Best Selling History, Art & Culture 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This exciting new series takes a fresh approach to the great battles of WW2, examining them through the decisions, dilemmas and disasters of the generals on both sides of conflict. We explore their moves and countermoves as they attempt to outwit and outfight each other. The battles featured are...

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...

Experience the fascinating story of how spices shaped our modern world! The Spice Trail is a story of epic voyages, bloody wars, the birth of multinational companies and contemporary cultures around the globe. In Medieval times spices were thought to have medicinal properties that could cure ...

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...

During World War II there were nearly 2500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British North Borneo. Along with the ravages of war and the struggle to survive abject conditions only six of these POWs were found alive when the war finally ended. In the years that followed the horror stories...

We all know their names – Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Caligula, Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Hannibal, King Herod and Nero – now discover the truth behind their dastardly deeds. Informed by the latest research, this uncompromising series cuts through the folklore to present an accur...

"For nearly two centuries, the Knights Templar was the most powerful order in the medieval world. Today the group’s legacy is played out in an array of Hollywood blockbusters and numerous works of popular literature. Despite the Knights’ long reign of power, the order experienced a sudden collaps...

The Very Name of King Arthur evokes a whole world of chivalry and romance, of gleaming castles, gallant knights and beautiful ladies. With all the attributes of a god and the failings of a man, Arthur is the perfect hero for all people at all times. His story contains all the ingredients of classic ...

With shells crashing around his bunker and planes droning overhead, Adolf Hitler faced the reality of defeat and took his life. But then his body disappeared mysteriously and decades later we learn that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin concealed his body. NGT uses forensic science and insight from interv...

With splendour, scale and romance, Wild China lifts the veil on the world's most enigmatic and magnificent country, delving into its vibrant habitats to reveal a land of unbelievable natural complexity. Journey across China from the glittering peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub Arc...

All the Memoryline collection in one box set. Contains: - Main Trunk Century - Total Steam - On Denniston - Rimutaka Incline - Rails In The Wilderness - North Island Main Trunk

The complete, cinematic history of the US. Narrated by Live Schrieber (Wolverine, Salt) and featuring American icons: Buzz Aldrin, Michael Douglas, Donald Trump, Colin Powell, Meryl Streep and more - this 12-part epic series is the most watched premiere for the prestigious US HISTORY™ netwo...

Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling Ken Burns's epic documentary brings to life America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. With digitally enhanced images and new stereo sound here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers a heroic and tr...

Contemporary China, seen through the eyes of her people. Remarkable. Unexpected. Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker Jonathan Lewis and his team have been granted unprecedented access by the Chinese government to film across the country, including Tibet and Muslim X injiang, and to interview...

This innovative feature length documentary, directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Jessica Yu explores the parallel lives of legendary outsider artist Henry Darger (Reclusive janitor by day, visionary artist by night) and his 15,000 page novel and incredible paintings. In the Realms of the Unre...

This stunning High Definition documentary details the military strategies and radical warfare techniques that allowed a twenty-two-year-old king to defeat a superior military force and, in one decisive victory, topple the mighty Persian Empire. Known as the Battle of Gaugamela, it is viewed as on...

What is the truth about vampires? IS IT REAL VAMPIRES: Take part in a journey to the Carpathian Mountains in Romania to dissect the legend of Dracula. Is Bram Stoker's mythical count based on a real person? Historians, folklorists, forensic science and modern medicine add insight to enduring vam...

CLASSICISM This cultural tour of the world's greatest art galleries and museums takes a close look at the most renowned classical masterpieces. In a trip to Paris' Louvre museum Justine Shapiro also admires Da Vinci's work the famous Mona Lisa. In neighbouring Belgium Katy Haswell marvels at the...

Steam log haulers dragged the felled trees on skylines and through dense undergrowth. Centre stage in this drama were the tramway engines, or lokeys — legendary designs from the USA like Heisler and Climax and New Zealand-built Price and Johnston - hauling the logs out over high timber trestle...

Sister Wendy Beckett, hermit nun with a roguish smile and a most unorthodox passion for art, has been lauded in the press as, "the best talker on art since Lord Clark gave us Civilisation". Her observations are sometimes shocking and candid, sometimes poignant and emotional. She hopes t...

This is the story of the 20th Century novel, told by the authors themselves - great novelists talking candidly about their life and work including Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells and EM Forster through to Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel. The series pro...

An unprecedented global journey to explore the frontiers of how we view colour, make colour and use the power of colour to communicate meaning. Colour is a fundamental part of our world. Landscapes, animals, fashion, painting, movies, food ? everything around us resonates with the language of co...

Unearthing our earliest ancestors! This three-part, three-hour special investigates explosive new discoveries that are transforming the picture of how we became human. The first program explores fresh clues about our earliest ancestors in Africa, including the stunningly complete fossil nickn...

Eight Barbarian tribes. A Millennium of terror… In these eight acclaimed programs from HISTORY™, Barbarians explores the origins of the Vikings, the Goths, the Mongols, the Huns, the Vandals, the Saxons, the Franks and the Lombards. Shot on location, Emmy® Award-winning documenta...

Foretelling the end of the world? For thousands of years, cultures across the globe have generated dark prophecies warning of doomsday scenarios that will bring the world to a cataclysmic end. Nostradamus Effect reveals the most chilling of these prophecies in an intriguing 12 part series, attemp...

There’s never been a WW2 documentary quite like this one. Utilising home movie footage, and state-of-the-art colourising technology, the viewer is taken on a entirely different history of the great war. You’ll see viewpoints from all sides, and learn about aspects of the war that have ra...

This unique set tells the story of the Celtic lands of Britain, and features location footage, authentic re-enactments and dramatized reconstructions. Experience the great events, stories, myths and traditions which shaped Celtic Britain. This set contains 3 DVDs. MYSTERIOUS BRITAIN: Throughout ...

The Ascent of Man is regarded as one of television's greatest achievements. Dr Jacob Bronowski traces the steps of scientific imagination through history as they happened, where they happened. This lavish and thought-provoking series tells the story of the ideas that have transformed our lives.Mo...

A Quick Guide To The French Revolution details this pivotal period in European history, focusing on how the revolution shook the very foundations of monarchy, destroyed the last vestiges of feudalism, and planted the seeds of modern politics, diplomacy, and nationalism. Travel back to the days o...

In the early decades of the twentieth century, a storm of modernism swept through the art worlds of the West, uprooting centuries of tradition in the visual arts, music, literature, dance, theater and beyond. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France. Paris The Luminous Years, explores this u...

This is your ticket for a remarkable journey back in time. The 'Secrets of Ancient Empires' collection takes you back many thousands of years to the mysterious days of antiquity. This unique collection traces the development of the ancient peoples, revealing new secrets and exploring myths as it...