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EARTHFLIGHT
Street Date: April 8, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98 ($43.98 in Canada)
Blu-ray $39.98 ($49.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 370 mins / 2-disc set

David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) narrates this exhilarating six-part series that takes viewers over the planet’s most incredible landscapes and reveals what it’s like to fly like a bird. Filmed over four years with help from camera-carrying birds, drones, paragliders and remote-control microflight planes, Earthflight brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “birds-eye view” by combining state-of-the-art technology and sophisticated techniques to show the world from an incredible aerial perspective. Follow snow geese, bald eagles, grey cranes, condors, macaws and more as they soar across North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. Each episode explores a different continent, with birds providing a dramatic narrative of their journeys across it, while the final episode goes behind the scenes to look at how the series was made.

WINGED PLANET
Street Date: April 8, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $19.98 ($24.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 94 mins / single disc

Soar with the birds in this groundbreaking aerial adventure narrated by David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch). This feature-length experience, including some of the most thrilling footage from Earthflight and more, brings the audience a new view of the lives and travels of birds across the globe. Winged Planet uses revolutionary aerial devices and techniques to fly right alongside birds. Snow geese dash through Monument Valley and New York City, vultures soar miles above the earth then dive down to huge wildebeest herds below, scarlet macaws race at breakneck speed through the rainforest – all shot from the birds’ perspective.

THE BEAR FAMILY & ME
Street Date: April 8, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $19.98 ($24.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 177 mins / single disc

Black bears are powerful creatures, virtually impossible to get near – and scientists have rarely observed their natural behavior in the wild. In this absorbing three-part series from BBC Earth, renowned wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and pioneering biologist Dr. Lynn Rogers try to gain the trust of a wild bear family in a spectacular American wilderness. Over the course of a year, the pair follow cheeky young bear Lily, her mother June and new cubs as they emerge from hibernation in the Minnesota Northwoods. The rewards are huge as Gordon gains the trust of Lily and June and captures the emerging personalities of individual cubs to deliver captivating insight into the life of the black bear.

EXTREME BEARS
Street Date: April 8, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98 ($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 220 mins / 2-disc set

Though they may look cute and cuddly, don’t be mistaken: bears can also be absolutely brutal killers. This epic natural history triple-bill from BBC Earth reveals the many sides of this often misunderstood creature. Set against the stunning Alaskan landscape, Great Bear Stakeout provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective of a whole cast of bear characters as they face sometimes shocking life or death scenarios. Narrated by Billy Connolly (Brave, The Last Samurai), this stunning two-part series uses a stakeout team and a range of cameras, from HD to the latest in hi-tech remotes, to take viewers right into a gang of grizzlies. In Polar Bear Battlefield, hidden miniature cameras combine with satellite views and more to infiltrate the hidden worlds of the polar bear and its prey, analyzing strategies and exposing secret hunting methods and survival techniques. And finally, Bears – Spy in the Woods brings the viewer within a paw’s swipe of the giant panda, the brown bear, the polar bear and the less well-known spectacled bear by using camouflaged roving cameras, offering an intimate portrayal of these engaging creatures.

RIPPER STREET: SEASON TWO
Street Date: April 15, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $29.98 ($37.48 in Canada)
Blu-ray $34.98 ($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 485 mins + bonus material / 3-disc set (DVD)/ 2-disc set (BD)

East London. 1890. The long shadow of Jack the Ripper may be gone, but the job of protecting London’s Whitechapel district has never been harder for Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, Anna Karenina) and his loyal deputies Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn, Game of Thrones) and Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg, Elementary). Against a society in rapid decline, the men of H Division take on new crimes that threaten to disrupt the delicate peace struck at the end season one, including a new drug scourge of an imperial nature, a female gang set on vengeance against their industrial tormentors, escaped bombers, subversive cult Svengalis and a mad eugenicist that stalks the circus freak shows for prey – an investigation that brings the elusive “Elephant Man” (Joseph Drake, Doctors) to their aid. These new threats will test Reid and his allies to their very limit, all while facing corruption in their own ranks from the neighboring force of Limehouse’s K Division, and its formidable and entirely amoral leader, Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine (Joseph Mawle, Game of Thrones). The critically acclaimed BBC AMERICA series will return for a third season in 2015. Bonus Materials include “Beneath Ripper Street,” a featurette with cast and crew interviews.

DOCTOR WHO: THE WEB OF FEAR
Street Date: April 22, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $19.98 ($24.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 146 mins / single disc

This classic 1968 Doctor Who six-part adventure has been restored and digitally remastered, thanks to the discovery of a batch of missing episodes last year. Previously available exclusively on iTunes, The Web of Fear introduces the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) to UNIT and Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, played by Nicholas Courtney (who later returns as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart). The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of which are being overrun by the web and by the Great Intelligence’s robot Yeti. The Intelligence’s goal is to drain the Doctor’s mind; can the Doctor sabotage the device before the Intelligence’s plan comes to fruition?

