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• Leatherheads | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £7.31   |  Saving you £11.67 (270.14%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Oscar winners George Clooney and Renee Zellweger go head-to-head in a quick-witted romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's nascent pro-football league in 1925.

• Natural World - Lobo - The Wolf That Changed America | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This is a true story about a man who came to New Mexico in 1893 to kill a wolf but ended up saving the American wilderness instead. Ernest Thompson Seaton's epic duel became a pivotal moment in American history helping to change the way people see wolves forever. Based on the personal diaries of Ernest himself and incorporating dramatic early footage this film presents the methods he used to track wolves and to finally catch the big prize Lobo himself. This is a simple true story of a unique meeting of man and animal set against the remarkable backdrop of the very wild west.

• Anthrax - Through Time P.O.V. | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  One of the most popular bands of the 1980's thrash metal scene Anthrax are notable for combining metal with rap and hardcore music early on. This DVD contains 6 of the bands 10 UK hit singles never previously released on DVD and also features both live and interview footage. Tracklisting: 1. Metal Thrashing Mad 2. Madhouse 3. Indians 4. I'm The Man 5. I Am The Law 6. Anti-Social 7. Who Cares Wins 8. In My World 9. Got The Time

• Blind Corner | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion) a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul's money Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...

• Thundercats - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Featuring new friends new foes and new battlefields Season 2 of this awesome animated favorite roars with more rousing adventures. As the season starts a recurring vision is tormenting leader Lion-O. The Thundercats realise that three more Thunderians must have survived the destruction of Thundera! A daring rescue mission pits the Thundercats against the villainous Mumm-Ra who has strengthened his forces of mutants and broadened the range of his dark territories. Can Lion-O save the new Thunderians?

• Krystian Zimerman-Chopin and Schubert | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Krystian Zimerman's icom-parable Chopin and Schubert filmed in 1987 by director Humphrey Burton. '' Fascinating visual confirmation of the purely acoustical impression of Zimerman's Chopin recordings.......In the Schubert, flawless pianism, satisfying conceptions, lucid and deft-plus superb piano sound quality'' (FonoForum).

• Rhonda Vincent And The Rage - Ragin' Live | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-13.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Recorded before a rapturous audience at The Sheldon Concert Hall in her native state of Missouri Ragin' Live captures Grammy nominated bluegrass sensation Rhonda Vincent and her band The Rage at their dynamic full-throttle best. The recipient of an unprecedented five consecutive Female Vocalist of the Year awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association Vincent makes music sparkling with hard-driving instrumental breaks soaring vocal harmonies and a heartfelt intensity

• Target For Today | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £7.34   |  Saving you £7.65 (51.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Produced by The First Motion Picture Unit, American Air Force, during World War Two. Target For Today is the Very best Filmed record of an American 8th Air Force raid on Nazi Germany. Made with unprecedented access at every level, this unique film follows a complete days raids from start to finish. On this particular day, the targets were Anklam, Marienberg, Danzig and Gdynia and the raids were carried out by over 400 B-17 Flying Fortress and Liberators in the Face of Ferocious fighter attacks. Target For Today reveals how the targets were chosen, and how intelligence and mission briefings were passed to the individual airfields. It then focuses on the experiences of the typical aircrews. Awoken at 3am, breakfast at 4, briefing at 5 and into the air at 7am for the start of the long and dangerous mission to the heart of Nazi occupied Europe... Combat cameramen flew with the bomber crews to film the deadly duels with Luftwaffe fighters, and capture the intensity and the horror of areal combat, with both fighters and bomber suffering heavy losses. They recorded the moment as bombs rained down over the targets, and the obvious relief of the crew returning safe once again for England and a detailed debriefing on the experiences... Special Features The 8th Air Force At War Filming The Memphis Belle Colour and Black and White home movies of the 8th Air Force B-24 Liberators filmed by Wade Lemmons, USAAF

• Higher Learning | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £14.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director John Singleton's Higher Learning follows three very different freshman students in their first term of university who find themselves having to reassess their lives and confront such thought-provoking issues as prejudice racism and sexism... Former high school track star Malik Williams finds that instead of cruising through his first year of an athletic scholarship he's actually going to have to run faster and harder in order to make the grade. Naive Kirstin Conne is ill prepared for a completely different aspect of college life - not only does she discover that male students don't always accept ""no"" for an answer but she also starts to reassess her own sexual leanings. Finally there's Remy the sad quiet kid from Idaho who nobody wants to befriend. Ultimately he turns to the only group that will have him - the trouble-making neo-Nazi skinheads. Among the characters that act as forces in the lives of these three students are Professor Phillips and long-term student Fudge who serve as positive role models as this provocative portrait of modern life builds to its searing and shocking climax.

