Not only is Planet Earth one of the most jaw-dropping, ambitious, nature documentaries the BBC has ever produced, it’s now taken on another role: as a superb demonstration disc for the strength of and Blu-ray. Spread over a good ten hours, the series charts life and nature in dozens upon dozens of differing locations around the earth. Diligently and warmly narrated by Sir David ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: David Attenborough

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Jeremy Clarkson

As befits the BBC's reputation for producing some of the world's best nature documentaries, the five-disc set Planet Earth is an epic travelogue, focussing on different ecologies and the unique animals that inhabit them. Once again, Sir David Attenborough provides the narration, as the cameras fly across the surface of the earth, zooming in to give us a bug's eye view one minute, zooming ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: David Attenborough
Directed By: Alastair Fothergill

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Jack White
Directed By: Martin Scorsese

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video

Native New Yorkers know to expect the unexpected, but who among them could've predicted that a man would stroll between the towers of the World Trade Center? French high-wire walker Philippe Petit did just that on August 7th, 1974. Petit’s success may come as a foregone conclusion, but British filmmaker James Marsh’s pulse-pounding documentary still plays more like a thriller than a ...

Manufacturer: Icon Home Entertainment
Starring: Ardis Campbell, David Demato, David Frank, Aaron Haskell, Paul McGill
Directed By: James Marsh

It's hard to rain too many superlatives on The Blue Planet, surely one of the finest and most fascinating nature documentaries ever made. But nonetheless, we're going to try.Long in the making, the idea behind the show was to, using some cutting-edge technology, film previously unseen areas of the ocean, and to investigate life beneath the waves. And in doing so, it pretty much ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video

Manufacturer: 4dvd

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain
Starring: Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button

When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since ...

Manufacturer: Fremantle Home Entertainment
Starring: Laurence Olivier