Television

• Shoah: The Four Sisters (Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray Edition | Blu Ray | (18/02/2019) from £30.76   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release SHOAH: THE FOUR SISTERS, a powerful and poignant 4-part documentary from Claude Lanzmann, as part of The Masters of Cinema Series in DVD & Blu-ray editions from 18 February 2019. Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton: Four Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and pitiless barbarism, and who, for that reason alone, but for many others also, deserve to be inscribed forever into the memory of humankind. What they have in common, beside the specific horrors to which each of them were subjected, is a searingly sharp, almost-physical intelligence, which rejects all pretence or faulty reasoning. In a word, idealism. Filmed by Claude Lanzmann during the preparation of what would become Shoah, each of these four extraordinary women deserved a film in their own right, to fully illustrate their exceptional fibre, and to reveal through their gripping accounts four little-known chapters of the extermination. THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH Ruth Elias was seventeen when the Nazis invaded her native city of Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia where her prosperous family had lived for generations. In April 1942, all were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Elias's parents and sister were deported to Auschwitz and soon murdered, but she was able to remain behind by marrying her boyfriend. By the winter of 1943 she became pregnant, a grave danger since pregnant women were targeted for deportation and Nazi regulations made it impossible to secure an abortion. She was sent to Auschwitz in the Fall of 1943. Interned in the infamous Czech Family Camp in Section B II B at Birkenau, she lived only a few hundred meters from a gas chamber and crematorium complex. When her pregnancy was finally recognized, she was placed under the care of the infamous Josef Mengele, who subjected her to a most cruel medical ordeal, forcing Elias to make the hardest possible decision a mother could face. THE MERRY FLEA On the very day Germany invaded Poland in September, 1939, all the men in Ada Lichtman's town of Wieliczka were rounded up by the SS, taken to a forest and shot. One of them was Lichtman's father, a cobbler. From then on, she was possessed by a single question: how will I be killed? Every day, the Germans selected more victims for execution; the survivors of these massacres, including Ada and her first husband, were driven from village to village to perform forced labour. Eventually those still alive were deported in cattle cars to the extermination camp at Sobibor where more than 250,000 Jews from across Europe would be gassed. Among only three women selected for work in the camp, Lichtman washed laundry and repaired dolls taken from Jewish children for export to Germany. The dolls forever evoked memories of this travesty. NOAH'S ARK Hanna Marton was the wife of a professor who worked with Rezsö (Rudolf) Kasztner, the head of Aid and Rescue Committee for Jewish refugees in Hungary. Once the Nazis occupied Hungary in the Spring of 1944 and began to deport thousands of Jews every day to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kasztner negotiated with Adolf Eichmann for the release of 1,684 Jews in exchange for $1,000 per person. After an odyssey by train through the collapsing Reich, most reached safety in Switzerland. Although Kasztner had saved the largest number of Jews during the Holocaust, his plan scandalized many, because Kasztner had selected many of his family and friends, including Hanna and her husband, as well as those he deemed essential for the future of Zionism, to board the rescue train. Nearly 450,000 Hungarian Jews subsequently died in the gas chambers of Birkenau while the Martons survived. Hanna Marton remained acutely aware that her survival was purchased at the expense of countless others who died. Offered an opportunity to escape, she had taken it, though her sense of guilt about having been among the privileged in Kastner's convoy is deeply felt during her relentlessly painful account. BAŁUTY Bałuty is the name of a slum district in the Polish city of Lodz that the Nazis designated in 1940 as the ghetto for the large Jewish population of the city. The Nazi-appointed president of the Jewish council of elders, Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, decided that part of the community would serve the Germans as a slave labour force. His strategy may have postponed the destruction of the ghetto, but nearly 45,000 Jews died of starvation and disease in Lodz. Paula Biren was just seventeen when she was forced to move with her family into the ghetto in 1940. Upon her graduation and in need of a job to avoid being deported, Biren accepted an administrative position with Rumkowski's Jewish women's police force. It was only after she realized her complicity in sending black marketeers to their deaths that she quit. Biren remained in the ghetto until August of 1944 when the Germans deported everyone, including Rumkowski, to camps. Her mother and sister were gassed upon arrival in Auschwitz, and her father died shortly Features: All four interviews presented across two discs Optional English subtitles PLUS: A booklet featuring new writing

