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Call The Midwife - Season 10 (DVD): Jenny Agutter, Linda Bassett, Helen George, Leonie Elliott, Laura Main, Stephen McGann,... Call The Midwife - Season 10 (DVD)
Jenny Agutter, Linda Bassett, Helen George, Leonie Elliott, Laura Main, …
R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 In Stock

The multi-award winning drama returns to BBC One for a tenth season!

It’s 1966, and it’s a testing time for the nuns and midwives. With Trixie’s help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House out of its financial quandary. Dr Turner deals with an array of difficult cases, including a former soldier involved in nuclear test explosions.

Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan experiences a crisis of faith, and Sister Frances realises she needs to be a little less spiritual if she’s to really connect with the local women. There are some interesting challenges ahead, as well as great celebrations when England wins the football World Cup.

Also includes the 2020 Christmas Special and Call The Midwife: Special Delivery 10th Anniversary Special.

Call The Midwife - Season 7 (DVD): Jenny Agutter, Linda Bassett, Helen George, Judy Parfitt Call The Midwife - Season 7 (DVD)
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R188 Discovery Miles 1 880 In Stock

The year is 1963, and the midwives find themselves tested both personally and professionally as never before. Together, they face challenging issues including leprosy, stroke and Huntingdon’s disease, all while fighting their own personal battles.

Nurse Crane finds her authority questioned from an unexpected quarter, Sister Monica Joan is forced to accept her failing faculties, and the much-loved characters are joined by West Indian midwife Lucille Anderson – a compassionate and clever nurse who brings a fresh burst of energy to life at Nonnatus House.

Includes the 2017 Christmas Special where the midwives battle snow, ice, power cuts and frozen pipes to provide patient care during the coldest winter in 300 years. Valerie helps a young couple who experience a traumatic birth and Sister Julienne tries to reunite a family.

The Crown - Season 1 (DVD): Claire Foy, John Lithgow, Matt Smith, Jeremy Northam, Vanessa Kirby The Crown - Season 1 (DVD)
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R220 R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Save R82 (37%) Ships in 10 - 20 working days

The Crown focuses on Queen Elizabeth II as a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.

The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne.... a new era is dawning.

Peter Morgan's masterfully researched scripts reveal the Queen's private journey behind the public facade with daring frankness. Prepare to be welcomed into the coveted world of power and privilege and behind locked doors in Westminster and Buckingham Palace....the leaders of an empire await.

Black Sails - Season 4 - The Final Season (DVD): Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Zach McGowan, Hannah New, Jessica Parker Kennedy Black Sails - Season 4 - The Final Season (DVD)
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R53 Discovery Miles 530 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Hundreds of British soldiers lie dead in a forest... the Royal Navy sails back to England in retreat... the West Indies are now a war zone, and the shores of New Providence Island have never been bloodier. With the help of Eleanor Guthrie, Woodes Rogers transforms Nassau into a fortress without walls, as Captain Flint amasses a fleet of unprecedented strength, hoping to strike the final blow against civilization and reshape the world forever.

Meanwhile, from within the island... an insurgency builds, fueled by the legend of its exiled leader, whose name keeps grown men awake at night... the one they call Long John Silver. But as Flint, Silver and their allies are about to learn, the closer civilization comes to defeat, the more desperately and destructively it will fight back.

Oaths will be shattered, fortunes will change hands, and amidst the chaos, only one thing remains certain: it has never been more dangerous to call oneself a pirate.

Call The Midwife - Season 6 - (plus 2016 Christmas Special) (DVD): Jenny Agutter, Linda Bassett, Helen George, Judy Parfitt Call The Midwife - Season 6 - (plus 2016 Christmas Special) (DVD)
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R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 In Stock

It is now 1962, and the Nonnatus House team are as committed to caring for the people of Poplar as always. However, the social revolution in the outside world is mirrored by change and challenge much closer to home.

As they strive to help mothers and families cope with the demands of childbearing, disability, disease and social prejudice, our beloved medics must make choices - and fight battles - of their own.