• Diamond Dogs | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £4.75   |  Saving you £15.24 (320.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Action-superstar Dolph Lundgren propels this hard-hitting adventure as a guide hired to lead a band of treasure hunters to locate a priceless Buddhist artifact. Owing large sums of money to the Mongolian mob Xander Ronson (Lundgren) an ex-Special Forces officer agrees to lead an obsessed fortune hunter and his men on his dangerous quest for a legendary relic Tangka Tapestry. But great dangers await not only from a gang of ruthless Russian mercenaries bent on stealing the fabled treasure but also a deadly curse said to protect the incredibly valuable relic from tomb raiders in this pulse-pounding martial arts-powered action-thriller.

• Meet The Spartans | Blu Ray | (18/08/2008) from £10.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (136.70%)   |  RRP £25.99

  From the creators of "Scary Movie" and "Date Movie" comes this tongue-in-cheek parody of the sword-and-sandal epic, "300".

• Lonesome Jim | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £21.49   |  Saving you £-2.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Change Your Outlook. Change Your Life. Nearing the age of 30 with no real accomplishments to show for his years Jim (Casey Affleck) humbly returns to his small town and moves back in with his eccentric parents (Mary Kay Place and Seymour Cassell) and brother (Kevin Corrigan). As he tries to guide his family through the little dramas of everyday life Jim stumbles into a romance with a kind optimistic nurse (Liv Tyler). Directed by Steve Buscemi Lonesome Jim is a wise smart comedy about the courage it takes to accept the past and to embrace the future.

• Lockdown | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (32.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Avery had it all: his beautiful girlfriend Krista a young son and a full scholarship ahead of him. But in the blink of an eye it was all taken away. What started as a night out with his buddies ended with the shooting of a cop and Avery behind bars. He's innocent but that doesn't matter in a place that has its own set of rules. As Krista works to prove his innocence Avery struggles to survive the day-to-day hardships of prison life.

• Terry And June - Series 8 Volume 2 | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £6.94   |  Saving you £9.05 (130.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Terry Scott & June Whitfield were the perfect foils for one another happily married but far from dull.

• The Jam - Transglobal Unity Express | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-11.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  On the 21st of March 1982 a Sunday night at the Bingley Hall in Birmingham five cameramen wisely anchored their cameras to pillars to avoid the crush of 5000 fans and waited in mounting and nervous excitement to capture the power of The Jam. Tracklisting: 1. A Town Called Malice 2. Carnation 3. Precious 4. Ghosts 5. Move On Up 6. Private Hell 7. Pretty Green 8. Trans Global Express 9. The Gift

• Mozart Gala from Salzburg | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Critical acclaim for this high-point of Mozart Year 2006 - a microcosm of the Salzburg Festival's celebrations, with arias and orchestral works performed by some of the world's finest Mozart singers and the Vienna Philharmonic under Daniel Harding

• Dark Corners | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £8.34   |  Saving you £7.64 (142.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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.

• The Double-Headed Eagle | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The renowned German filmmaker Lutz Becker directed The Double Headed Eagle as a means of allowing Germans to understand and come to terms with the historical phenomenon that was Hitler. It is a dramatic documentary tracing the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party through the social chaos of the Weimar Republic. The programme shows how the Nazis provoked manipulated and exploited this chaos between 1918-1933. Their victims were the vast majority of the politically uncommitted democratic sections of society. The film highlights a disintegrating society and reveals parallels with contemporary social and political problems. By demonstrating these parallels Producer Puttnam's film makes Hitler's rise more understandable and in many ways more chilling.

• The Chair | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (137.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Danielle a beautiful psychology student is not only haunted by a troubled past but becomes possessed by the sinister soul of a killer. In the fight for her life Danielle must confront the evil lurking within her or die trying.

• The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This highly acclaimed drama based on the epic novel by Ernest J. Gaines eloquently covers the story of the Black Experience-from the Civil War to the civil rights movement-all told from the memories of a fictional 110 year-old slave played by Cicely Tyson. Ms.Tyson's tour-de-force performance her most memorable earned her an Emmy. All total this incredible made-for-TV film earned nine Emmys including one for director Korty and one for Tracy Keenan Wynn's intelligent script.