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Ax Men: Season 2 (3 Discs) (History Channel)
For more than a hundred years larger-than-life characters many of whom are members of logging families that go back to the time when the West was being settled have spent their days among towering trees and powerful machines and their nights in outposts far from the comforts of civilization. Snapped cables runaway logs and treacherous machinery are among the many dangers that threaten their lives and safety today. ; ; Going deeper into the forest high into the sky and even down into the sea SEASON TWO of AX MEN follows two of last season's leading teams along with three new companies - including a team of diving loggers and another that uses helicopters to maximize its output - as they race to fall the most timber during logging's most dangerous season. A series of fighting mechanical failures relentless weather and unpredictable terrain ensues - witness with HISTORY how these brave men battle the elements picking up where their fathers and grandfathers left off to conquer America's final frontier.
Blackadder: Series 1
Throughout the ages men of flair faculty and outstanding courage have contributed to England's glorious heritage. Others like the snivelling worm Edmund Duke of Edinburgh (alias The Black Adder) the bitter and twisted son of a medieval king have emerged from the dust of dodgy documents to claim their wrongful position in history. ; ; The Foretelling: From out of the swirling mist of the dark Ages comes a lone horseman cursed from youth by a deformed haircut and sporting a particularly evil pair of tights. (Guest starring Peter Cook as Richard III) ; ; Born To Be King: Treachery murder and Morris-dancing break out in all their full horror when an orange-faced stranger arrives at court. ; ; The Archbishop: The landscape is littered with dead Archbishops of Canterbury. Edmund's cunning plan is to get his deadliest rival appointed to the vacancy... ; ; The Queen Of Spain's Beard: The King's international treachery gives the hideous Edmund a chance to press his clammy body against one of Eurpoe's most eligible princesses. (Guest starring Miriam Margolyes as Princess Maria) ; ; Witchsmeller Pursuivant: The King is a bit under the weather with the Black Death. Witchcraft is diagnosed by The Black Adder and only one man can root it out... (Guest starring Frank Finlay stars as the repulsive Witchsmeller) ; ; The Black Seal: In the final gesture of defiance Edmund rides forth to seek out the Seven Most Evil Men in the land and return with them to seize the throne. (Guest starring Rik Mayall as Mad Gerald)
Dad's Army: Series 1 (With Series 2 Lost Episodes)
Classic TV comedy from the Home Guards at Walmington-On-Sea who are both bumbling and ineffectual as well as incompetent which makes life chaotic for all around! Originally transmitted in 1968 (and recently voted no.4 in Britain's Best Sitcom) this DVD release contains all of the first series followed by the surviving episodes of the second series. Unfortunately the other three instalments remain missing and presumed lost forever... ; ; Episodes from Series 1: ; ; The Man And The Hour: the men get together to form the Home Guard following a radio broadcast. ; ; Museum Piece Capt Mainwaring looks for guns for his men in the local museum! ; ; Command Decision A Captain comes offering guns if he can take command of the platoon. ; ; Enemy Within The Gates Capt. Mainwaring gives a lecture on the recognition of enemy agents when he learns there is a reward for every Nazi captured... ; ; The Showing Up Of Cpl. Jones The platoon members finally get their uniforms and Cpl. Jones attempts an assault course... ; ; Shooting Pains A shooting contest arranged to see who will form the honour guard when the Prime Minister pays a visit. ; ; Series 2 episodes are: ; ; Operation Kilt The platoon being attacked by the Highland Regiment! ; ; The Battle Of Godfrey's Cottage The platoon leap into action and take over poor Godfrey's cottage to set up a machine post. ; ; Sergeant Wilson's Little Secret Sgt. Wilson overhears a conversation which implies that he might be the father of an expected child but as usual he gets the wrong end of the stick.
Frank Capra Collection Box Set
Titles Comprise: ; ; It's A Wonderful Life (1946) This collectors edition of Frank Capra's masterpiece is the ultimate feel good film. Starring the unforgettable James Stewart as George Bailey the man who receives the greatest Christmas gift of all. A superb ensemble cast includes Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore this high spirited Christmas tale is directed by the immortal Frank Capra and ranks as an all-time favourite of fans and critics alike. ; ; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) James Stewart Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in this award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic small-town politician who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him... ; ; You Can't Take It With You (1938) James Stewart Jean Arthur Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold star in this screwball comedy. Arthur stars as Alice Sycamore the stable family member of an offbeat clan of free spirits who falls for Stewart the down-to-earth son of a snooty wealthy family. Amidst a backdrop of confusion the two very different families rediscover the simple joys of life... ; ; It Happened One Night (1934) Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly) who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York Ellie gets involved with an out-of-work newsman Peter Warne (Gable). When their bus breaks down the bickering couple set off on a madcap hitchhiking expedition. Peter hopes to parlay the inside story of their misadventures into a job. But complications fly when the runaway heiress and brash reporter fall in love.