MAY
AFTERLIFE: SEASON ONE
Street Date: May 13, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $24.98 ($30.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 282 minutes + bonus features/ 2-disc set

Psychology lecturer Robert Bridge (Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead, Love Actually) is a fierce skeptic who teaches his students to be suspicious of anyone claiming to be psychic…until he meets Alison Mundy (Lesley Sharp, Vera Drake, The Full Monty). When Alison’s readings provoke an adverse reaction in one of Robert’s own pupils, he begins to observe her with the intention of turning his study into a book. Choosing to believe that Alison is imagining her experiences, Robert finds himself caught up as Alison continuously puts herself at risk in order to comfort both the living and the dead… until she sets her sights on helping Robert come to terms with his son’s tragic death. Will Robert prove that Alison is a fraud like all the others, or will Alison prove there is more to the world than Robert ever imagined? Bonus material includes audio commentaries with cast and crew.

CALL THE MIDWIFE: SEASON THREE
Street Date: May 20, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $39.98 ($49.48 in Canada)
Blu-ray $44.98 ($55.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 555 mins + bonus material / 3-disc set (DVD)/ 2-disc set (BD)

All the young midwives and good sisters return in the new season of the BBC’s immensely absorbing and critically acclaimed drama, Call The Midwife, based on the best-selling memoirs of former nurse Jennifer Worth. The third season takes viewers to 1959, on the eve of the Swinging Sixties. With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny (Jessica Raine, An Adventure in Space and Time), Chummy (Miranda Hart, Miranda) and Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter, The Avengers) search for a new location nearby, while Jenny’s relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined. The two-disc set also includes the 2013 Christmas Special. Bonus materials include cast and crew interviews.

CHASED BY DINOSAURS
Street Date: May 20, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $19.98 ($24.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 90 mins + bonus material / single disc

This monstrous triple feature from the creators of Walking with Dinosaurs takes viewers around the world and brings the lizards of the past to life. The Giant Claw journeys back to the sand dunes of Mesozoic Mongolia and discovers the therizinosaurus, a gigantic dinosaur with enormous, 28-inch claws. Land of Giants travels to South America’s Patagonia, where dinosaurs shook the earth 100 million years ago, and presents the animal kingdom’s most awesome hunt. And finally, Allosaurus goes back 150 million years in a stunning recreation of the life of “Big Al, the dinosaur whose complete fossil skeleton was discovered in Wyoming. Bonus material includes “Big Al Uncovered,” a 30-minute look at the science behind Allosaurus.

DOCTOR WHO: THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD
Street Date: May 20, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $19.98 ($24.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 139 mins / single disc

This classic 1967 Doctor Who six-part adventure has been restored and digitally remastered, thanks to the discovery of a batch of missing episodes last year. Previously available exclusively on iTunes, The Enemy of the World features Patrick Troughton as both the Second Doctor and his antagonist (Ramon Salamander). The TARDIS lands on an Australian beach in the 21st century. But this is no seaside vacation – within minutes, the Doctor, Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Victoria (Deborah Watling) are under attack. They soon discover that the Doctor bears a startling resemblance to Leader Salamander, a would-be dictator intent on world domination. Before long, the Doctor and his companions are plunged into a dangerous game of espionage, intrigue and deceit as they face off against the enemy of the world.

DALZIEL & PASCOE: SEASON NINE
Street Date: May 20, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $34.98 ($43.98 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 468 mins / 2-disc set

The British crime solving odd couple of grumpy, straight-talking Detective Superintendant Andy Dalziel (Warren Clark, Call the Midwife, Bleak House) and his well-mannered partner Inspector Peter Pascoe (Colin Buchanan, Casualty, A Touch of Frost) return with their fiery brand of detective work. Season nine features four two-part murder mysteries that take the duo from a private zoo where they unearth a possible organ-trafficking racket, to a community hospital where patients are dying and staff are under attack. Meanwhile, crimes of passion and chance occurrences bring a past murder case back to haunt Dalziel.

WAKING THE DEAD: SEASON NINE
Street Date: May 20, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: DVD $39.98 ($49.48 in Canada)
Length: Approx. 584 mins / 3-disc set

In the knuckle-biting final episodes of cold-case detective drama Waking the Dead, Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve, Troy, She’s Out of My League) and his team tackle their most challenging and personal cases to date. A new team member, Inspector Sarah Cavendish (Eva Birthistle, Breakfast on Pluto), is foisted upon Boyd by the top brass of the Police Force. She is a brilliant counter-terrorism officer who matches Boyd in rank, but he knows she must have fallen from grace to end up with the Cold Case squad alongside him – but how? As the team picks up on Sarah’s ongoing symptoms of post-traumatic stress, she repeatedly challenges Boyd’s unorthodox take on police procedure – something, she warns, he will pay for one day…