
Michael Palin's newest challenge is one of the great challenges in world travel - crossing the Sahara Desert. The series rediscovers the spirit of exploration. Many of the countries Palin visits have hardly been seen on television before. There is no easy way to cross the Sahara by land and Palin encounters the same problems and difficulties faced by travellers for centuries. To help him on his way he learns from those who live on this harsh land.
Twenty years after its cancellation, the sci-fi series Galaxy Quest continues to inspire a cult following, keeping its faded stars in work with a series of convention appearances. Fans flock to meet their heroes: brave Commander Taggart, curvaceous Tawny Madison and half-reptile Dr Lazarus. But one set of fans have a more pressing agenda - Mathesar and his friends are aliens who have been monitoring Earth media and are convinced that Galaxy Quest is a documentary not fiction and want the crew to help them!
Austin Goh - Wing Chun Advanced
A complete step by step guide to training in the basic Wing Chun system. Pressure points, Chi Kung techniques, and applications of form are covered as well as break down of Bill Chee and the kicking forms fully revealed for the first time. The third part in the Wing Chun series.
Racing saga starring a macho Cruise who won't be told and pushes his souped-up stock car beyond it's limits in an important championship. It takes a near-fatal crash and an impossibly pretty young doctor to make him see that his bratty ambition could prove more dangerous than any high speed car wreck. Soon after filming, Miss Kidman became Mrs Cruise.
Definitive Ealing Studios - Vol 1
Four films from the legendary Ealing Studios. 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1942) is a period comedy set in the early twentieth century. Young Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) vows to take revenge on his family, the D'Ascoynes, when he learns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off his distant relatives (all played by Alec Guinness) one by one, but complications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson), the widow of his first victim, falls in love with him. In the classic comedy 'Passport to Pimlico' (1949), an unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico, uncovering documents which reveal that this part of London in fact belongs to Burgundy in France. An automonous state is set up in a spirit of optimism, but the petty squabbles of everyday life soon shatter the Utopian vision of a non-restrictive nation. Derek Bond stars in the title role in 'Nicholas Nickleby' (1946). Young Nicholas who is forced to become the head of the family after his father dies leaving them penniless. In desperation, he turns to his Uncle Ralph (Cedric Hardwycke) for help, but this only leads the family into even more of a mess. Wartime thriller 'Went the Day Well?' (1942) is based on a story by Graham Greene. During the Second World War, a platoon of German paratroopers infiltrate and take command of an English village disguised as British troops. The locals' attempts at resistance are hampered by a degree of collaboration with the enemy.
By day a reclusive millionaire, by night Bruce Wayne transforms into the crusading avenger Batman, protector of the innocent and righter of wrongs. Against the brooding backdrop of Gotham City, he swoops in pursuit of his arch-enemy, The Joker and his true love, Vicki Vale. Stunning visual effects and gadgetry galore won the late Anton Furst a 1990 Oscar for production design.
Like many holiday films, THIS CHRISTMAS mines the ample humor and drama of a family Christmas. Ma'Dere (Loretta Devine) is the matriarch to the large and loving Whitfield family, which consists of her three daughters--Kelli (Sharon Leal), Lisa (Regina Kin
Nancy is a divorced mother of three who is so busy raising her children that she's forgotten to take care of herself as well. With Christmas fast approaching, she decides to take her kids to the mall to meet Santa Claus, not knowing that her youngest daug
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