Joe Johnston's adventure film Hidalgo arrives on DVD with a full-frame transfer that fails to preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio. The English soundtracks are rendered in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1. French and Spanish soundtracks have been recorded as well. This THX-certified disc offers first-rate picture and sound quality. Supplemental materials include a nine-minute behind-the-scenes featurette that touches on aspects of production as well as the history of the real people and events depicted in the film. A more extensive featurette on the stallions is available for those with PCs that have DVD-ROM drives. Trailers for a handful of other releases round out the extras. This is a fine disc for what it is, but the same extras are available on a different DVD that also boasts a widescreen transfer of the film. That version is preferable to this one.

The greatest blockbuster of Hollywood's golden era has been given an epic-scale presentation on DVD for this special edition release. Gone With the Wind has been transferred to disc in its original full-frame aspect ratio of 1.33:1. The audio appears in two formats -- the original single-channel sound mix has been mastered in Dolby Digital Mono, while a new surround sound mix is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1. In addition to the original English-language soundtrack, a dubbed French track has also been included, as well as optional subtitles in English, French, and Spanish. Movie historian Rudy Behlmer provides an optional commentary track for the movie, while this set also includes two discs of supplementary materials, including a documentary on the making of the film, extensive profiles of stars Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, an interview with co-star Olivia de Havilland, biographies of the supporting cast, a look at the film's various international releases (as well as a special prologue created for overseas releases), newsreel footage from the film's premiere, trailers for the picture's various releases over the years, and a listing of the many awards won by the movie.

From its opening multi-language titles (that sure looks like Swedish) to the closing arrest of the entire Dark Ages cast by modern-day bobbies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail helped to define "irreverence" and became an instant cult classic. This time the Pythonites savage the legend of King Arthur, juxtaposing some excellently selected exterior locations with an unending stream of anachronistic one-liners, non sequiturs, and slapstick set pieces. The Knights of the Round Table set off in search of the Holy Grail on foot, as their lackeys make clippety-clop sounds with coconut shells. A plague-ridden community, ringing with the cry of "bring out your dead," offers its hale and hearty citizens to the body piles. A wedding of convenience is attacked by Arthur's minions while the pasty-faced groom continually attempts to burst into song. The good guys are nearly thwarted by the dreaded, tree-shaped "Knights Who Say Ni!" A feisty enemy warrior, bloodily shorn of his arms and legs in the thick of battle, threatens to bite off his opponent's kneecap. A French military officer shouts such taunts as "I fart in your general direction" and "I wave my private parts at your aunties." Rabbits are a particular obsession of the writers this time around, ranging from the huge Trojan Rabbit to the "killer bunny" that decapitates one of the knights. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin collaborated on the script and assumed most of the onscreen roles, while Gilliam and Jones served as co-directors.