Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play When Nicholas Nickleby&s father dies & leaves his family destitute his uncle the greedy moneylender Ralph Nickleby finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys Smike & they join a troop of actors Nicholas then has to protect Smike while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking advantage of his sister Kate & later his sweetheart Madeline Bray whose father is in debtor&s prison A glorious Ealing Studios adaptation of Charles Dickens& celebrated novel! Actors Cedric Hardwicke Stanley Holloway Alfred Drayton Cyril Fletcher Bernard Miles Derek Bond Sally Ann Howes Sybil Thorndike & Cathleen Nesbitt Director Alberto Cavalcanti Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1947 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Duration 1 hour & 45 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play When his father dies young Nicholas Nickleby&s family is left penniless & he his sister & his mother venture to London to seek help from their wealthy Uncle Ralph (Plummer) Unfortunately Ralph&s intentions are less than good & the family is split apart Nicholas is sent to teach at Dotheboys Hall a squalid school for orphan boys run by the cruel & abusive Wackford Squeers (Broadbent) Within the dark grim walls of Dotheboys Nicholas befriends a kind-hearted & mistreated boy named Smike (Bell) & together they run away setting off on an adventure to reunite the Nickleby family & build a new home of their own Actors Charlie Hunnam Stella Gonet Tom Courtenay Christopher Plummer Anne Hathaway Jim Broadbent Jamie Bell Juliet Stevenson Kevin Mc Kidd Nathan Lane Barry Humphries Alan Cumming & Timothy Spall Director Douglas Mc Grath Certificate PG Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; Czech
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles Croatian ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Greek ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Romanian ; Turkish Duration 2 hours & 6 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This Ealing production of Charles Dickens' novel stars Cedric Hardwicke as the eponymous hero The duplicitous scheming of an avaricious uncle robs Nicholas Nickleby of his rightful inheritance In order to care for his family Nicholas is forced to leave his schoolmaster's post & seek his fortune as a travelling entertainer Actors Cedric Hardwicke Standley Holloway Alfred Drayton Cyril Fletcher Bernard Miles Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 43
- 1331 Number of discs 1
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Lasse Hallstrom directs this romantic drama based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks While Special Forces Army Sergeant John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is home on leave he meets beautiful college student Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) & the two fall in love When the time comes for Savannah to return to college she promises to write to John during his 12-month enlistment overseas However their budding love affair is put to the test when John decides to re-enlist in the wake of the 911 attacks Safe Haven Romantic drama following the fortunes of a guarded young woman who unexpectedly finds love in a North Carolina town Katie Feldman (Julianne Hough) stands out on arrival in Southport Beautiful but highly reserved she makes it clear that she expects to have little involvement in the social life of the town & its inhabitants However an unforeseen chain of events brings Katie close to Alex (Josh Duhamel) a widower who runs a store while also attempting to bring up his young children As she inexorably falls in love with Alex & the children Katie begins to let down her guard but doing so threatens to raise the dark secret she has been protecting Will she find a way to reconcile the trauma of her past with the possibility of a brighter future? Best of Me Dawson (James Marsden) & Amanda (Michelle Monaghan) couldn t lead more different lives in a small Southern town & yet soon they are falling head over heels in love However they are soon separated by their families Twenty years later they are reunited & soon both are forced into circumstances that test their love to its limit ...

It's a dark winter's night & a scruffy black cat arrives on an old lady's doorstep Named Nicolas because he arrived at Christmas time he soon makes an impression in the neighbourhood his bedraggled looks belying his mighty skills as a mouser Soon his many exploits are greeted with grateful thanks & much amusement until one moonlit night down on the farm his life takes a very dramatic turn The setting is fifties Yorkshire & Nicholas has a story to tell & lessons to impart Inspired by a true story Nicholas teaches us about fear & loss courage & hope & the love that community spirit can bring Enhanced by beautiful black & white illustrations this story will be suitable for young & old alike ...