• Pretenders | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £15.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the turbulent years of the later 17th century, this action-filled adventure series follows the fortunes of a brother and sister caught up in the dramatic events surrounding the Duke of Monmouth's doomed attempt to wrest the throne of England from his newly crowned uncle, King James II. Starring Frederick Jaeger, Pretenders comprises 13 episodes and is released here for the first time. June 1685: one of the most colourful power bids in English history begins, as a motley rebel army sets out to replace the Catholic, seemingly pro-French James with the Protestant Monmouth. Passions rage, and as the decisive battle of Sedgemoor draws closer, Elam and Perfect believed to be Monmouth's own son and daughter are assisted by a German mercenary, Joachim. Facing danger on every side, they must use all their ingenuity to evade capture by Royalist forces in the desperate hope that they will one day meet the father they have never known

• Orange is the New Black S5 | DVD | (11/06/2018) from £11.35   |  Saving you £7.63 (91.27%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The power dynamics at Litchfield shift dramatically as the inmates react to tragedy in the explosive fifth season of Orange Is the New Black. When the standoff at the prison turns into a full-blown riot, the inmates take advantage of the confusion by conducting séances, holding prisoner auctions, and preening for the morning news. But with relationships tested and friendships starting to fray, will life at Litchfield ever return to normal? Extras: Extra 1 - 72 Hours In 6 Months: Stories Of The Season Extra 2 Gag Reel Extra 3 Tattoo You Audio Commentary with Executive Producer/Co-writer Tara Herrmann and Co-Executive Producer/Director Mark A. Burley Extra 4 - Storm-y Weather - Audio Commentary with Executive Producer Tara Herrmann and Co-Executive Producer/Writer Lauren Morelli

• Last of the Summer Wine - Series 23 & 24 | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-5.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.54

  Last of the Summer Wine follows the adventures of a trio of pensioners, old men who have known each other all their lives who are reliving their boyhood, in and around their home town in West Yorkshire. The premise of the series has stayed pretty much the same from the start.

• Mum Series 3 | DVD | (24/06/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Our favourite characters return for a bold new adventure set over one single week in the latest season of this critically acclaimed comedy starring Academy Award® nominee Lesley Manville. Pauline's divorce money has come through and she's hired a country mansion for the week to celebrate Derek's birthday. So Cathy, Michael, Kelly, Jason, Pauline, Derek, Reg and Maureen up sticks and decamp to the English countryside. Each episode takes place on a different day of their trip, revealing all the clashes, awkwardness and comedy that results from the family being stuck together in the middle of nowhere. Is this the week for Cathy and Michael to finally get together or will the suspicions of Cathy's family halt their progress? Meanwhile, Derek has an important question on his mind, Reg soldiers on despite Maureen's deteriorating health, and Jason and Kelly try, really badly, to hide some life-changing news.

• Enter the Clones of Bruce | Blu Ray | (27/05/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Within hours of his 1974 funeral, Hong Kong movie studios began to produce hundreds of unauthorized biopics, spin-offs and rip-offs starring a competing roster of Bruce Lee lookalikes. Over the next decade, ˜Bruceploitation' would become a staple of global cinema. Director David Gregory whose award-winning documentaries include LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY'S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU and BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON now examines this fascinating phenomenon via interviews with Bruce Li, Bruce Le, Bruce Liang and Dragon Lee; martial arts legends like Angela Mao, David Chiang, Phillip Ko and Sammo Hung; and the producers, directors, distributors and experts along with copious clips from the films themselves that for the first time reveal the history, controversy and legacy behind one of the most bizarre genres in movie history.

• Steven Universe: Season One - DVD | DVD | (24/02/2020) from £5.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Believe in Steven! Steven Universe is a half-human, half-Gem hero who's learning to save the world with the magical powers that come from his belly-button. Steven may not be as powerful as his intergalactic warrior companions, the Crystal Gems. Or as smart. But that doesn't stop him from joining Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl in their magical adventures - where Steven always finds a surprising way to save the day. Contains all 52 episodes from Steven Universe Season 1.

