Items Matching Tag 'documentary'

You Think You Know Me? The Story of Edge (DVD Details)
A three disk look at the Rated R Superstar Edge from his early beginnings to his time in the WWE, Tag Team glory with Christian and then his run as one of the most popular champions that WWE have ever had. The set includes two disks of Edge's best matches from his career including his final match at Wrestlemania.

The Epic Journey of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson (DVD Details)
He electrified a generation of sports entertainment fans with his brash style, superb athleticism, and uproarious interviews. He held the WWE Championship a record seven times, and was known for legendary battles with ''Stone Cold'' Steve Austin, Triple H, Mick Foley, Undertaker, and more. And at the peak of his popularity, he made a move to conquer a new industry, becoming an enormous movie star....

Four Horsemen (DVD Details)
As the global economy continues to veer from crisis to catastrophe many more people are looking for wise counsel on how to reshape the Western Economy. Over the last three years 23 global thinkers many of whom have been marginalised -have come together to break their silence and explain how the world really works. Their views transcend mainstream media and short-term political explanations to...

Story of Film (The): An Odyssey [Steelbook] (DVD Details)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Lovingly researched and five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each...

The Jazz Baroness (DVD Details)
The true story of a Jewish British Baroness who fell in love with the musical genius Thelonious Monk. Helen Mirren is the voice of the Jazz Baroness and Sonny Rollins, TS Monk Junior, The Duchess of Devonshire, Quincy Jones, Lord Rothschild, Roy Haynes, Chico Hamilton help recreate her story. The documentary uses private family papers, rare archive, original recordings and location filming to...

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (DVD Details)
A feature-length documentary about Roger Corman's life, career and remarkable influence on modern moviemaking. Blue jeans, sock-hops and drive-in movies: the Fifties were America's age of innocence. But stalking the depths of its post-nuclear bliss, mass paranoia became fuel for Joseph McCarthy's brand of Red Scare terror propaganda. Bomb shelters were a deluxe feature in every American home,...

WWE: Steve Austin:The Most Popular Superstar Of All Time (DVD Details)
Over 4 disks WWE presents the very best of arguably (or not) the greatest WWE superstar of all time: Stone Cold Steve Austin. This set covers his whole career, from his early days in USWA, WCW and ECW through to his debut in WWE as The Ringmaster and final emergence as Stone Cold Steve Austin. Over the four disks we also see some of Hall of Famer Stone Cold's greatest matches, some with...

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (DVD Details)
Boundary-pushing Oscar-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, a film that was fully financed through product placement from various brands, all of which are integrated transparently into the film. While using brands in film promotion is not new for Hollywood, it certainly is...

March of the Dinosaurs (DVD Details)
The Arctic: 70 million years ago. It is a world of extremes. Tropical summers of 24hr sunlight are replaced by freezing winters of continuous night. The remarkable dinosaurs that lived under the Northern Lights had to make a choice, brave the winter or head south to find the sun. Join Scar, a young Edmontosaurus embarking on his first thousand-mile migration. It is a journey for survival that is...

The Interrupters (DVD Details)
The Interrupters, all former gang members, bring 500 years of prison time to the table. As members of the experimental anti-violence programme CeaseFire, they aim to intervene in conflicts before they explode into violence. At their heart is Ameena Matthews, an ex-gang enforcer and daughter of a notorious gang leader who launches herself into the middle of erupting conflicts, using her rhetorical...

Pianomania (DVD Details)
Pianomania follows Stefan Knüpfer, a piano tuner from Steinway and his famous clients Lang Lang, Brendel, Buchbinder and Pierre-Laurent Aimard as they search for the perfect pitch. Truly an unusual and entertaining peak behind the curtain at the worlds great concert halls.

Time To Remember (DVD Details)
The TV series Time To Remember was a benchmark in documentary-making. Originally produced in the 1960s, it touched on all aspects of life in the first half of the Twentieth Century using British Pathé's unique blend of political, social, and cultural history. This revised BBC version re-interprets the material thematically in 12 episodes, while retaining the enduring charm of the original series...

Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (Blu-ray Details)
A Film of ferocious, haunting power" ***** TIME OUT    Based on the harrowing true story of one of America's most notorious mass-murderers, Henry Lee Lucas (portrayed with a dead-eye passivity by a scarily resonant Michael Rooker), John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer builds to a disquieting and horrific climax and provides a sobering, nightmarish glimpse into a deranged...

Look at Life: Volume 3 - Science (DVD Details)
Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced in the 1960s by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas – replacing the circuit’s newsreel, Universal News, which had become largely irrelevant with the advent of television news broadcasts. Marvellously concise and beautifully shot, these 'slice of life' colour...

WWE Randy Orton: The Evolution Of A Predator (DVD Details)
He's one of the most dangerous competitors in the history of WWE. He's relentless and remorseless: The Apex Predator. Randy Orton can end matches in the blink of an eye with his devasting RKO, and his brutal punts have earned him the deserved "Legend Killer" Moniker. Now, for the first time ever fans can trace this third-generation star's rise to the pinnacle of sports entertainment in Randy Orton:...

