the majority of which involve humanity's many religions.
Tom Volf's MARIA BY CALLAS is the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek/American opera singer completely in her own words. Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs-nearly all of which have never been shown to the public-the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose from humble beginnings in New York City to become a glamorous international superstar and one of the greatest artists of all time. Assembling the material for the film took director Volf four years of painstaking research.
Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced in the 1960s by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas - replacing the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become largely irrelevant with the advent of television news broadcasts. Marvellously concise and beautifully shot, these 'slice of life' colour featurettes - numbering over 500 episodes in total - presented cinemagoers with varied aspects of contemporary British life.Digitally restored from the original film elements, this volume presents 45 memorable films offering fascinating insights into varied aspects of British military life, with many unseen since their first screening. From the Black Arrows' daring acrobatics to military survival techniques and from sea mine clearance to the valour of Victoria Cross holders - this exceptional three disc set features coverage of significant military achievements from throughout the 1960s.
THE BATTLES OF CORONEL AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS (DVD) The Great War at Sea A film by Walter Summers This dramatic reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the Great War is one of the finest films of the British silent era. The Battle of Coronel, off the coast of Chile, was a triumph for German Admiral von Spee and the first defeat of the British navy for a hundred years, The retaliatory strike was instigated six weeks later by Admiral Fisher, who sent two large battlecruisers, HMS.
A profile of the Memphis Belle the famous WW2 plane using previously unseen colour footage.
Originally made in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Frank Capra series 'Why We Fight' 'Battle Of China' focuses on one of the forgotten theatres of the second World War China. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 gave the world a first hand taste of modern warfare. The Japanese atrocities in every territory they overran firmed the resolve of the 'free world' to fight back.
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of fairies and other creatures.
The story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed.
Alan Titchmarsh discovers the big moments and the master gardeners that shaped our landscape and shows us how to achieve a little piece of the spectacular in our own back garden. In each DVD of Alan s Garden Secrets we get the opportunity to visit one of Britain s most spectacular showpiece gardens that usually remain hidden from public view. These gardens will be routed in and influenced by a specific era in British gardening s evolution and as Alan meets the owners, custodians and curious characters that maintain and develop them, he will discover how the garden was inspired and influenced by the master gardeners of the era. As we move through the big moments in gardening history Alan will be able to contrast the work of contemporary master garden designers such as Piet Oudolf, Tom Stuart-Smith and Christopher Bradley-Hole with those famed for shaping vast areas of the British landscape such as Lancelot Capability Brown, Humphry Repton and William Kent, who planted up our landscape in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, giving us the outlook we enjoy today.
Twelve hard-hitting shows from the definitive current affairs programme. 1. Mick Jagger (1967 an interview with Mick after the quashing of his jail sentence for drug possession) 2. End Of A Revolution? (1967 a portrait of Bolivia and the events leading to Che Guevara's death) 3. The Demonstration (1968 London demonstrations against the Vietnam war) 4. The Quiet Mutiny (1970 John Pilger Vietnam documentary) 5. The Man Who Stole Uganda (1971 Idi Amin's rise to power) 6. Death Of A
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