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Posted: January 22nd, 2010.

DVD: HISTORY™ PRESENTS ‘CITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD’, A SPECTACULAR SERIES CHARTING THE HIDDEN PLACES THAT LIE BENEATH OUR FEET From rock-hewn tombs to nuclear bunkers, a world of marvels and mysteries await discovery underground! Underground. Home to Pagan cults and gangsters’ lairs; secret military bases and the sepulchers of kings. Venture down into the darkness to discover the mysterious places hidden below the bustling streets and soaring skyscrapers of our modern metropolises. Exploring the caves, tunnels, bunkers and dungeons that lie unseen and unsuspected beneath our feet, HISTORY™ series ‘Cities Of The Underworld’ reveals a subterranean world that provides a fascinating, and sometimes unsettling, window on the past. Join presenter Don Wildman as he embarks on an underground quest that takes him around the globe – from lost Mayan tombs to Hitler’s final holdout, from the macabre catacombs beneath chic Parisian boulevards to the lost cities that lie under London. Incredible value – two entire seasons of globetrotting underground adventure packed onto eight DVDs for only £29.99. Incredible content – 24 episodes taking viewers to locations as diverse as Count Dracula’s Bucharest, Caesar’s Rome and Stalin’s Russia. Incredible entertainment – state of the art CGI and on-location filming take you into a world of secret chambers, hidden tombs and forgotten relics. The DVD is released on February 8th, it runs for 1030 mins and retails for £29.99 on DVD, but is currently on Amazon at the link above for £17.98.

DVD: HISTORY™ PRESENTS ‘GANGLAND’, THE HIT U.S. SERIES THAT GIVES YOU THE INSIDE STORY OF AMERICA’S MOST NOTORIOUS GANGS From East Coast to West Coast; from the Bloods to the Crips – the HISTORY™ series ‘Gangland’ walks the meanest streets of America in search of the most notorious street gangs. Featuring rarely seen footage and unprecedented access to the lives of both former and current gang members and the cops charged with taking them down, the first two seasons of this groundbreaking series provide a unique insight into the criminal underworld. Over 25 episodes, ‘Gangland: The Complete Seasons One & Two’ provides an inside look at the rituals, iconography, territory, hierarchy and crimes of the gangs, creating a vast shadow economy that thrives on vice, drugs and murder. Discover Harlem’s heroin kingpins and the gangstas who rule Compton; explore the long and bloody history of the Asian Triads; venture into the worlds of the Hell’s Angels, Maniac Latin Disciples and the white supremacist Ayran Brotherhood – witness life and death in Gangland. Exciting, enthralling and informative, ‘Gangland’ has garnered an audience of over 50 million U.S. viewers, and is a top-rated series on HISTORY in the UK, attracting audience figures in excess of 1,180,000. Unbeatable value - 25 episodes across seven DVDs give viewers an all access pass to the real story behind the most feared and dangerous gangs. The DVD is released on February 15th, it runs for 627 mins and retails for £29.99 on DVD, but is currently on Amazon at the link above for £17.98.

DVD: Runaway logs; relentless weather; treacherous machinery – it’s all in a day’s work for America’s intrepid Ax Men! Get ready for more cutting edge entertainment as hit HISTORY series ‘Ax Men’ goes back to the woods for a second season of danger and daring amid the remote wilderness of northwest Oregon. The intrepid lumberjacks return bigger, badder and tougher than ever, even taking to the skies and venturing beneath the waves in a race to fell the most timber during logging's most dangerous season. The exciting 13 episode series follows two leading teams from last season along with three new companies – fiery father-son team Rygaard Logging, helicopter specialists R&R Conner Aviation and S&S Aqua Logging, a team of divers who fish for timber in some of the Pacific Northwest’s most deadly waters. Join the larger-than-life loggers as they do daily battle against extreme terrain, harsh elements and mechanical failure in a bid to conquer America’s final frontier. From the producers of ‘Ice Road Truckers’, the highest rated series on HISTORY, the critically-acclaimed ‘Ax Men’ returns for a second season of white-knuckle wilderness adventures – and this time the competition between the rival logging crews is hotter than ever. 13 all-new episodes on three DVDs: ‘Road To Season 2’; ‘Ax Men Cometh’; ‘Initiation Day’; ‘By Air, Land and Sea’; ‘Moby Dick Strikes’; ‘The King Crumbles’; ‘Lost in the Fog’; ‘One Weak Link’; ‘The Ax Falls’; ‘Fresh Meat’; ‘Clash of the Titans’; ‘The Reckoning, Part 1’ and ‘The Reckoning, Part 2’. Box set also includes four special features: ‘Ax Men Equipment’, ‘Training the Newbies’, ‘Problems on the Mountain’ and ‘Additional Footage’. The DVD is released on February 22nd, it runs for 570 mins and retails for £19.99 on DVD, but is currently on Amazon at the link above for £11.98.

Blu-ray: DVD: Today, there are no tailbacks on the motorway. There are no long queues at the supermarket checkout. No-one cares how the pound is holding up against the dollar. Welcome To Earth, Population Zero. What would happen if every human being on Earth disappeared? How long would it be before Nature reclaimed our cities? Which animals would graze beneath our crumbling monuments; which species would flourish amid our concrete jungles? Discover what happens to our planet in the hours, days, months and years after humanity ceases to exist in ‘Life After People: The Complete Series One’, the spectacular new ten-part series from HISTORY. Each graphically stunning episode is a feast for the imagination, employing cutting-edge cinematic CGI to reveal in scientific detail the fate of the world that we leave behind us, from the millions of animals that supply our food to our treasured national monuments. Shot on-location around the globe, ‘Life After People’ features stunning, state-of-the-art CGI graphics, movie-quality visual effects and interviews with leading experts to show the future of the Earth once humans vanish. All 10 episodes on DVD for the first time: ‘The Bodies Left Behind’; ‘Outbreak’; ‘The Capital Threat’; ‘Heavy Metal’; ‘The Invaders’; ‘Bound And Buried’; ‘Sin City Meltdown’; ‘Armed And Defenseless’; ‘The Road To Nowhere’ and ‘Waters Of Death’. The Blu-ray is released on February 22nd, it runs for 100 mins and costs £12.59 from Amazon (retails for £17.99), and a DVD costs £11.98 from Amazon (retails for £19.99),

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