ITV Christmas Compilation (4 Discs)
This bumper Christmas compilation features episodes from many of the all time sitcom greats including: On The Buses Nearest & Dearest Rising Damp Please Sir! Dustbinmen Two's Company Billy Liar Home To Roost The Rag Trade Duty Free Watching and many more! ; ; Episodes Include: ; 1. The Dustbinmen Christmas Special (1969) ; 2. Please Sir! - Peace In Our Time (1970) ; 3. On The Buses - Christmas Duty (1970) ; 4. All This And Christmas Too (1971) ; 5. Nearest And Dearest - Cindermellie (1972) ; 6. Billy Liar - The Gift Of Magi (1973) ; 7. Captain Ridley ; 8. Duty Free - A Duty Free Christmas ; 9. You're Only Young Twice - Twas The Night Before Christmas ; 10. Home To Roost - Family Ties ; 11. Watching - Seasoning ; 12. Two's Company - A Long Christmas (1976) ; 13. Stanley Baxter's Christmas Box (1976) ; 14. The Rag Trade - The Christmas Rush (1977) ; 15. Bless Me Father - The Season Of Good Will (1979) ; 16. The Army Game - Bootserella (1960) ; 17. George And The Dragon - Merry Christmas (1966) ; 18. You're Only Young Twice - Christmas At Paradise Lodge (1979) ; 19. My Husband And I (1987) ; 20. Only When I Laugh - Christmas Special (1981) ; 21. That's My Boy - Cold Turkey (1983) ; 22. Hallelujah - A Goose For Mrs Scratchit (1984)
Joe Egan: The Toughest Men On The Planet
The incredible story of the Irish 'Rocky' who fought his way back against all the odds to become one of boxing's greatest heroes ! As a young Heavyweight Joe left Ireland to join Mike Tyson in Cus D'Amato's legendary training camp in the Catskill Mountains and became one of his greatest friends. Iron Mike labelled Joe 'The Toughest white Man on the Planet' because he couldn't put him down - neither could Lennox Lewis. With his heavyweight career tragically ended in a serious road accident Joe's life spiralled into decline - he was shot in a gun battle with gangsters and later charged with attempted murder before finally serving time in prison. Back on the streets again Joe put his life back together and at the age of 38 returned to the ring in triumph ! This is the story of one man's battle against adversity and how he wouldn't give up his fight to be recognised as one of The Toughest Men On The Planet!
Match Of The Day - The 60s The 70s And The 80s
On August 22nd 1964 the BBC launched a new weekly football series called Match of the Day: Liverpool played Arsenal Kenneth Wolstenholme was the commentator and television viewers entered a brave new football world. No one could predict that the fledgling programme watched by 20 000 people would ultimately attract millions of viewers and would run for over a quarter of a century. ; ; The 60's charts the development of the series when the game was blessed with true characters and outstanding players who became masters in gripping televised football. It was the era of Best Law and Charlton of Bell Lee and Summerbee of the mercurial Jimmy Greaves of Shankly's Liverpool Catterick's Everton and Sir Alf Ramsey's England. ; ; As Match of the Day moved into the 70's it reflected the continued high profile of the nation's favourite sport. Over 32 million people watched Chelsea beat Leeds in the 1970 FA Cup Final replay and Match of the Day was now an essential part of the weekend's TV viewing. ; ; The flair men still existed - Keegan Hudson Currie Bowles Osgood Worthington and of course Best - filing the nation's screens with skill and daring and replacing the innocence of the previous decade with a new brand of professionalism. ; ; As Match of the Day took televised football into the 80's it brought new concepts for a new decade. Dominated by Liverpool whose roll-call of honours during the 80's was truly awe-inspiring it was also the decade when Howard Kendall's Everton took their first League title for fifteen years and Wimbledon beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup Final. ; ; It was the decade of Bryan Robson Bobby Robson Butcher and Beasant Dalglish Hoddle Lineker and Rush - a decade of compulsive football action brought to millions of viewers by Match of the Day.