Track Listings Disc 1 1 Dig Lazarus Dig!!! 2 Today&s Lesson 3 Moonland 4 Night Of The Lotus Eaters 5 Albert Goes West 6 We Call Upon The Author 7 Hold On To Yourself 8 Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl) 9 Jesus Of The Moon 10 Midnight Man 11 More News From Nowhere ...

We are all fascinated by & often wary of the tiny animals that creep & crawl in our gardens or lurk in the dark corners of our homes but how much do we really know about insects & their relatives? Nick Baker's Bug Book aims to encourage our understanding of all types of bugs by providing practical information & fun activities Learn how to determine the sex of a spider how to look after ants in a home-made formicarium & even how to rear your own dragonflies Packed with details on essential equipment for bug watching & collecting informative illustrations & close-up photography this book is essential reading for budding entomologists of all ages ...

Three years after the conclusion of his trilogy On This Earth A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent&s natural world In a series of epic panoramas Brandt records the impact of man in places where animals used to roam but no longer do In each location Brandt erects a life size panel of one of his animal portrait photographs setting the panels within a world of explosive urban development factories wasteland & quarries The people within the photographs are oblivious to the presence of the panels & the animals featured in them who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape Some of the animals in the panels appear to be looking out at these destroyed landscapes with sadness as if lamenting the loss of the world they once inhabited By the end we see that it is not just the animals who are the victims in this out of control world but also the humans Inherit the Dust also

Includes:: plates of the original portraits of the animals that are featured in the life-size panels the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized There are also two essays by the artist a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa & behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt&s elaborate production process with accompanying documentary photographs

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ground-breaking uncompromising & armed with his sound boom & his trusty Nagra tape recorder Nick Broomfield has been making documentary films for over 30 years
- all with a common purpose; the relentless pursuit of truth This DVD boxset pulls together 16 of his most famous & renowned films from his early short film Proud To Be British (1973) through his early years & his first big breakthrough with the self-reflective Driving Me Crazy in 1988 The explosion of popular culture in the mid-late 90s led to his most popular films with expose looks at the likes of LA-based Madam Heidi Fleiss (1995) two of the decade&s most enduring music icons in Kurt & Courtney (1998) & an investigation into the still unsolved murders of two of the biggest superstars of rap in Biggie & Tupac (2002) Along the way Nick Broomfield chases after former British Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher in Tracking Down Maggie (1994) visits a famous S&M parlour in New York in Fetishes (1996) trains with young female US Army recruits in Soldier Girls (1981) interviews America&s female serial killer Aileen Wuornos (twice!) & finally embarks on a quest to find the real person behind the persona in his latest film Sarah Palin You Betcha! (2011) Multi-award winning & a true forerunner to the likes of Michael Moore Louis Theroux & Werner Herzog Nick Broomfield remains a genuine British filmmaking legend Titles comprise Proud To Be British (1973) Behind The Rent Strike (1974) Tattooed Tears (1978) Soldier Girls (1981) Chicken Ranch (1983) Driving Me Crazy (1988) The Leader His Driver & His Driver&s Wife (1991) Aileen The Selling Of A Serial Killer (1992) Tracking Down Maggie (1994) Heidi Fleiss Holloywood Madam (1995) Fetishes (1996) Kurt & Courtney (1998) Biggie & Tupac (2002) Aileen Life & Death Of A Serial Killer (2003) His Big White Self (2006) Sarah Palin You Betcha! (2011) Actors Nick Broomfield Margaret Thatcher Kurt Cobain Sarah Palin Aileen Wuornos Tupac Shakur Biggie Smalls & Courtney Love Director Nick Broomfield Certificate 18 years & over Year 1973
- 2011 Languages English Duration 21 hours & 29 minutes (approx)

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Nick Cardy has been doing fantastic artwork for more than sixty years from comics to newspaper strips to illustration His work on DC Comics& " Teen Titans" & his amazing comics covers are universally hailed as some of the best in the medium&s history but his Commercial Illustration work is just as highly regarded by those in the know Now this lavish full-color hardcover lets you see what goes on behind his amazing art! Nick has selected dozens of his favorite pieces from throughout his career & shows how they came to be in this remarkable art book ...