Megacities (DVD Details)
Behind the monuments, skyscrapers and boulevards of every major metropolis is an incredible infrastructure that keeps the city running. Released by FremantleMedia Enterprises in a 2-disc DVDset , Megacities takes a revolutionary look at the places where many of us live. Through dramatic storytelling, unparalleled access and sophisticated computer graphics blended seamlessly with live action,...

OMG! The Top 50 Incidents in WWE History (DVD Details)
They're the moments you will never forget; events that left an indelible impression on the WWE universe. Now you can relive them all with OMG! The Top 50 incidents in WWE history, a countdown of all the controversial, amazing and intense moments over the past 25 years. Featuring the exploits of Stone Cold Steve Austin, Undertaker, Triple H, Edge, Shawn Michaels, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, John...

The Hunt For Hitler & Hitler's Skull (DVD Details)
The Hunt for Hitler: The history books tell us that Adolf Hitler and his bride of 36 hours killed themselves in a Berlin bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945. Some say Hitler faked his suicide and fled to Argentina. The FBI spent years tracking false leads and sightings of Hitler. The Russian soldiers who claimed to have found his body said they incinerated it then dumped the...

National Geographic: Jurassic CSI / The Truth About T-Rex (DVD Details)
Jurassic CSI: In Jurassic CSI, dino detective Dr. Phil Manning launches a full-scale investigation to unearth how dinosaurs really looked and lived. Jurassic CSI goes into the minds, under the skin and inside the bones of the biggest, most impressive beasts ever to walk the planet. Dr. Manning doesn't stick to convention - or even his own discipline - on his perpetual quest to expand what we...

Hiroshima Mon Amour (DVD Details)
Alain Resnais’ groundbreaking first feature, Hiroshima Mon Amour, was a springboard for the French New Wave movement and its influence continues to this day. A nameless French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, passionate affair in post-war Hiroshima. Their deeply intense connection brings out scarred memories of love and suffering, which Resnais’...

Night and Fog (DVD Details)
Ten years following the Holocaust, Alain Resnais documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz while reflecting on the rise of Nazi ideology and the harrowing lives of the camp prisoners using haunting wartime footage. Night and Fog was one of the first films made about the Holocaust and remains one of the most important commentaries about this topic. François Truffaut had high praise for Night and...

Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai (Blu-ray Details)
Miyamoto Musashi is an instantly familiar name to any Japanese citizen, a legendary swordsman who has become part historical figure and part romanticised hero of myth. In addition to writing one of the key texts on Japanese samurai tactics and philosophy - The Book of Five Rings - he is also famous for inventing the Ni-Ten Ichi Ryu style of fighting with two swords, perhaps the most obvious,...

Baboons With Bill Bailey (DVD Details)
Cape Town in South Africa is home to some unique baboon families. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Table Mountain, this series follows their stories as they struggle to survive in this busy and exotic urban landscape. Bill Bailey knows baboons aren't as bad as everyone thinks they are. As an active patron of the Sumatran Orang-utan Society Bill is an informed enthusiast when it comes to...

Inside Job (DVD Details)
From Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (No End In Sight), comes Inside Job the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists,...

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (19 Discs) (DVD Details)
Dive beneath the waves with the pioneer of underwater filmmaking, as the legendary Jacques Cousteau comes to DVD at last! Discover some of Cousteau's greatest adventures aboard the world-famous research ship Calypso as they circle the globe seeking new understanding of the natural world in the 36-part TV series The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Together, these fantastic new releases are...

Jacques Cousteau: The Silent World (DVD Details)
Witness the birth of a new kind of documentary, as legendary diver, conservationist and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau takes you deep beneath the waves to explore a wealth of life that was previously hidden from view. As much of the technology for shooting film underwater was developed by Cousteau's team, this was the first time such amazing sights could be captured on film. The result, a...

Civilisation: Is The West History? (DVD Details)
The West once ruled more than half the world. The religion it exported is still followed by a third of mankind. Above all, the way people live--or aspire to live--is unmistakably an invention of the West. All over the world, more and more human beings eat a Western diet, wear Western clothes and live in Western housing. But are we living through the beginning of the end of the West’s ascendancy?...

The True Story of WrestleMania (DVD Details)
It is the most anticipated event in entertainment , an annual global pop-culture touch point. For more than 25 years, WrestleMania has hosted the biggest stars, the biggest celebrities and the biggest matches. Now for the first time ever, the true story of WrestleMania's evolution is told from the gamble of the premiere event at Madison Square Garden in 1985 through today's week-long...

Nazi Hunters (DVD Details)
A 13 part TV series on Yesterday depicting the relentless hunt of war criminals who, after committing some of the most atrocious crimes in history, have avoided retribution ... until now. Determined to lay justice on these perpetrators, the Nazi Hunters from Churchill to the SAS do anything and everything in their power, even if it means going against everything they believe in, to right the...

Blooded (DVD Details)
In October 2005, five young people were kidnapped in the Highlands of Scotland. Stripped and abandoned in the far corners of the wilderness, they were forced into a deadly game where the hunters became the hunted. Their ordeal was filmed by an extreme animal rights group as a warning to others: if you hunt...you're fair game. Combining dramatic reconstruction and compelling interviews with...