Men Behaving Badly - Series 1
Get the take-away pizzas in sit back and stuff yourself with the whole of the first series of Men Behaving Badly. Using only the finest comedy ingredients Series One takes you back to where it all began. So dig in and treat yourself to a large slice of hilarious comedy. ; ; Episodes include: ; ; Intruders: Gary wants to leave his girlfriend Dorothy but she decides to leave him first. Gary owns a flat and needs a lodger to help pay the mortgage. Unfortunately he's got Dermot as a lodger and he's no help at all. A young woman named Deborah moves into the flat upstairs and Dermot immediately decides he's in love with her. The feeling isn't mutual though! ; ; The Bet: Gary and Dermot play chess to decide who will win an evening of pleasure. ; ; Alarms & Setbacks: Gary tries to impress Deborah by installing a burglar alarm while Dermot tries to impress her by offering his body! ; ; Animals: Gary suggests to Dorothy that they should have an 'open relationship'. Much to his surprise she agrees... ; ; Sex & Violence: Dermot organises a romantic dinner for Deborah. ; ; My Brilliant Career: Gary thinks that he's been offered a new job so takes his staff out to dinner so that he can tell them that he's leaving! Will he be correct? Meanwhile Dermot loses his job after he dangles a customer by the ankles.
NASA's Greatest Missions (4 Discs)
Since the dawn of mankind we have stared up at the lights in the sky and wondered... Now join the heroic men and women of NASA who have dared the impossible on some of the greatest adventures ever undertaken the quest to reach out beyond Earth and into the great unknown of space! Discovery Channel has collaborated with NASA to reveal the epic struggles tragedies and triumphs in a bold chapter of human history.
No Country For Old Men
The Academy Award winning adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's violent poetic and darkly funny crime novel No Country For Old Men sees The Coen Brothers produce their finest thriller to date. Set amongst the wild empty and imposing landscape of 1980s Texas No Country For Old Men is a masterly tale of the good the deranged and the outright doomed. ; ; Approaching retirement Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) is one of the last links to the history of Texas' Old West and the men who patrolled the frontiers of decency and lawlessness. These days though he feels less and less able to comprehend the new breed of violent criminals that have drifted into his jurisdiction. Violent men like Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem): an enigmatic psychopathic and obsessively compulsive killer who determines the fate of his victims with a quick flip of a coin. Chigurh an ex-special-forces operative turned hit man has been hired to track down two million dollars in cash taken from the scene of a drug-deal gone awry and whoever spirited it away. That man is Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin): a financially struggling hardened Vietnam veteran who stumbled upon the money and a substantial amount of heroin amongst a sea of bloody corpses and a bullet-strewn truck whilst hunting antelope in the desert near the Mexican border. ; ; McCarthy's melancholic and muscular prose is a perfect match for the Coen brothers' unique brand of poker-faced irony. The narrative ellipses entwine with the Coens' modern noir nonchalance and dark humour to highlight and explore the similarities and differences of Moss Chigurh and Bell as they try to track one another down. With dark intelligence and an unstoppable array of sly wit No Country For Old Men is reminiscent of Joel and Ethan Coen's early neo-noir motion picture Blood Simple and their much-lauded Academy Award winning Fargo and is a cat-and-mouse chase epic that engages and excites from beginning to end.
Repo Men
In the near-future people can enhance their bodies replacing any damaged organ with artificial replacements. There's one catch: it's expensive and if you can't keep up with the payments your body parts will be repossessed by the 'Repo Men'... with painful and bloody results! ; ; Jude Law plays Remy one of the best Repo Men. When he falls behind on the payments for his new heart his old partner Jake (Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker) is sent to hunt him down and rip his new heart out. ; ; Now that the hunter is the hunted Remy joins Beth (Alice Braga) on the run across a landscape populated by friends and foes becoming a champion for thousands like him on the run from the Repo Men.
The Indian Collection (3 Discs)
Cry Blood Apache ; ; Starring Jody Mccrea And Jack Starrett directed by Jack Starrett. ; ; When five unscrupulous men find gold in a small Indian village they massacre the inhabitants bar one young squaw who they hope will lead them to more. They are unaware that an Apache brave absent during the slaughter is now tracking them down with a single-minded purpose - revenge. Their deaths will not be quick but they will come sooner than they expected. ; ; Mohawk ; ; Starring Scott Brady Rita Gam and Neville Brand directed by Kurt Neumann. ; ; An artist working in a remote army post falls in love with an Indian chief's daughter but when Butler a vengeful settler manages to get the army and the Indian braves at each other's throats the artist's troubles really begin. The once peaceful settlement quickly becomes a powder keg of emotion with both sides capable of lighting the spark. ; ; The Battle Of Bloody Stones ; ; Starring Stuart Whitman Henry Wilcoxon and Gene Evans directed by Richard C Sarafian. ; ; When Wildcat Gallagher's Wild West Show hits town trouble starts when the show's main attraction features the re-enactment of a cavalry slaughter of Indians called The Battle of Bloody Stones. When the local Indians become angry with the way that the battle is portrayed conflict erupts between the Indians and Wildcat Gallagher's men. The unprovoked death of John Wolf son of Indian Chief Ghost Wolf only fans the flames and brings both sides closer to war. ; ; Heller ; ; Starring Stuart Whitman Tuesday Weld and Morgan Woodward directed by Gunnar Hellstrom. ; ; Logan Purcell and his band of raiders have been stealing anything and everything from a peaceful Indian settlement and ruthlessly shoot down Willie Snake a young Indian brave. As Purcell makes his escape a US Marshal tracks him down only to be injured during a gunfight. Wounded the marshal is rescued by a young woman who helps nurse him back to health only to discover that Purcell has a powerful hold on her. ; ; Sitting Bull ; ; Starring Dale Robertson Mary Murphy and J. Carrol Naish directed by Sydnet Salkow. ; ; In the Black Hills of Dakota war is brewing between the United States Army and a tribe of Sioux Indians led by the legendary Chief Sitting Bull. Despite numerous treaties the Indian Nation finds themselves victimised murdered and driven from their land. Major Parrish is a man caught between his duty and his conscience - appalled at the treatment of the Indians but unable to stop the military machine. ; ; Kentucky Rifle ; ; Starring Chill Wills Lance Fuller and Cathy Downs directed by Carl K. Hittleman. ; ; A wagon with a broken axle is left behind by the rest of the wagon-train in hostile Comanche Indian country. The contents of the wagon are Kentucky rifles - weapons destined for settlers to use to protect themselves against a savage land. The occupants of the wagon are an unlikely collection who must become fast friends in order to survive in such a hostile environment.
