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...

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!

Gerard Smythe’s documentary When a City Falls is a collective examination of the Canterbury earthquakes, physical and emotional damage. Smythe and his team filmed over 100 hours of footage capturing the emotion & resilience of the Christchurch community. This stunning documentary gives all New ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the remote wilderness of New Zealand, when necessity was the mother of invention, a maverick bunch of kids had a dream which they would one day share with the world. Relive the innovative journey of extreme sports pioneers in mystical worlds which have long since gone. But for one...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Exploring the world of its tiny heroes in locations that are worlds apart - the Namibian savannah, the Mongolian steppe, a Japanese megalopolis and sunny California - Babies makes a universal statement with strength and passion. Babies is a visual and sensorial experience that will reveal the most b...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

**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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Volcanoes have always both fascinated and frightened mankind. Often causing massive loss of life they've been worshipped as gods and feared as homes for the devil. They emit huge amounts of poison gas and ash yet provide some of the most fertile land on Earth. Our guides explore the world's most spe...

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...

Chasing Classic Cars is a full-throttle, high-definition 26 x 30min series that follows Wayne Carini, Ferrari expert and master restorer, as he takes us on his personal mission to uncover great cars and secret collections. During each 30-minute episode, he scours the countryside for classic auto...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

From the acclaimed producers of the Wild South series comes the 25th Anniversary Edition of Journeys in National Parks presented by Peter Hayden Made in 1987, this original television series tells the story of five of New Zealand’s great National Parks. Our National Parks contain much of the countr...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...