• Life Season 1 | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £7.46 (42.56%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A quirky drama with moments of startling originality, Life: Season One concerns Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis of Band of Brothers), a cop who spent 12 years in federal prison for murders he did not commit. Exonerated by DNA evidence, Charlie receives a multimillion-dollar settlement for his troubles and returns to his old job, though now as a detective. Cleared of the crime, Charlie still faces skepticism from his law enforcement brethren and the impatience of a new partner, Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi), a former drug addict squeezed by her superior (Robin Weigert) to find reasons to boot Charlie from the force. None of this hostility, however, compares with the terrible time Charlie experienced behind bars, where a former cop is everyone's punching bag. Charlie's sanity, saved by studying Zen methods of non-attachment, remains with him after he is released into a digital world, Charlie has a lot of catching up to do, but it is his post-prison unorthodox manner and tendency to speak without thinking that prove jarring for colleagues and crime witnesses. Still, it is easy to root for the guy and appreciate (non-attachment aside) his fondness for the good life: a mansion, fast cars, beautiful women, and lots of fresh fruit. The pilot episode is a knockout, the kind of show featuring moments one has never seen before, such as a scene in which Charlie is forced to shoot a suspect and then talks him through an almost dream-like death. Subsequent episodes are a little uneven in quality, but the overall package is quite compelling, particularly as Charlie quietly solves the mystery of the murders for which he was blamed. Throughout, Charlie's religious transformation in prison collides with his darker impulses toward possible revenge, making Life a fascinating study in conflict. --Tom Keogh

• The Bletchley Circle | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In World War II they were code-breakers at Bletchley Park; brilliant, invaluable members of an elite team whose task was to crack German intelligence. Their success was their downfall. Seven years after helping to win the war they are housewives, mothers, girlfriends, shadows. Bound to the Official Secrets Act, their part in the Allied victory cannot be told; their finest abilities covered in dust sheets of security never to be seen again – unless... Susan has been reading newspapers, listening to the radio, following news of a serial killer targeting young women. She believes she can flesh out the pattern that will reveal his identity, but she can't do it alone. Calling on her companions from Bletchley, she persuades them to join her. But can yesterday's code breakers become today's detectives? All it will take is following the trail, breaking the code - and possibly risking their lives. Special Features: Behind the Scenes Cast Filmographies Picture Gallery Subtitles

• How I Met Your Mother - Season 3-4 | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This box set contains How I Met Your Mother season three and four and all special features.It's Season Three and the search for a soul mate has never been so wildly inappropriate!Thirty-year-old Ted is still looking for Miss Right, but his road to domestic bliss is improbably paved with punk rock girls, tattoos, adult video expos and an epic St. Patrick's Day bender. Meanwhile, as Marshall and Lily adjust to the quirks of married life, the outrageously incorrigible Barney commits a major violation of The Bro Code. Plus, Season Three features a host of hilarious guest stars, including Britney Spears, Sarah Chalke (TV's Scrubs), Enrique Iglesias, Mandy Moore and supermodel Heidi Klum.Season Four is loaded with irresistible laughter and filled with outrageous fun, there's just one word for the hit comedy How I Met Your Mother: Awesomeness! From dating dilemmas to career conundrums, the recently engaged Ted and his feisty friends find themselves at the crossroads of young adult life. While newlyweds Marshall and Lily contemplate parenthood, single gal Robin explores the advantages of having friends with benefits. Meanwhile, the irrepressible, opinionated Barney continues his hilariously dogged pursuit of the fairer sex. As for Ted, his Miss Right is out there, but amid bar brawls and blizzards, how will he ever find her?

• Shackleton - The Complete Series (1983) | DVD | (13/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by BAFTA-nominee Martyn Friend (New Tricks) and produced by BAFTA-nominee John Harris (The Singing Detective), the series also proved popular in the US, where it was nominated for a CableACE award in 1985 for Best Movie or Mini-series. Shackleton was shot on location in Greenland and features cinematography from BAFTA-winner David Whitson (The Voyage of Charles Darwin), who is no stranger to creating atmospheric journeys of historical figures. The chilling original music score was composed by Francis Shaw. Undeterred by the dangers faced by Roald Amundsen (first to reach the South Pole) and Robert Falcon Scott and his team (who perished on their treacherous journey), Shackleton, in 1914, chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. However, when disaster strikes and the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men must embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia with only the James Caird, a 20-foot lifeboat, to protect them against the furious Southern Ocean. Based on the true stories, recorded in Shackleton's own journals which he kept during his expeditions, this series does not shy away from the harsh realities the men faced in the Antarctic from dwindling supplies to emergency amputations and provides a gripping account of the dangers, frustrations and suffering the determined explorers endured. Unlike recent film and TV adaptations of the story, the BBC's 1983 drama delivers a widely acknowledged true account of the events as they unfolded. It opens with Shackleton planning the expedition and reveals the challenges he faced in finding sponsors. It presents the perilous journey on the James Caird and the South Georgia mountain crossing in keeping with journal records. And, unlike later versions, the BBC's Shackleton delves into his complex relationships with those around him as they all battle to succeed and survive. David Schofield stars as Ernest Shackleton in a remarkable early performance. He would later go on to star in the epic blockbusters: Gladiator, The Walking Dead and Pirates of the Caribbean. David Rodigan (A Woman called Moses) is outstanding as Shackleton's trusted deputy Frank Wild. This critically acclaimed, fact-based drama will definitely appeal to an audience interested in historical biopics and true-life adventures. Generally, fans of brilliantly cast and well-written drama with high production values will be thrilled to hear of Shackleton's long-awaited DVD release.

