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• Berlin Airlift, Operation Vittles | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This unique documentary packed full of historical archive footage and expert analysis documents one of the first major international crises of the cold war - The Berlin Airlift - that began on June 26 1948 when the Soviets sealed off the western portion of Berlin controlled by American British and French forces. In response the western allies took to the skies and began flying in provisions for West Berlin's 2.2 million residents. In one of the greatest humanitarian actions of all time American and British aircraft supplied the inhabitants of Berlin with food fuel and other supplies during the unprecedented Berlin Airlift which came to be known as 'Operation Vittles'. At midnight on May 12 1949 the Soviets who had repeatedly claimed the airlift could never possibly work had to admit to a humiliating defeat and reopened land and water routes into Berlin ending the 322-day blockade of the city. Seventeen American and eight British aircraft crashed during the operation. A total of 70 British and American personnel lost their lives during the airlift and related operations however the airlift demonstrated to the Germans that the Western democracies would defend their freedoms. In turn the soldiers of Great Britain and the United States began to see Germans as allies in the struggle against the Soviet Union in the Cold War. The genesis of the Western Alliance can be dated to the Berlin airlift. One lasting legacy of the Airlift are the three airports in the former western zones of the city which served as the primary gateways to Berlin for another sixty years.

• Zombie Women Of Satan | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It Really Was the Wrong Time of the Month!

• Two Thirteen | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £12.80   |  Saving you £-2.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Killers Are Not Born ... They Are Made A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage...

• Nobel Son | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Living in the shadow of his curmudgeonly Nobel-prize winning father and struggling to finish his Phd are trouble enough for Barkley Michaelson. However things are about to get worse for him when he's kidnapped on the eve of his father's prize-giving and the requested ransom is the 000 000 that the Nobel foundation dole out to winners. His father in keeping with his selfish cavalier ways refuses to pay the fee and in doing so opens up a plethora of family divides and dysfunctions.

• Exhibit A | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Winner of the prestigious Best UK Feature award at the Raindance Film Festival and nominated for three British Independent Film Awards. Exhibit A tells the timely story of a normal family disintegrating under financial pressure, eventually driven to the unimaginable. All is not as it seems as the King family go about their day-to-day lives oblivious of the horror to come. Dad Andy (Bradley Cole) is nursing a secret that ultimately leads to terrifying consequences for them all. We witness these chilling events unfold through daughter Judith's (Brittany Ashworth) video camera, which subsequently becomes Exhibit A. The film is inspired by the many men in real life who are known to their neighbours as devoted husbands and fathers, but for unknowable reasons suddenly decide to take drastic action to protect their loved ones. Exhibit A has left a trail of stunned audiences at festivals all over the world and won't leave you the same person. The Collector's Edition includes an exclusive making of featurette, rehearsal footage and bonus teaser trailers.

• Planet Carnivore - Great White Sharks | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £14.82   |  Saving you £-6.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  National Geographic: Planet Carnivore Box Set: Great White Sharks

• The Alain Resnais Collection (4 disc box set) | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Films Comprise: I Want to Go Home Life Is a Bed of Roses Love unto Death Melo

• Wild Thing... I Love You With Bill Bailey | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Each week Bill Bailey leads his team of experts on a mission to save some of the UK's most vulnerable wildlife from human encroachment. From critter-crossings to translocation - Bill and his team will stop at nothing to our help our Britain's wildlife in Wild Thing - I Love You. Called in to investigate the threat the team will only have a short time in which to solve the crisis. The series offers a fun and unique insight into the lives of the animals in the spotlight as Bill takes a look at their habitats lifecycle feeding and mating habits - as well as delving into the local community and area. Bill's team of experts comprise of Dusty Gedge ecologist and team leader; Dr. Sasha Norris zoologist; and Jem Stansfield the team's engineer.

