New Releases

• Breastford Wives | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-7.49 (-125.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Greatest Racing cars of all Time Volume 1 | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (25.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A History Of Motor Racing brings you the story of the names that were to change the direction of the Grand Prix and Sports Car racing history - the cars the drivers the characters the big race glory and the tragedy. Jaguar D Type In its six year racing career the Jaguar D type won the Le Mans 24 hour race an incredible three times catapulting Jaguar into the spot light and gaining it an international racing reputation. BMW The remarkable story of the rise of BMW into a motor sports powerhouse. The origins of the company stretch back to a 1913 aeroplane engine factory and through planes motorcycles and cars discover how this company from humble beginnings came to the forefront of the industry resisting any mergers or takeovers. In 1982 BMW entered its turbo charged engines into the world of Formula 1 racing and a year later it had won the Championship with Nelson Piquet at the wheel. English Racing Automobiles No history of Motor racing would be complete without an in depth look at the formative years of this motor racing powerhouse. The ERA or English Racing Automobiles first appeared in 1934 and still have a major influence on motor racing today.

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

  Were The Who the godfathers of Punk? They are certainly one of the most influential rock bands of all time and they continue to impress audiences and gain new fans to this day. With the help of a leading team of critics we follow the band from their beginnings as The High Numbers during the Mod era to Tommy and superstardom. The DVDs draw on archive performance footage from early television performances to the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1970 and beyond. We look behind the success story and discuss the personal tensions between the band members the destruction and mayhem caused by the band on and off the stage the tragic death of Keith Moon and what effect this had on the music. The Who Videobiography is a comprehensive review of one of the best live bands of all time.

• Hungarian Masters Box Set (3 Films) | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-7.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Films include: Love (aka Szerelem) (1971): This tender black-and-white Hungarian drama takes place in the '50s. A woman's (Mari Torcsik) husband has been arrested by the Hungarian secret police and imprisoned as a dissident. The young wife lives with her mother-in-law (Lili Darvas) a sweet and magnetic woman appears to believe that her son has emigrated to America. Unable to do anything about her husband's imprisonment the daughter-in-law keeps the old woman's good cheer alive by concocting a series of letters from her husband wherein he does incredible and wonderful things...The role of the mother-in-law was played at the request of the director by octogenarian Lili Darvas the wife of the famous Hungarian playwright and novelist Ferenc Molnar. My Way Home (aka Igy Jottem) (1965): In the final days of WWII a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops then released then captured once more and imprisoned at a remote barracks where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. Diary For My Children (aka Naplo Gyermekeimnek) (1982): From one of the world's most accomplished women directors Meszaros' film connects the personal with the political by portraying the impact of individuals upon history and of historical forces upon individual lives. Poignant and autobiographical this is the first in her renowned 'Diary' trilogy.

• Paatshaala | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (-1.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Paatshaala

• Learn to play Poker | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £8.22   |  Saving you £-0.23 (-2.90%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Poker has many variations all following a similar pattern of play and generally using the same hand ranking hierarchy. The two most popular are Seven-card stud and Texas hold 'em. Seven-card stud is a variant of 5 card stud poker as sevencard stud deals two extra cards to each player (three face-down four face-up) from which they must make the best possible 5-card hand. Betting is clockwise the player with the highest poker hand showing starts each round. Texas Hold'em is one of the most dramatic and popular varieties of poker in the world. It is an easy game to learn just difficult to master. Hold 'em is a community card game where each player may use any combination of the five community cards and the player's own two hole cards to make a poker hand in contrast to poker variants like stud or draw where each player holds a separate individual hand. Your step by step tutorial at the Poker table includes: Introduction Poker Etiquette Seven Card Stud Seven Card Stud Strategy Texas Hold 'Em Texas Hold 'Em Strategy

• Volcanoes: Fire in the Sky | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £29.14   |  Saving you £-11.15 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The encyclopedia defines a volcano as an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface. The word volcano is derived from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. This description belies the fact that a volcanic eruption can be at once the single most terrifying, and yet extraordinarily beautiful, natural occurrences one can ever experience. Over fifteen hundred volcanoes have erupted in the last 10 millennia and all are sti...

• This is Guadalcanal | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This Is Guadalcanal describes one of the most famous of all battles in the Pacific when on August 7 1942 the US Navy and US Marines invade and eventually conquer the stubbornly held Japanese Island of Guadalcanal during intense jungle fighting to capture it's highly important airstrip! The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was supposed to prevent the ability of the Allied Forces to maintain the grinding attritional battle that was the hallmark for the bloody fighting of Guadalcanal. The capture of this strategically crucial island in the Solomans during which more than 25 000 Japanese lost their lives was the key to the US victory in the Philippines which paved the way for the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the defeat of the Japanese Empire. This is Guadalcanal is a concise history of the battles incorporating dramatic film footage and rare photographs.

• Giants Among Us: Lifetimes of Invention | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Throughout history come singular individuals that seize the moment and make their dreams a reality, reshaping the world. This dramatic compilation chronicles the lives of, and events surrounding, the explorers, inventors, adventurers and dreamers who became giants of their time and forever left a legacy that affected generations to come. One can only wonder at what extraordinary explorations and fantastic innovations lay ahead and who the next generation's giants will be?? From Alexander the...

• Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Jazz Sessions | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £13.45   |  Saving you £2.54 (18.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions is a 39 part television music profile/performance series. Each episode features complete musical pieces interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with some of today's most notable jazz artists. Shot in HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting designs SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles - from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and beyond. In this unique program Gonzalo Rubalcaba displays his remarkable sensitivity toward the musical traditions from which he emerged and later embraced. As one of the most important figures to emerge from Afro-Cuban jazz in the '90s Rubalcaba is an extraordinarily versatile pianist able to blend disparate strands of Cuban and American jazz traditions into a fresh modern whole. By the time he arrived on the international jazz stage in the late '80s he had already established a name for himself and is now was widely considered one of the great virtuosos of the music.

• Pillars of Freedom: Three Branches of the Us | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £9.97   |  Saving you £10.02 (50.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When the United States Constitution was written over 200 years ago, it created a system of government that is unrivaled in the world today. That institution, 'of the people, by the people, for the people' is defined by the three branches of government, all centrally aligned in a system of checks and balances, where no one branch can usurp power over the other. Laws are created in the legislative branch, or Congress, made up of the Senate (upper house) and the House of Representatives (lower ...

• Predators of the Sea | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bordered by three oceans (the Arctic, the Pacific and the Atlantic) and sharing the largest fresh water lakes in the world, Canada is indeed, a land of the sea. Renowned oceanographer, naturalist and one of the world's leading underwater film makers, John Stoneman, looks at the unique relationship Canada has with the sea and the wonders found hidden beneath its surface. As the largest member of the dolphin family, the Orca, or killer whale, is often feared by seafarers. This large, highly in...