Season 6 will see them laugh together, cry together, and pull together, supporting each other as never before.

The Christmas Special will see the series transported to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Nonnatus House receives an SOS from a tiny mission hospital. Understaffed, underfunded, and with a poor water supply, struggling Hope Clinic is faced with closure. Can our much-loved medics and midwives make a difference to the people whose lives depend upon its work? Far from home and everything familiar, the team are both shaken and exhilarated by the challenges they face - and by the time the mission trip is over, some lives are permanently changed.

Victoria - Season 1 (DVD): Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes, Peter Bowles, Catherine Fleming Victoria - Season 1 (DVD)
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R55 Discovery Miles 550 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Victoria is the landmark account of the early years on the throne of one of Britain’s greatest queens.

Jenna Coleman plays Victoria, taking her first faltering steps from capricious, hormonal teenager to respected monarch. Central to the drama is the scandalous friendship between Victoria and her first Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, and the romance with her cousin Prince Albert.

Poldark - Season 2 (DVD): Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson, Heida Reed, Kyle Soller Poldark - Season 2 (DVD)
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R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Out of stock

Poldark, the drama that has become a cultural phenomenon, continues for a second series on the stunning beaches of Cornwall.

Ross Poldark returns home following his arrest in the gripping finale of season one. It's 1790 and there is riot and revolution in the air. Ross must fight for his freedom when George Warleggan tries to have him hanged as a revolutionary. While Francis and Elizabeth watch on in horror, can Demelza save Ross from himself? Crippled by debts, Ross and Francis try to heal old wounds by joining forces in a new mine, free of the Warleggans. Ross and Elizabeth are thrown together by unforeseen circumstances, and Ross risks everything in a desperate smuggling venture.

Amid catastrophic losses, significant triumphs and shattered relationships, the characters of Poldark must learn to settle their differences once and for all, but at what cost?

House Of The Dragon - Season 1 (DVD): Paddy Considine, Emma Darcy, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Rhys Ifans House Of The Dragon - Season 1 (DVD)
Paddy Considine, Emma Darcy, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Rhys Ifans
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 In Stock

Set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series finds the Targaryens ruling over the Seven Kingdoms – and on the brink of a civil war within their own house.

Prior to the birth of a son, King Viserys sent shockwaves through the kingdom and declared his daughter, Rhaenyra, his heir. Once a healthy boy entered the picture, plans were afoot to make sure she would never sit on the Iron Throne.

Now, with schemes hatched on both sides – and the kingdom in the balance – viewers will see the house that dragons built and learn how they tore it all down.

Upstairs Downstairs - Season 1 - (2010 Version) (DVD): Eileen Atkins, Jean Marsh, Ed Stoppard, Keeley Hawes Upstairs Downstairs - Season 1 - (2010 Version) (DVD)
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R88 R35 Discovery Miles 350 Save R53 (60%) Ships in 10 - 20 working days

One of the most loved television series of all time is brought back to life with a stellar cast and a story full of scandal, romance and intrigue set against a sweeping historical backdrop.

1936. The house at 165 Eaton Place has stood empty since the Bellamy family sold it six years earlier. Now the doors are finally flung open by new owners, diplomat Sir Hallam, his wife Lady Agnes, and, back from the Raj, Maud, Lady Holland, his mother. With the arrival of Agnes’s debutante sister, Lady Persie, the sumptuous home is ready to come to life.

And who better than Rose, the house’s former parlourmaid, to recruit the new staff? The new 'downstairs' family is as full of characters as its previous incarnation with the highly strung butler Mr Pritchard, cook Mrs Thackeray, chauffeur Harry Spargo and a vivacious and spirited young team.