• Africa's Lost Eden - Gorongosa | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £12.94   |  Saving you £-4.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  National Geographic: Africa's Lost Eden (aka Gorongosa)

• The Princess and the Frog Superset (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (21/06/2010) from £19.60   |  Saving you £6.39 (32.60%)   |  RRP £25.99

  After the visual bombast of many contemporary CGI and motion-capture features, the drawn characters in The Princess and the Frog, Walt Disney Studio's eagerly awaited return to traditional animation, feel doubly welcome. Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin), The Princess and the Frog moves the classic fairy tale to a snazzy version of 1920s New Orleans. Tiana (voice by Anika Noni Rose), the first African-American Disney heroine, is not a princess, but a young woman who hopes to fulfill her father's dream of opening a restaurant to serve food that will bring together people from all walks of life. Tiana may wish upon a star, but she believes that hard work is the way to fulfill your aspirations. Her dedication clashes with the cheerful idleness of the visiting prince Naveen (Bruno Campos). A voodoo spell cast by Dr. Facilier (Keith David) in a showstopping number by composer Randy Newman initiates the events that will bring the mismatched hero and heroine together. However, the animation of three supporting characters--Louis (Michael-Leon Wooley), a jazz-playing alligator; Ray (Jim Cummings), a Cajun firefly; and 197-year-old voodoo priestess Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis)--is so outstanding, it nearly steals the film. Alternately funny, touching, and dramatic, The Princess and the Frog is an all-too-rare example of a movie a family can enjoy together, with the most and least sophisticated members appreciating different elements. The film is also a welcome sign that the beleaguered Disney Feature Animation Studio has turned away from such disasters as Home on the Range, Chicken Little, and Meet the Robinsons and is once again moving in the right direction. --Charles Solomon Stills from Princess and the Frog (Click for larger image)

• River Cottage - Edible Seashore | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  There is something especially pleasurable about the mix of whiling away a sunny day by the sea and filling up a bucket with nature's finest free edible bounty. So if the idea of digging around in rock pools for your dinner excites the hunter gather in you as much as it tickles your taste buds then this DVD is for you. Follow in the footsteps of one of the countries favourite foraging experts John Wright as he winkles out winkles gets up beat about sea beet and warms the cockles of your heart with cockle collecting! And join Hugh too as he gets involved in some of John's wild seaside adventures! In this thorough guide to the edible seashore John shows you how to identify and unearth the tastiest edible plants from flavour packed wild versions of such supermarket staples as garlic fennel mustard and rocket to exotic Alexanders and rock samphire. There's also a step-by-step advice on how to harness the amazing harvest that's seaweed and everything you need to know about how to catch and cook the finest molluscs and crustacean from oysters to lobsters. With over ten recipes from both Hugh and John Wright you won't be short of wonderful ways to put your free foraged harvest to it's tastiest uses. Edible Seashore features more than an hour and a half of informative fun including bonus features.

• Kinks. The -The Kinks Story (2xdvd) | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-5.94 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This is the story of one of the most influential groups ever to come out of Britain. This stunning double DVD set provides a fascinating insight into what it was like to make music with a genius. The programme turns to original drummer and longstanding band members Mick Avory keyboardist John Gosling and bassist John Dalton to hear their thoughts recollections and memories of time spent playing with the band. These all new unique interviews are interwoven with terrific archive footage both in the television studio and in the live environment from all eras of the Kinks glorious history. In addition a team of leading rock journalists and music critics re-assess some of the best-loved and most influential songs in pop history making this a standout package essential not only for Kinks fans but all lovers of great music.

• Vampires Forensics / Is It Real - Vampires | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (-3.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  National Geographic: Vampire Forensics / Is it Real: Vampires (2 Discs)

• The Moody Blues: Threshold Of A Dream Live At The IOW Festival 1970 | Blu Ray | (21/06/2010) from £19.05   |  Saving you £-2.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In 1970 The Moody Blues were at their creative and commercial peak. After reinventing themselves from their R&B roots to a much more sophisticated sound between 1967 and 1970 they released five albums four of which hit the Top 5 in the UK with two of them going to No.1. They enjoyed similar success in the USA where four of the albums hit the Top 20 and the other was just outside. At the end of August 1970 shortly after the release of their album A Question Of Balance The Moody Blues took to the stage of the Isle Of Wight Festival in front of an audience estimated at over half a million. This Blu-ray makes that performance available to be seen in high definition for the first time. Tracklist 1. Documentary The Concert: 2. Gypsy 3. Tuesday Afternoon 4. Never Comes The Day 5. Tortoise And The Hare 6. Questions 7. Sunset 8. Melancholy Man 9. Nights In White Satin 10. Legend Of A Mind 11. Ride My See Saw 12. Conclusion