The James Stewart Collection Box Set
It's A Wonderful Life (Dir. Frank Capra 1946): Starring the unforgettable James Stewart as George Bailey the man who receives the greatest Christmas gift of all. A superb ensemble cast includes Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore this high spirited Christmas tale is Directed by the immortal Frank Capra and ranks as an all-time favourite of fans and critics alike. ; ; Harvey (Dir. Henry Koster 1950): James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd a wealthy alcoholic whose sunny disposition and drunken antics are tolerated by most of the citizens of his community. That is until Elwood begins to claim that he has a friend named Harvey who is an invisible six foot rabbit. Elwood's snooty socialite sister Veta determined to marry off her daughter Myrtle to a respectable man begins to plot to keep Elwood's lunacy from interfering. ; ; Rear Window (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock 1954): Alfred Hitchcock amply demonstrates why he's been called "The Master of Suspense" with this both witty and macabre tale of voyeurism and murder starring two of cinema's all-time favourites James Stewart and Grace Kelly. L. B. Jeffries (Stewart) a photographer with a broken leg takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbours during a summer heat wave. But things really hot up when he suspects one neighbour of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden. ; ; Mr Smith Goes to Washington (Dir. Frank Capra 1939): James Stewart Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in this award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic small-town politician who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him.
The Stanley Kubrick Collection: The Killing / Paths Of Glory / The Killer's Kiss
The Killing: When ex-con Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) says he has a plan to make a killing everybody want to be in on the action. Especially when the plan is to steal $2 million in a racetrack robbery scheme in which "no one will get hurt." But despite all their careful plotting Clay and his men have overlooked on thing: Sherry Peatty (Marie Windsor) a money-hungry double-crossing dame who's planning to make a financial killing of her own...even if she has to wipe out Clay's entire gang to do it! ; ; Paths Of Glory: Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax: take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal blunder the Generals order the arrest of three innocent soldiers charging them with cowardice and mutiny. Dax a lawyer in civilian life rises to the men's defense but soon realizes that unless he can prove that the Generals were to blame nothing less than a miracle will save his clients from the firing squad. ; ; The Killer's Kiss: Stanley Kubrick's second film Killer's Kiss made the world take notice. The young moviemaker won acclaim for this dazzling film noir about a struggling New York boxer (Jamie Smith) whose life is imperiled when he protects a nightclub dancer (Irene Kane) from her gangster boss (Frank Silvera). "Using his camera as a sandpaper block Kubrick has stripped away the veneer from the prizefight and dancehall worlds " the New York Mirror proclaimed. ; ; Killer's Kiss not only lends considerable insight into future Kubrick classics - such as The Killing and Full Metal Jacket - but is also a remarkable film in its own right: the boxing match may be the most vicious this side of Raging Bull and the famed final battle remains an action tour-de-force.
The Vicar Of Dibley: A Very Dibley Christmas - Merry Christmas / Happy New Year
This release features both of the Christmas Specials. ; ; Merry Christmas: It has been 10 years since Geraldine became the vicar of Dibley and everyone is determined to celebrate her anniversary. But as usual nothing goes according to plan and she soon has to deal with a disastrous chocolate gift an unexpected visit from a supermodel and a depressed Frank. ; ; Happy New Year: It is Geraldine's 40th birthday and the parish council decide the best way to make it an occasion to remember is a night at "Suzie's Speed-Dating Extravaganza."
