Best Selling Documentary DVDs

Nugus Martin Productions has accumulated probably the best collection of rare and unseen footage of World War II in the world. By using the very latest colorization techniques it is now possible to show the full story of World War II as it has never been fully seen before. With the very latest s...

N.Z.S.A.S: First Among Equals is a stunning 4 part documentary series on the inner-workings of the most elite fighting force NZ has.  The timing is perfect to release this DVD for father's day  Especially given the huge recent media coverage of Willy Apiata's recent distinction in Afghanis...

Yellowstone is no ordinary wilderness, it is the world’s first national park and one of the world’s last and most spectacular wildernesses. It is also home to some of the richest wildlife beyond the plains of Africa. Vast panoramas are coupled with intimate close ups as this landmark ...

All four episodes of the ITV travel series following comedian Billy Connolly as he completes a lifelong dream by travelling the world's most famous highway. Mounting his trusty trike, Billy puts a modern spin on 'Easy Rider' as he journeys along the 2488 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica. To the ac...

Peter Elliot, one of New Zealand’s best known actors and presenters, goes on a journey through time to unravel New Zealand’s ancient past and for the first time reveals the surprising origins of our most iconic animals... be prepared to be shocked!

They are mischievous characters: clever thieves, hard-hearted killers, kidnappers ... and hilariously funny. Are they characters from the latest Hollywood blockbuster or from our own back yard? Meet the Kea - New Zealand’s mountain parrot - a uniquely intelligent and bold creature that lives high...

The Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Inside Job directed by Charles Ferguson is 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 ex...

A fast-paced and fascinating series with universal appeal combining CGI, archive and actuality footage to show how modern technology has shaped the objects we use, fight with, live and travel in. Find out how and why our 21st century weapons, buildings, superstructures and vehicles have evolved ...

In this fascinating documentary produced by the award-winning Memory Line team, we return to the remote and inhospitable Denniston Plateau with some of the miners and men who worked on the Incline. As they tell their story, high quality 35mm archive movie film graphically shows how the coal was take...

Includes Inside the Titanic and Titanic and Me. **Inside the Titanic** For the first time, this dramatised documentary shows what happened from the point of view of the killer itself: the water. Sometimes it crept unseen, at other times it roared. One minute it was hidden, the next it was ever...

Some Secrets Are Kept Forever… Vincent Ward's deeply personal and incredibly moving film unravels and re-imagines the story of Puhi, the Tuhoe woman he documented in 1978 for his early film In Spring One Plants Alone. Then she was 80 and caring for her adult son, and Ward was 21, a young a...

Freakonomics is the highly anticipated adaptation of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. The film examines human behaviour through consistently provocative and often hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmaker...

The Story Behind New Zealand’s Most Successful Drama Series. The West family, their friends and associates laughed, cried, loved, drank and swore their way into the hearts of audiences at home and around the world. Now, Outrageous Fortune: Revealed, goes behind the scenes of this iconic sho...

Documentary about the life and death of Brazilian racing driver and three-time Formula One World Champion Ayrton Senna. The film charts Senna's career from his Formula One debut in the mid-1980s to his tragic death in a crash on the San Marino Grand Prix racing track in 1994, which was being watched...

Set against the imposing mountains and isolated beaches in a remote part of New Zealand, This Way of Life is an intimate portrait of a Maori family and their relationship with nature, adversity, their horses and society at large. Peter and Colleen Karena are in their early 30’s. They have s...

“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” So says Buck Brannaman, a gentle spirit and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine gruelling months a year, helping horses with people problems. BUCK follows Brannaman from his ab...

For sixty years Queen Elizabeth II has reigned as the Queen of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. Her reign has seen three different generations look upon her as firstly, one of the two young Princesses, then the radiant and reliant Queen of a changing Empire; and finally, to the younger generation...

A potent mix of music, politics and sporting prowess, Stevan Riley's exuberant documentary charts the rise of one of the most successful sporting teams in history. After a series of humiliating defeats in the mid 1970s, the West Indian cricket team underwent an astonishing transformation from 'C...

Throughout its thousand year history the Tower Of London has been at times a fortress, a palace, a prison, a treasury and an armoury. It has welcomed Kings, Queens and Princes as both residents and prisoners and has been at times a family home and a place of torture and execution. These three progra...

Award winning film director Janus Metz arrives in Afghanistan with a group of young soldiers on their first tour of duty. Stationed on the Helmand frontline in Camp Armadillo the platoon fights increasingly fierce battles with an enemy that is nearby but rarely seen. Metz captures life on the frontl...