• A Poet's Guide To Britain | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Acclaimed poet and author Owen Sheers presents this enlightening series in which he looks at six great works of poetry about the British landscape. The poems by William Wordsworth Matthew Arnold Lynette Roberts Sylvia Plath Louis MacNeice and George Mackay Brown explore a sense of place and identity across Britain and open the doors to captivating stories about the lives of the poets themselves.

• Profound Desires of the Gods | Blu Ray | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The culmination of Shohei Imamura's extraordinary examinations of the fringes of Japanese society throughout the 1960s Profound Desires of the Gods was an 18-month super-production which failed to make an impression at the time of its release but has since risen in stature to become one of the most legendary - albeit least seen - Japanese films of recent decades. Presenting a vast chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island the film centres on the disgraced superstitious interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer sent to supervise the creation of a new well - an encounter which leads to both conflict and complicity in strange and powerful ways. A tragic view of a passing epoch that teeters on the edge of grotesque farce Imamura's merciless gaze combines with spectacular colour 'Scope photography to create a mythic saga convulsing with earthly impulses.

• Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Live At Montreux 1997 | Blu Ray | (21/06/2010) from £19.05   |  Saving you £-2.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Emerson Lake and Palmer known to all as ELP were progressive rock's first supergroup. Keith Emerson (keyboards) came from The Nice Greg Lake (guitar bass & vocals) from King Crimson and Carl Palmer (drums) from Atomic Rooster. Formed in 1970 they were an instant success and went on to have a series of huge selling albums throughout the seventies before splitting up in the early eighties. Reunited in the early nineties they produced a new album Black Moon and began to tour again. In 1997 they embarked on a world tour which included this superb performance at Montreux on July 7. Tracklist 1. Karn Evil 9 - 1st Impression Part 2 2. Tiger In The Spotlight 3. Hoedown 4. Touch And Go 5. From The Beginning 6. Knife Edge 7. Bitches Crystal 8. Creole Dance 9. Honky Tonk Train Blues 10. Take A Pebble 11. Lucky Man 12. Medley: Tarkus / Pictures At An Exhibition 13. Medley: Fanfare For The Common Man / Rondo / Carmina Burana / Carl Palmer's Drum Solo / Toccata In D Minor

• Bitter Sweet | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £6.45   |  Saving you £-0.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.

• Pearl Jam -Under Review | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £7.65   |  Saving you £-1.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Documentario in cui viene ripercorsa tutta la formidabile carriera dei Pearl Jam attraverso interviste d'archivio con la band, contributi di musicisti ed amici e rari filmati dal vivo.

• River Cottage - Mushroom Magic | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-42.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Our Mushroom Magic DVD is now available. Hugh says Nothing gets us more excited at River Cottage HQ than wild mushrooms. But these glorious fruits of the field and wood are available to everyone so why not get out there and bag some for yourself? This DVD put together by River Cottage mushroom guru John Wright and myself is a fantastic introduction to the delights of mushroom foraging. In John's safe hands we take a tour through the tastiest wild mushrooms our countryside has to offer from the humble Common Puffball to the majestic Cep. John gives us his top tips on where and when to go what to pick and what to avoid. Then it's back to the kitchen where Gill and I get to work turning our haul into a whole array of fantastic dishes. Whether you're a seasoned mycophile or total novice this DVD will open your eyes to the wealth of mushrooms just waiting to be picked. It will whet your appetite for the vast array of fungal flavours out there and inspire you to add a truly wild edge to your cooking! Head off on a mushroom journey with Hugh John and Gill. Feast on 50 minutes of brand new River Cottage material packed with information on how to make the most out of your mushrooming in the wilds and in the kitchen.