Soon both the elegant upstairs world and the downstairs staff have built their own labyrinth of secrets, lies and scandal, and as they feel the tremors of royal and political upheaval and the ominous threat of war, the house reverberates to the familiar sounds of rumour, excitement and dread…

Black Sails - Season 2 (DVD): Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold Black Sails - Season 2 (DVD)
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R46 Discovery Miles 460 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

The Walrus crew is stranded, with an army of Spanish soldiers standing between them and the precious Urca gold. And with their crimes against their brethren no longer a secret, Flint and Silver must join forces in a desperate bid for survival.

Meanwhile, Eleanor Guthrie struggles to maintain her grip on Nassau, as a new breed of pirate arrives in the form of Ned Low, a man for whom violence isn't just a tool... it's a pastime. As blood is spilled, and tensions mount, Charles Vane must decide which he values more: Eleanor's life, or the respect of his men.

And unbeknownst to all of them, a prize of immeasurable value has already been smuggled onto the island... one whose discovery will alter the very landscape of their world, and force everyone in Nassau toward the ultimate judgment: are they men, or are they monsters?

The Darling Buds Of May - The Complete 20th Anniversary Collection (DVD, Boxed set): David Jason, Pam Ferris, Philip Franks,... The Darling Buds Of May - The Complete 20th Anniversary Collection (DVD, Boxed set)
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R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Set in quintessential 1950s England, The Darling Buds Of May is rural idyllic bliss in its full glory as we follow the exploits of the Larkin family.

Led by the loveable Pop Larkin (Sir David Jason) and Ma Larkin (Pam Ferris) family life is never short of surprises, not least when their eldest daughter Mariette (Catherine Zeta-Jones) falls for the rather haphazard tax inspector Charlie.

Life never looked anything short of perfick on Home Farm.

Contains all 11 episodes from seasons 1, 2 and 3.

Poldark - Season 1 - (2015) (DVD): Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson Poldark - Season 1 - (2015) (DVD)
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R255 R55 Discovery Miles 550 Save R200 (78%) Ships in 10 - 20 working days

It’s 1783, and Ross Poldark returns home from the American Revolutionary War to a country in the grip of recession and his beloved Cornwall is on its knees.

In his absence, his father has died, his land and mines have gone to ruin and his childhood sweetheart has become engaged to his cousin. Feeling betrayed by everything he loves, Ross has to rebuild his life, with a new business venture, making new enemies and finding a new love where he least expects it.

The dramatic and captivating landscape of the Cornish coastline is the perfect backdrop for this outstanding historical family saga.

Call The Midwife - Season  8 (DVD): Jenny Agutter, Linda Bassett, Helen George, Judy Parfitt Call The Midwife - Season 8 (DVD)
Jenny Agutter, Linda Bassett, Helen George, Judy Parfitt
R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 In Stock

Season 8 of Call The Midwife continues to explore complex medical and personal stories on the midwifery and district nursing rounds.

It is now 1964 and times are changing, from the introduction of the contraceptive pill and the availability of a new cancer-screening programme, to the building of high-rise tower blocks. The nuns and nurses continue to face a variety of challenging issues including cleft palate, sickle cell and illegal abortion.

And for one of the team, romance could be on the horizon...

Indian Summers - Season 1 (DVD): Julie Walters, Henry Lloyd Hughes, Nikesh Patel, Jemima West Indian Summers - Season 1 (DVD)
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R35 Discovery Miles 350 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

The year is 1932, the place is India, and the people are romanticised, politicised and radicalised. They are drawn together and driven apart by class, race, love and theft, and the world around them is changing.

In the small British colony of Simla, placed at the foothills of the Himalayas, the beliefs of the British Empire still remain but the young are hungry for freedom.

Indian Summers tells a sweeping saga, stories of love, secrets, promises made and broken, and tensions that simmer in the hot, feverish days and nights of India - an India populated by freedom fighters, star-crossed lovers, political spies, artists, orphans, expats, the rich and the poor.

Peaky Blinders - Season 6 - The Final Season (DVD): Cillian Murphy, Sophie Rundle, Tom Hardy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sam Claflin,... Peaky Blinders - Season 6 - The Final Season (DVD)
Cillian Murphy, Sophie Rundle, Tom Hardy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sam Claflin, …
R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 In Stock

The final season of Steven Knight’s beloved BAFTA award-winning drama based in Birmingham and set between the two world wars.

