Chaz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy are the kings of the ice and not surprisingly loath each other with a passion. When the two men are awarded joint gold at the world figure skating championships their mutual contempt comes to a head, the ugly brawl resulting in the loss of their medals and a lifetime ban from the sport. There is however one way round their problem, a loophole in the law that allows Chaz and Jimmy to skate as the first ever men's pair. Men in gaudy lycra is always going to find out more...

While the Americans were trying to reach the moon the economically and politically suffering British had found a new sort of hero, long distance yachters. The Sunday Times put up a prize for the person who could make the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat thought beyond the endurance of man or machine and so it proved for all but one of the Kiplingesque adventurers who stepped into the breech. This remarkable documentary, from the team that brought us Touching The Voi find out more...

Peter Lafleur is an easy going gym owner who's been dodging the painful truth that his business is about to go bust. White Goodman is a borderline sociopath who owns the state-of-the-art fitness palace near by. These two men have history, and due to a mixture of bravado and desperation they find themselves betting everything on which one of them can win the Dodgeball championships. A silly, silly, silly underdogs comedy heaving with the sought of "what d'you mean you don't get it?!" humour that find out more...

The trials and tribulations of small town Texas football players, their friends, family, and coaching staff.
DISC 5: I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE SEX, EXTENDED FAMILIES, CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES.

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Sylvester Stallone stars in this low-budget film whose huge success, against all odds, mirrors its own theme. Despite a few clumsy early scenes, the climatic big fight is cathartic, manipulative Hollywood at its best. Won Best Picture at 1976 Academy Awards. find out more...

Joe Simpson, the climber whose tenacious, indeed, superhuman will to survive was the subject of ‘Touching the Void' tells the story of one of mountaineering's most epic tragedies; that of Toni Kurtz, a brilliant young climber, who, along with partner Andreas Hinterstoisser and two Austrian climbers, attempted an ascent of the then unclimbed Eiger's North Face in 1936. Like ‘Touching the Void', 'The Beckoning Silence' is a haunting combination of retrospective monologue and grippingly real dramat find out more...

Hemlock is a retired assassin who now passes his days as an art collector. Enticed out of retirement by the opportunity to avenge the death of an old friend, Hemlock finds himself on a climbing expedition up the Swiss Alps, his only certainty that one of the team (apart from himself obviously) is a killer. The Eiger Sanction is an enjoyable enough action thriller, slightly dated and occasionally becalmed, but the mountaineering itself makes up for many of the lapses. find out more...

Mr Normal, nice guy Steve, decides to challenge for the highest ever score, held since 1982 by dodgy 'you wouldn't buy a second hand car off this guy' Billy, in retro arcade game Donkey Kong. Billy, with his ridiculous quotes and patriotic ties, makes a super pantomime villian and it becomes impossible not to cheer for Joe Six-Pack in this charged, highly watchable, documentary. find out more...

Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were two mates who shared the same passion, unassisted extreme climbing, and on the west face of Siula Grande, Peru, they found the ultimate test for their skill and endurance. The ascent was not without incident but it was the return to base camp that went horribly wrong, leaving one of the men facing a seemingly impossible journey to salvation. Touching the Void, a mixture of top class dramatic reconstruction and talking head documentary, is based on Joe Simpson's b find out more...