• Monty Python's Flying Circus - Complete - Limited Deluxe Edition Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (10/11/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Years in the making, Network is proud to present the entire original television series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, fully rejuvenated for the first time. Sketches, some edited for timing, taste and copyright reasons, have been carefully restored to their intended length and the majority of Terry Gilliam's animations have been newly scanned in High Definition and restored to a specification way beyond their original format. Hitherto unseen outtakes, film inserts and studio recordings have been retrieved, adding yet another dimension to this exclusive release. This is the ultimate television restoration and a must for every generation of Python fan. Features: 7 discs featuring all 45 episodes presented series-by-series, for the first time totally uncut and beautifully restored from original film and videotape elements. Limited exploding box Norwegian Blu-ray edition Each of the four series comes individually packaged with a book by Andrew Pixley (four books in total) detailing an exhaustive episode-by-episode production history. Previously unseen outtakes Extended scenes and sketches Restored-to-full-length sketches including Ursula Hitler, Cartoon Religions, A Book At Bedtime and more. Rare promo films And more to be announced THE RESTORATION

• Frasier - Series 8 | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £19.89   |  Saving you £15.10 (75.92%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer is Frasier - the hilarious psychiatrist first seen on TV's Cheers and subsequently the star of this smash-hit comedy series. In Season 8 wedding bells chime a sour note when Daphne (Jane Leeves) flees her marriage ceremony to run off with Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and the two lovebirds - as well as a hapless Frasier - ultimately find themselves embroiled in a lawsuit as a result of the marital mayhem! Frasier also seeks the wisdom and advice of an old college professor whom Frasier drafts as his ""professional mentor."" And new-puppy training quickly goes to the dogs when Roz (Peri Gilpin) brings home a new Dalmatian and Martin (John Mahoney) takes command as the puppy's official trainer. It's 22 cupfuls of Seattle's funniest most flavorful blend - Frasier: The Complete Eighth Season!

• Terry Pratchett's Truckers The Complete Series | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Terry Pratchett's Truckers is released on DVD in its original broadcast format. It was previously available only on VHS as a cut down feature length episode. Broadcast on ITV from 10 January 1992 through to 3rd April 1992 this much loved stop animation TV series is from the revered production house Cosgrove Hall the makers of Dangermouse. Contains all 13 episodes. The first book by Terry Pratchett to be adapted for either the small or big screen Truckers brings to life the story of the Nomes. 15 000 years ago the Nomes crashed to Earth in a scout ship from the starship Swan. Generations of them have come and gone with the passing years and the changing countryside. Suddenly faced with extinction the ten surviving Nomes guided by their reluctant leader Masklin must face many exciting adventures during their search for a new home and hiding place in the big bad world of the humans.

