Dances With Wolves
on DVD
(1990) Starring:Gordon Tootoosis, Wes Studi, Mary McDonnell Director:Kevin Costner Certificate:
In the year 1864, Lieutenant John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) requests an assignment to a remote outpost in the American West. Spending a lot of time by himself, Dunbar falls in love with the frontier, and becomes firm friends with the local Lakota Indians. Before long he finds himself contravening ..read more »
The Big Blue
on DVD
(1988) Starring:Griffin Dunne, Sergio Castellitto, Valentina Vargas Director:Luc Besson Certificate:
A visionary epic of obsession and beauty about Jacques Mayol, the handsome diver who is so at home in the water that he seems only half-human. Jacques' best friends are a family of playful porpoises and Enzo Molinari, his swaggering Italian diving rival. Jacques and Enzo grew up together in the ..read more »
The Constant Gardener(2005) Starring:Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston Director:Fernando Meirelles Certificate:
Hard-hitting political thriller based on the novel by John Le Carre, and the first English-speaking feature from director Fernando Meirelles. When political activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz, in an Oscar-winning performance) is found brutally murdered in Kenya, her widowed husband, unassuming ..read more »
Blood Diamond
on DVD
(2006) Starring:Djimon Hounsou, Basil Wallace, Michael Sheen Director:Edward Zwick Certificate: Watch now: Unavailable
Edward Zwick directs this tale of a prized diamond, the hands through which it passes and the inhumanity that results from man's greed. Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a former Zimbabwean mercenary now living in Sierra Leone during the '91-'00 civil war. Archer hears that an imprisoned Mende ..read more »
Leon
on DVD
(1994) Starring:Natalie Portman, Peter Appel, Jean Reno Director:Luc Besson Certificate:
English language thriller from Luc Besson, the director of 'Nikita'. Gary Oldman plays Norman Stansfield, a psychotic government official whose actions provide the catalyst for murder on the New York streets. When a young girl named Mathilda (Natalie Portman) witnesses her family being gunned down ..read more »
The Beach
on DVD
(2000) Starring:Guillaume Canet, Virginie Ledoyen, Tilda Swinton Director:Danny Boyle Certificate:
The desire to find something real - to connect with something or someone - is what drives Richard, a young American backpacker who arrives in Thailand with adventure on his mind. Travel, he asserts, is the search for experience, the quest for something different. At a cheap hotel in Bangkok, ..read more »
Ray Mears Extreme Survival - Series 1 And 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2003) Starring:Ray Mears (Pres, Narr) Certificate:
The entire first and second BBC documentary series presented by Ray Mears. Mears looks at the kind of survival techniques one would need if stranded in extreme condition such as the Arizona desert or the snows of Lapland, and uses real-life survivors' stories to illustrate these.
Ray Mears - Bushcraft - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring:Ray Mears Certificate:
First series of the survival expert's exploration of 'bushcraft', as Ray Mears demonstrates how ancient techniques for use in the wild can still be used today in survival training.
Escape To River Cottage
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1999) Starring:Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Director:Billy Paulett, Andrew Palmer, Zam Baring Certificate:
The entire Channel Four television series, in which TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall lives the self-sufficiency dream; which includes raising his own pigs and then having to slaughter them, producing his own smoked fish, keeping an eye on the mice in his house and cooking a variety of meals ..read more »