It's 1933, and the Shelby family react to the death of Polly, who was killed during the failed assassination of Oswald Mosley. Plus the end of Prohibition in America and the rise of Nazism in Germany bring new opportunities and challenges.

The Cinder Path (DVD): Catherine Zeta-Jones The Cinder Path (DVD)
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R66 Discovery Miles 660 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Charlie MacFell is a mild mannered nice chap but a born loser. After being humiliated by a brutal father, he becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage.

During the war the opportunity arrives for Charlie to prove himself as a soldier and consequentially he falls in love with his wife's younger sister.

Call The Midwife: The Collection - Season 1 / 2 / Christmas Special (DVD, Boxed set): Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Jenny Agutter Call The Midwife: The Collection - Season 1 / 2 / Christmas Special (DVD, Boxed set)
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R287 R83 Discovery Miles 830 Save R204 (71%) Ships in 10 - 20 working days

The first two series and the 2012 Christmas special of the BBC drama adapted from Jennifer Worth's memoirs about a group of midwives working in East London in the 1950s. Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) gets her first job at Nonnatus House which she soon realises is a nursing convent and not a hospital, as she had assumed. As she begins caring for patients, she gradually becomes accustomed to her new environment, making friends with fellow midwives Cynthia (Bryony Hannah), Trixie (Helen George) and the clumsy Chummy (Miranda Hart). In series two, it's 1958, and while Jenny has her hands full dealing with an abused patient, Trixie and Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris) are forced to board a Swedish cargo ship to tend to the captain's pregnant daughter. In the Christmas special, the discovery of an abandoned baby on the convent's doorstep proves to be a catalyst as the community come together to try to trace the child's mother. Elsewhere, Jenny finds herself drawn into the mystery surrounding elderly local woman Mrs Jenkins (Sheila Reid), while Chummy is determined to stage an unforgettable nativity play.

Black Sails - Season 1 (DVD): Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Hannah New Black Sails - Season 1 (DVD)
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R57 Discovery Miles 570 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

1715 - The Golden Age of Piracy. New Providence Island is a lawless territory, controlled by history's most notorious pirate captains. The most feared is Captain Flint.

As the British Navy returns to redeem their land and exterminate Flint and his crew, another side of him emerges. He allies himself with Eleanor Guthrie, daughter of the local kingpin, to hunt the ultimate prize and ensure their survival.

Many opponents stand in their way rival captains, jealous of Flint's power,Eleanor's ambitious and intrusive father, and a young sailor recently recruited onto Flint's crew, John Silver, who constantly undermines his captain's agenda.

Filmed entirely on location in Cape Town, South Africa and executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers and Armageddon).

Peaky Blinders: Season 1 - 5 (DVD, Boxed set): Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Sam Neill, Annabelle Wallis, Aidan Gillen, Sam... Peaky Blinders: Season 1 - 5 (DVD, Boxed set)
Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Sam Neill, Annabelle Wallis, Aidan Gillen, …
R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 In Stock

Thomas Shelby heads up one of Birmingham's most feared criminal organisations. But when he sees an opportunity to move up in the world, it becomes clear that his ambition knows no bounds.

With a spectacular cast, creator Steven Knight's phenomenal vision of a family’s odyssey through British society is intense, deeply moving and wildly entertaining.

The Borgias - Season 2 (DVD, Boxed set): Jeremy Irons The Borgias - Season 2 (DVD, Boxed set)
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R71 Discovery Miles 710 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

The Borgias return for more seduction, schemes, and outright villainy in all 10 riveting episodes from the second season.

Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons is back as Rodrigo Borgia, the power-hungry patriarch of the Borgia clan, who has schemed his way to the top of Roman society as Pope Alexander VI. But with absolute power comes even more powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to see him toppled.

