![Review Quadrant Video / National Geographic Video - Beyond The Movie - The Lord Of The Rings [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QF6NKXWXL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2002-03-11
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.45
Review National Geographic Video - Beyond The Movie - The Lord Of The Rings [2001] / Quadrant Video:The connection between National Geographic and The Lord of the Rings may seem tentative, but the illuminating TV special Beyond the Movie proves otherwise. While incorporating cast and crew interviews and film clips from director Peter Jackson's 2001 blockbuster The Fellowship of the Ring, this hour-long documentary transcends timely opportunism to explore the myriad inspirations for JRR Tolkien's Middle-Earth fantasy classic, beginning with the influence of Tolkien's idyllic childhood in rural England, which served as the model for his threatened Hobbit paradise. Equally fascinating are the influences of Tolkien's experience in World War I and the "evil" of industrial development on his work, and more directly those of Anglo-Saxon poetry (notably Beowulf) and the mythology of the Finnish Kalevala, which formed the basis of Tolkien's elvish culture. The author's passion for nature conservancy and cultural preservation are what ultimately serve the National Geographic agenda, but eloquent testimonials by archaeologists, anthropologists, and filmmakers make this a most agreeable hour of justified propaganda. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.
Release date: 2001-09-03
Run time: 336 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.99
Review NASA - The Big Missions / DD Video:
Release date: 2002-01-21
Run time: 52 min.
Price: £12.99
Review National Geographic Video - The New Chimpanzees / Quadrant Video:
Release date: 2002-04-08
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.25
Review National Geographic Video - Wings Over The Serengeti / Quadrant Video:
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 51 min.
Price: £9.99
Review Gerald Durrell - To The Island Of The Aye-Aye / Green Umbrella Productions:
Release date: 1998-01-19
Run time: 57 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Abduction - File No. 1 / Empire Entertainment:
![Review Castle Home Video / Birds - The Ultimate Visual Guide [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4126D43ZVML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Suzanne Pleshette
- Jessica Tandy
- Veronica Cartwright
- Tippi Hedren
- Rod Taylor
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Evan Hunter
Price: £2.99
Review Birds - The Ultimate Visual Guide [2001] / Castle Home Video:Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes". From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the coastal town of Bodega Bay to hook up with a rugged fellow (Rod Taylor) she's only just met. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds, and Hitchcock's skill at staging action is brought to the fore. Beyond the superb effects, however, The Birds is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of violence, loneliness, and complacency. What really gets under your skin are not the bird skirmishes but the anxiety and the eerie quiet between attacks. The director elevated an unknown model, Tippi Hedren (mother of Melanie Griffith), to being his latest cool, blond leading lady, an experience that was not always easy on the much-pecked Ms. Hedren. Still, she returned for the next Hitchcock picture, the underrated Marnie. Treated with scant attention by serious critics in 1963, The Birds has grown into a classic and-despite the sci-fi trappings-one of Hitchcock's most serious films. [+]-Robert Horton.
Actors & Directors
- Michael Rosenfeld
- Kirk Wolfinger
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.99
Review National Geographic Video - Pearl Harbour - Legacy Of Attack / Quadrant Video:
Release date: 2002-01-21
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.95
Review National Geographic Video - Octopus / Quadrant Video:
![Review The Barefoot Bushman / Barefoot Bushman - Kissing Crocodiles [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F7GM7PFZL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2002-06-24
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £17.05
Review Barefoot Bushman - Kissing Crocodiles [1995] / The Barefoot Bushman:
Release date: 2002-05-13
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £16.90
Review National Geographic Video - Air Force One / Quadrant Video:
![Review Quadrant Video / Really Wild Animals - Dinosaurs And Other Creature Features [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517HH9M0RFL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2001-07-02
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £8.99
Review Really Wild Animals - Dinosaurs And Other Creature Features [1995] / Quadrant Video:
Release date: 1998-01-19
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.99
Review The Moon-Mars Connection / B C Video Inc:
![Review ITV DVD / Panda-A Giant Stirs [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411C7YMDRCL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1996-07-15
Run time: 52 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Panda-A Giant Stirs [1995] / ITV DVD:
Release date: 2001-09-03
Run time: 52 min.
Price: £12.99
Review National Geographic Video - Great White - Deep Trouble / National Geographic Video - Great White:
Actors & Directors
- Tim Eliott
- Pawel Achtel
- Michael Wooller
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.75
Review Aliens Of The Sea / DVD Cymru Wales Ltd:
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Release date: 1996-03-11
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.90
Review Jewels of the Caribbean Sea [1994] / Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd:
Release date: 1997-10-26
Price: £12.99
Review Ferret Keeping / Quantum Leap:
Release date: 2001-10-15
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £6.42
Review British Country Birds / Delta Visual Entertainment:
Release date: 1997-10-26
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £12.99
Review It's A Dog's Life / Global Video Marketing Ltd.:
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