In August 1944 Field Marshal Montgomery launched an audacious campaign to trap the German 5th and 7th Panzer Armies in Lower Normandy forming a ring of steel around them with American British Canadian and Polish armour. Presented by military historian Jack Livesey. This DVD features edited sequences and original newsreel reports! Chapters: Allies Apply the Squeeze Falaise and The Surrounding Areas The Third Army Drive Along the Loire The Encirclement of german Seventh Army Allied Action in Normandy 1944
Omid Djalili returns for a second series of stand-up sketches and skits.
Episodes Comprise: Magnolia Blossom: Theodora Darrell is running away with her lover - and business associate of her husband - Vincent Easton when she learns her husband Richard is facing financial ruin. Old loyalties resurface and she returns home to see if she can fix the situation. The Case of the Discontented Soldier: The recently retired Major Wilbraham is bored and unhappy so he answers Parker Pyne's newspaper ad. Before long the Major finds himself rescuing Freda Clegg from two burly attackers; with Freda in tow he embarks on a daring adventure to find treasure in the wilds of Africa! Another charming love story of an autumn romance.
Making his only major film appearance legendary soul singer musician and composer Ray Charles helps transform the lives of a blind boy and his widowed mother in this poignant uplifting film drama set in mid-1960s London. Presented in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio Ballad in Blue sees Charles - who had lost his sight completely by the age of eight - performing some of his best-loved songs including I Got a Woman Hit the Road Jack and Busted. During a performance for blind children global star Ray Charles befriends David a young boy who has recently lost his sight and tries to help him come to terms with his condition. Then during a world tour Charles finds himself in Paris where a surgeon is pioneering a radical procedure that could restore David's sight; he sets out not only to convince David's over-protective mother to allow her son to undergo the surgery but also to reconcile her with her boyfriend a struggling composer who seeks solace in alcohol. Special Features: Image gallery
Anne's beloved world of Green Gables becomes a much bigger place, with new faces and heartfelt lessons about love, loss and growing up.
When the philandering Eliott dies penniless there is no inheritance for his daughters Beatrice and Evangeline to survive on. Forced to go into business their London dressmaking enterprise grows into an industrial force to be reckoned with... This special gift set contains every episode from all three series of this wonderful BBC drama.
The complete tenth series of ITV's London's Burning which followed the lives and tribulations of Blackwall Fire Station's Blue Watch.
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman heads the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS), cracking previously unsolved crimes from the past. Her team is made up of ex-policemen who have opted for early retirement. This two disc set contains the best five episodes as voted for by the fans. Episode Comprise: God's Waiting Room: When Strickland refuses permission to investigate a suspicious death at a high end care home the team go undercover. Death of a Timeshare Salesman: When former escort girl finds God and confesses her sins the team fi nd themselves reinvestigating the death of a well-known timeshare magnate. Dead Man Talking: UCOS reinvestigate the death of a wealthy financier when a psychic tells the dead man's daughter that she needs to resolve some unfinished business on her father's behalf. Old Fossils: The team identify plenty of suspects when they reopen the case into the murder of a respected but outspoken palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum. The Girl Who Lived: When the DNA of a missing girl is found at the scene of a robbery a retired detective from Glasgow joins the UCOS team and things will never be the same again.
From her carefree childhood days in the Spencer home at Althorp to her tragic return the people's love for this quite remarkable and unique woman is unparalleled. Ever since her fairy tale marraige in 1981 Diana captivated the world with her beauty and her openness. Her common touch endeared her to everyone she met from world statesmen to the seriously ill from sufferers of AIDS to the homeless and lonely. She used her own experiences of bulimia and the painful breakdown of her
The Real Story Behind American Gangster This is the true-life story of a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord. Mr Untouchable takes you deep inside the heroin game. With the first hand testimony of the black Godfather himself Nicky Barnes. This is an epic story of business excess greed and revenge. Nicky Barnes was the most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history. From humble beginnings he came to dominate the heroin distribution business and make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams. Trusted and trained by the Italians he set up his own black crime family 'The Council' a formidable drug collective. The film has secured the testimony of Nicky Barnes himself. Barnes has broken the street code and his 23-year silence to tell all in this epic American dream story. We have also interviewed former members of The Council and others in the Barnes drug Collective. This is an inside look at the heroin business from the Kingpin at the top to the dealer and user on the street.
Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves and Betty White are still Hot in Cleveland. It's the complete second season, featuring 22 episodes, of the hit sitcom about three LA women and one feisty Midwesterner living it up in Cleveland! Watch as they settle into their new lives, full of new men and new drama. From dating disasters to fake engagements and a battle with Susan Lucci to a stint in prison, this season proves that true friendship and lots of laughter can get them through it all! Episode Comprise: Disc One: Free Elka Bad Bromance Hot For Lawyer Sisterhood Of The Travelling Spanx I Love Lucci Part 1 Disc Two: I Love Lucci Part 2 Dog Tricks, Sex Flicks and Joy's Fix Lebron Is Le Gone Elka's Snowbird Law and Elka Disc Three: Where's Elka? How I Met My Mother Unseperated At Birthdates Battle Of The Bands Love Thy Neighbour Disc Four: Dancing Queens The Emmy Show Arch Enemies Too Hot For TV Indecent Proposals Bridezelka Elka's Wedding
More than 50 modern comedy legends candidly explore their motivations and inspirations in this hilariously unique examination of the age old question: do you really have to be miserable to be funny? A star-studded cast including Tom Hanks, Matthew Perry, Jon Favreau, Whoopi Goldberg, Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Jimmy Fallon and many more, dig into their earliest comic experiences, most epic fails and tell unforgettable anecdotes to reveal a performer's deep, and perhaps paradoxical, desire to connect with audiences. This master class in comedy offers a rare opportunity to hear comedy icons dissect the art of stand-up and explore how a joke can operate as a blunt tool, a social weapon, or even as a personal elixir. It reminds us that the best humour may be derived from misery, but that it's the comedian's particular brand of truth that helps us all understand a little better what it means to be human.
A haunting mix of documentary and animation. Follow British filmmaker Iain Cunningham turn detective to piece together the fading life story of his mother, who died before he could form any lasting memories of her, using only myths and tales told by friends and family. As you follow Iain's journey, it becomes clear the power of memory and how what we remember doesn't only shape the past, but how we see ourselves in the present.
Bill Viola has been exploring video art since its beginnings in the 1970's and is increasingly recognized as one of the most important visual artists working today. His work includes single-channel pieces as well as large scale sound and image installations. Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart is the first portrait to have been made of this crucial artist. The film features Viola at work extracts from some of his major works and in-depth interviews with Viola himself. Producer and Director Mark Kidel one of the world's leading makers of arts documentaries was granted unprecedented access to Bill Viola and his personal archives. In the film Viola talks passionately about his life and the events and artistic influences that have driven his work: from his childhood memory of near-drowning to the artistic exploration and political activism of his youth and on to the death of his mother. The film also explores the connection between Viola's work and the mystical traditions of East and West.
At last Fivers Police Interceptors series from Raw Cut TV comes to you on DVD. Police Interceptors follows a hand-picked team of officers using the most powerful rally cars in the world to deny criminals the use of the roads. In their Evo VIIIs and Subaru Imprezas they are a force to be reckoned with as they clamp down on all types of crime in Essex. The deployment of the Eurocopter EC 135 with its powerful all seeing camera provides a much needed 'eye in the sky' for the aerial reconnaissance of vehicle pursuits speeding incidents and drugs busting. It speeds along at 162 mph. Filmed over six months and based in Essex arguably Britains brashest county with a postive rogue's gallery of characters to match the series will have petrolheads the length and breadth of the country drooling over their remote controls. The pace never falters and the action never slackens with the Essex Police ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) Intercept Team cracking down on road crimes as varied as driving whilst under the influence driving whilst disqualified dangerous driving driving whilst using a mobile phone failing to stop after an incident and driving without insurance blonde Essex girl driving with number plate M TOO SXY amongst many many more. Natalie Pinkham hosts the Police Interceptors Special Editions which go backstage with the crews and look again at some of the more exciting aspects of policing in Essex. Police Interceptors is fun dramatic hair raising and impossible to miss.
Featuring: Stephen Hawking Samuel L. Jackson Morgan Freeman Courtney Cox Donald Trump Martin Sheen Maggie Gyllenhaal and Will.I.Am. Featuring 12 fascinating episodes that explore a diverse range of topics from the scientific world: Did God Create the Universe? with Stephen Hawking How Will the World End? with Samuel L. Jackson Parallel Universes: Are They Real? with Morgan Freeman Can You Live Forever? with Adam Savage How Evil Are You? with Eli Roth I Caveman with Morgan Spurlock Life Before Birth with Courtney Cox What's America Worth? with Donald Trump What's Beneath America? with Martin Sheen Why is Sex Fun? with Maggie Gyllenhaal World's Dirtiest Man with Mike Rowe When Robots Rule with Will.I.Am
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