While the Pope schemes to destroy his foes, his mistress Giulia Farnese realises her position in the bedroom is precarious at best; daughter Lucrezia seduces new suitors while caring for her illicit baby; and brothers Cesare and Juan take sibling rivalry to a whole new level of deviancy.

Be there for every stunning moment of the critically acclaimed crime drama with a royal pedigree.

Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Definitive Collection - Season 1 - 13 (DVD, Boxed set): David Suchet Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Definitive Collection - Season 1 - 13 (DVD, Boxed set)
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R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's enigmatic, eccentric and extremely intelligent detective Hercule Poirot.

From England to the Mediterranean, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, Captain Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon, Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

The Definitive Collection includes all 13 seasons, featuring 70 episodes plus bonus features.

Indian Summers - Season 2 (DVD): Julie Walters, Henry Lloyd Hughes, Nikesh Patel, Jemima West Indian Summers - Season 2 (DVD)
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R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

It is 1935. Three years have passed. And as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution.

As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. For Ralph Whelan, this year is the most pivotal of his career but with the Viceroy incumbent in his final few months he struggles to finance his career progression and continue to conceal the truth surrounding the events of 1932. Alice's husband has followed her to India but his worsening campaign of hatred against his wife sends her running into the arms of her true love. The Dalals are enjoying the new-found status that Aafrin's ascending career affords them but it will not be an easy summer and Aafrin is even more deeply involved with the violent wing of the Congress Party.

Against this backdrop, life in Simla continues, as fun and debauched as ever.

Ripper Street (DVD): Matthew MacFayden, Jerome Flynn, Amanda Hale Ripper Street (DVD)
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R35 Discovery Miles 350 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Haunted by the failure to catch Londonʼs most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division – the toughest police district in the East End.

Charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel, Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law; but always in the background lurks the fear of the Ripper.

The Ripper's Shadow is still felt in the neighbourhood by the vigilantes, the sensation-seeking newspaper hacks and the men who hunted – and failed to find – the notorious murderer. It seems that even though the notorious killer has disappeared, there are plenty more willing to stain the streets of Whitechapel with their victims’ blood...

Spartacus: Blood And Sand - Season 1 (DVD, Boxed set): Andy Whitfield, Lucy Lawless Spartacus: Blood And Sand - Season 1 (DVD, Boxed set)
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R40 Discovery Miles 400 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Betrayed by his country. Beaten into slavery. Reborn as a warrior.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand is a graphic and visceral account of Rome's most famous gladiator. When he is separated from the love of his life, Spartacus is forced into the gruesome and bloodthirsty arena, where a grisly death is primetime entertainment.

Spartacus must fight for survival, befriend his enemies and play politics in this new world of corruption, violence, sex and fame. He will be seduced by power and tormented by vengeance. But his passion will give him the strength to prevail over every obstacle, in this modern and uninhibited tale of death, honour and endurance.

Jesus of Nazareth - (1977) (DVD): Robert Powell, Michael York Jesus of Nazareth - (1977) (DVD)
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R107 Discovery Miles 1 070 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Franco Zeffirelli's compelling portrayal of the life and death of Jesus. Traced from birth, through to childhood, His baptism by John the Baptist and the miracles; culminating in His Crucifixion and Resurrection.

Four years in the making, this powerful epic has been critically acclaimed by religious leaders worldwide for its sensitivity and passion. Directed by Oscar nominee, Franco Zeffirelli and produced by Vincenzo Labella, this internationally acclaimed and award-winning screen version of the life of Jesus is a captivating production coupled with historical and religious accuracy.

Robert Powell stars as Jesus and a star-studded international cast adds depth and humanity to the roles of the saints, sinners and ordinary people who walked in the footsteps of the Lord.

Also starring: Michael York, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Valentina Cortese, James Farentino, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, Tony Lo Bianco, James Mason, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasance, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quinn, Fernando Rey, Rod Steiger, Peter Ustinov and Olivia Hussey.

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