From sea to source, an epic journey following the longest river in the world... Joanna Lumley embarks on the trip of a lifetime; to follow the River Nile. On a 4000 mile journey, Joanna revisits the romantic history of the longest river in the world and talks with the people working and living th...

There is one man in New Zealand still passionate enough about our rails and the country they roll through, to put words into action. A train buff himself, Marcus Lush heads OFF THE RAILS, venturing from Bluff in the south to Opua in the North, on a remarkable array of railways - coal, freight, steam...

Producer, narrator and best friend to Michael Jackson, David Gest has pieced together the most important facts about Jackson’s life based on unseen first-hand accounts he has recently recorded with an important group of people who knew the star well. In addition to celebrating his many achievements...

On October 15, 2007, activists around New Zealand woke to guns in their faces. Black-clad police smashed down doors, dragging families out onto roads. In the rural village of Rūātoki, helicopters hovered while locals were stopped at roadblocks. Operation 8 involved 18 months of invasive surveillance...

A landmark documentary series from the BBC to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years as Head of State of the united Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth. For the first time in modern history a Monarch reaches their Diamond Jubilee. To mark the occasion The Diamond Queen presents a definitive analy...

**A unique and exclusive look into the life of the quiet Beatle.** By the age of 25 George Harrison had achieved unparalleled international fame and financial success as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. He spent years navigating the Lennon-McCartney song writing team, while quietly establishing...

The inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution the Galapagos Islands are a living laboratory a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of many species of plants and animals. As the western islands rise up from the sea offering a chance of life the eastern islands sink b...

Lego. Heineken. IKEA. Coke. The retail world is made up of millions of products vying for the public's attention. Among this overwhelming supply of consumer options, demand for a few select products is so high that they become ubiquitous. The logos of these products, their use, and even their col...

A breathtaking journey through time, culture and art, this 18-part series includes stunning images of rarely seen treasures that represent the development of world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century. Originally built in 1754, the State Hermitage museum in St Petersberg, occup...

At the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, no-one's heard of Tim Minchin, a young musician who in a last ditch attempt to get noticed decides to give comedy a go. He needs to start to make an income if his childhood sweetheart, now his wife, is to get her way and start a family. This will ...

Following on from his 2010 BBC series 'Wonders of the Solar System', physicist Brian Cox presents this exploration of the universe and its effect on human life. Vast, complex and almost infinite, the universe has been the subject of human fascination and scientific exploration for thousands of years...

A compelling new look into Roman history… Filled with dramatic re-enactments and action-packed battle scenes, ROME: RISE AND FALL OF AN EMPIRE chronicles the story of one of history’s greatest empires from its first major battle to its remarkable military feats and through its eventu...

The war stole everything, except their music WAR DANCE follows a group of Ugandan school children as they rehearse for the National Music Competition. But these are not typical subjects of a music documentary: ravaged by war and having witnessed numerous atrocities, the children dance to forget t...

DESIGNED BY NATURE . BUILT TO SURVIVE. Nature has endowed the most highly adapted predators in the animal kingdom with unique and deadly hunting tools to not only survive but prevail. Utilising stealth, speed, ambush, poison and camouflage as tactics, they stalk and overcome their prey with fata...

Following on from the Emmy® Award-winning WWII Lost Films, WWII Lost Films - The Air War is the next landmark documentary to present visually restored, never-beforeseen archival footage in stunning HD colour. This 2 hour HISTORY™ special travels with 4 US WWII veterans through the history ...

The Challenge: nothing bu McDonald's for 30 days - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Three Rules: 1. only eat what is available over the counter (water included); 2. must supersize if offered; 3. Eat everything on the menu at least once. Overstuffed with fat and facts about a billion dollar industry besi...

They are the moments when history was writ in blood; when armies determined the fate of empires and men became myths. They are the Decisive Battles of the Ancient World. In a groundbreaking three-disc release, The History Channel presents the 13 defining points of ancient warfare-moments that al...

Bill Maher travels to Israel, England, the Netherlands, Vatican City, and across America, speaking to people about faith and religion in the very funny documentary Religulous. Maher, a stand-up comedian who has hosted talk shows and has written such bestsellers as Does Anyone Have a Problem With Tha...

Until now… the only people to see the war like this were the ones who lived it. Culled from over 3000hours of rare, colour film footage found in a twoyear worldwide search and converted to HD with meticulous technique, WWII Lost Films: WWII in HD provides a picture of the Second World War ...

WHAT WENT WRONG? CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN? Dramatic examinations from infamous moments in history leading up to some of the world's greatest modern disasters such as the Mont Blanc tunnel fire and the Concorde disaster leave all too familiar memories. This ground breaking show blends advanced Compute...