• 1990 - Series 2 | DVD | (01/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Simply Media are delighted to announce the first DVD release of the critically acclaimed dystopian drama 1990: Series 2 on 1st May 2017, after the successful release of series 1 by Simply Media to the delight of fans earlier this year, with series 1 referred to as a TV landmark by Junsui Films Limited, a minor miracle it has been finally released by We Are Cult, and a well-crafted British character drama by Archive TV Musings. Originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1978, this will be the very first time the second series of this cult sensation will be available on any home video format. It brings the chilling tale of one man's fight against a corrupt and overbearing system to a satisfying conclusion. The series creator, Wilfred Greatorex (Secret Army / 'Allo 'Allo), is described by the Guardian as one of the most prolific and assured television script-writers and editors from the 1960s into the 1980s . 1990 tells a chilling tale of a bleak and nightmarish future Britain where individual rights have been replaced by rights only for the common good. Government bureaucracy is out of control. The lives of ordinary citizens are in the hands of the Home Office's corrupt and overbearing Public Control Department (PCD), which has its watchful eye on everyone in order to monitor and expose all possible and imaginary threats to the country. Greatorex himself described his creation as Nineteen Eighty-Four plus six because of the parallel themes with Orwell's prophetic novel. The PCD uses sophisticated surveillance systems in order to expose anyone threatening the status quo. Special State-sanctioned brainwashing units, cunningly disguised as caring rest-homes, are ruthlessly used to suppress independent thought and cure dissidents. A strict rationing of food, alcohol and travel is imposed, and ID cards are required in order to work, which can be withdrawn by the state at anytime. Free speech is forbidden, censorship is rife, and with no rule of law to protect the vulnerable, all citizens are left at the mercy of the state's tyrannical control. Or so it seems.... 1990 stars Golden Globe winner Edward Woodward (The Wicker Man) in the lead role as the calm, witty and charming rebel Jim Kyle. He's a journalist working for one of the last remaining independent newspapers, and a secret dissident who is fighting the corrupt establishment by covertly helping others escape. He risks prison or even death if identified. Unrest is growing in series 2, as a 'pentagon', one of a growing number of dissident groups, prepares to take on the PCD, and Kyle continues his renegade activities against the Establishment. But Kyle's actions are not going unnoticed... Woodward leads a strong supporting cast including Robert Lang (Othello (1965)), who gives an unforgettable performance as the PCD's ruthless controller Herbert Skardon; and series 2 introduces Lisa Harrow as Lynn Blake, Kyle's ex-lover, as the new Deputy Controller of the PCD. 1990 also takes a rare and fascinating original spin on the dystopian fiction genre, unusually depicting a totalitarian regime where the government follows a socialist agenda, instead of the more usual fascist regime. In a society today where the proposed Snoopers Charter has been passed by the British Government, justified as a means of combating terrorism, Greatorex's fictional vision of the future may not be so different from our real present.

• Modern Family Seasons 1-11 Complete Box set (Amazon Exclusive) | DVD | (17/02/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Private Practice - Season 6 | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Prepare yourself for the stunning no holds barred final season of television's most seductive medical drama from Shonda Rhimes the creator of Grey's Anatomy. Feel the passion and relive the heartbreaking moments from every episode of ABC's Private Practice: The Complete Sixth Season. The tight knit family at Seaside Health and Wellness is in for a huge shakeup as a new doctor arrives in the wake of a devastating loss; meanwhile Addison makes a heart-wrenching choice between Jake and Sam; and more changes are in store for Cooper and Charlotte who discover that life's biggest events come in threes. Lastly Sheldon finds true happiness in the midst of a traumatic personal challenge. Experience all 13 episodes complete with never-before-seen bonus features on ABC's Private Practice: The Complete Sixth Season! Special Features: Deleted Scenes Gag Reel

• The Paul Temple Black and White Collection | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stylish, cool, incisive - protective of his loving wife “Steve” - Paul Temple was an exemplary crime writer turned crime solver who operated like a cross-between Miss Marple and Poirot with the slick cutting-edge style of The Saint.This collection captures the final five episodes of the classic TV series: The Guilty Must Die Game, Set and Match Long Ride to Red Gap Winner Take All Critics, Yes! But This is Ridiculous!

• One Piece: Collection 7 | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £20.29   |  Saving you £14.70 (72.45%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Nami, Zoro, Chopper, and Robin are trapped aboard the Going Merry when it's commandeered by a monstrous lobster! To rescue his crew, Luffy must venture onto the sacred grounds of Upper Yard! Contains episodes 157-182. Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.

• Joseph Campbell | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  These stimulating conversations between inspirational scholar Joseph Campbell and veteran journalist Bill Moyers created a national sensation when they first aired on public television. In lively, expansive dialogues, the two men discuss how myths hold the key to understanding human experience. They may vary superficially from culture to culture, but at their deepest level they all reveal the path to self-fulfilment, social integration and ultimately, transcendence. Join Campbell and Moyers as they touch on topics as diverse as world religions, marriage, the virgin birth and pop culture. Filmed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and New York’s American Museum of Natural History, this series fires the imagination and the intellect. Special Features: Never-before-released conversation with Campbell from Bill Moyers’ Journal Selections from Moyers’ interview with Star Wars creator George Lucas 12-page viewer’s guide with profiles of artists influenced by Campbell, an essay on mythology in everyday life, Campbell biography and animal symbolism in myths. Available at www.acornmediauk.com Profiles of Campbell’s influences, episode photo galleries, Bill Moyers biography and excerpts from the film Sukhavati