Pearl Harbor (2001)
War, Romance, History, Action • 3h 3m
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Alec Baldwin, Ewen Bremner, William Lee Scott, Greg Zola, Jennifer Garner, Jaime King, Catherine Kellner, Sara Rue, Michael Shannon, Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, John Fujioka, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jesse James, Reiley McClendon, William Fichtner, Steve Rankin, Brian Haley, Graham Beckel, Will Bowden, Angel Sing, Rufus Dorsey, Matthew Davis, David Hornsby, Scott Wilson, Howard Mungo, Randy Oglesby, Ping Wu, Stan Cahill, Tom Everett, Tomas Arana, Beth Grant, Sung Kang, Raphael Sbarge, Marty Belafsky, Yuji Okumoto, Josh Green, Ian Bohen, Michael Milhoan, Peter Firth, Marco Gould, Andrew Bryniarski, Nicholas Downs, Tim Choate, John Diehl, Joseph Patrick Kelly, Ron Harper, Ted McGinley, Madison Mason, Kim Coates, Glenn Morshower, Paul Francis, Scott Wiper, Eric Christian Olsen, Rod Biermann, Noriaki Kamata, Garret Sato, Eiji Inoue, Precious Chong, Jeff Wadlow, Will Gill Jr., Seth Sakai, Curtis Andersen, Blaine Pate, John Pyper-Ferguson, Michael Shamus Wiles, Toru Tanaka Jr., Sean Gunn, Josh Ackerman, Matt Casper, David Kaufman, Lindsey Ginter, Guy Torry, Leland Orser, Peter James Smith, Pat Healy, Thomas Wilson Brown, Chad Morgan, James Saito, Tak Kubota, Robert Jayne, Vic Chao, Frederick Koehler, Ben Easter, Cory Tucker, Abe Sylvia, Jason Liggett, Bret Roberts, Sean Faris, Nicholas Farrell, Tony Curran, Daniel Mays, Toshi Toda, Jaymee Ong, Lisa Ross, Max Thayer, Camille Carida, Winston Churchill, Tanya Dempsey, Adolf Hitler, Frieda Jane, Kathleen Mullan, Lin Oeding, Barbara Scolaro, Melissa Anne Young, Scott Levy, J Michael Briggs
About the film
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Director: George Lucas
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
OG: "4K77" or "D+77" on high seas.
Special Edition: "4K97_IV" or "D+97_IV" on high seas.
2027 Original Trilogy restoration/50th anniversary rerelease clips leaked plus release confirmed
OG: LaserDisc audio is the best option for the Dolby Stereo mixes (and usually included in fan restorations). There are 16mm/TV rips of the mono mixes.
Special Edition: Cinema DTS or 1997 LaserDisc for the Special Edition.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Video format: HD Streaming
HD Streaming with OAR
Director: Michael Bay
Video format: HD Streaming
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
4K possibly teased?
Sources: fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · originaltrilogy.com (opens in a new tab)
2017 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray and subsequent 4K Blu-rays are notorius for being heavily denoised and smoothened. Alternatively, 35mm scans for the theatrical cut is also available.
For the Ultimate Edition with the T-1000 searching John's room and the happy future ending, the 2009 Skynet Blu-ray, which is the older pre-2017 transfer, but has DNR.
Directors: Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield & Wilfred Jackson & Ben Sharpsteen & James Algar & T. Hee & Hamilton Luske & Samuel Armstrong & Jim Handley & Norman Ferguson & David Hand & Ford Beebe Jr.
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
1991 CAV LaserDisc includes an approximation of the original Fantasound mix in Dolby Surround using the surviving magnetic mixdown, using Stokowski's original mixing notes as a reference. Original aggressive pans and dynamic range are left in tact.
The 2000 DVD uses this same mix in discrete 5.0, but with some unnecessary dynamic range compression + a redub of all Deems Taylor audio with Corey Burton.
The 7.1 mix on the 2010 Blu-ray sounds poor, having been hit with excessive noise reduction, dynamic range compression, original aggressive pans no longer in tact, and the channel usage no longer resembles Stokowski's original intended sound design.
Director: James Cameron
2013 MGM Blu-ray, or 4K Blu-ray if you MUST have the mono mix, 1997 Image DVD/2001 MGM DVD for a purist version with original colors and the international mono mix
Sources: vimeo.com (opens in a new tab) · facebook.com (opens in a new tab)
2013 MGM Blu-ray for non AI transfer, 1997 Image DVD/2001 MGM DVD for a purist version with original colors and the international mono mix
1991 Image Entertainment LaserDisc for the US mono mix, 2001 MGM DVD for the International mono mix
Comparison between the US and International mixes: https://vimeo.com/246332731
The 4K Blu-Ray and the 2001 MGM DVD have exclusive extras.
Director: Peter Faiman
Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD
International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray
Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut
Australia Cut: Laserdisc
The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).
Director: George Cukor
Director: Joel Schumacher
Video format: HD Streaming
Director: Michael Apted
Video format: HD Streaming
Original AR: Paramount 4K Blu-ray
IMAX AR: Paramount 3D Blu-ray
Director: Michael Bay
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
(A 4K version was possibly restored in 2025)
Alleycat's extended restoration better
Sources: tfwiki.net (opens in a new tab)
Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Alternate version: iTunes stream
Target Exclusive Blu-ray has exclusive extras
The film has several changes internationally and on digital platforms: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_The_Last_Knight_(film)#Other_editions
Hound's crosses were red on the theatrical cut, but blue on home video and digital platforms.
Director: Michael Bay
Director: Michael Bay
Theatrical Cut: Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Directors: David Hand & Ben Sharpsteen & William Cottrell & Larry Morey & Perce Pearce & Wilfred Jackson
Mono track is on the included Blu-ray; 4K Blu-ray missing original mono. LaserDisc probably better
Director: Mike Judge
Video format: 4K Streaming
2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray
Japan Studio Ghibli 4K Blu-ray announced for a November 25, 2026 release
Japanese audio: 2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray/US GKIDS Blu-ray
English dub (Disney): 1998 US Disney VHS has better sounding vocals despite altered music and sound effects, the US Disney LaserDisc has limited audio, and 2003 DVD is a fake 5.1 upmix
Releases from 2010 onward have the original music and sound effects, but distorted vocals
English dub (Streamline): 1996 Japan remastered LaserDisc, available in Ghibli Ga Ippai Collection boxset
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
BD LPCM 5.1
The DTS-HD on the UHD has been dynamically compressed, has had its center channel boosted, and surrounds lowered (typical modern nearfield mix for soundbars). Very different from the BD and DVD tracks. The BD LPCM is basically just a lossless version of the DTS and AC3 from the original DVD (the AC3 actually being the superior mix on that particular release).
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Chris Columbus
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Disney 4K Blu-ray has encoding issues with bitrates dipping into 40mbps, and Kaleidescape has better encoding than Disney see caps
Old Fox Blu-ray master is stretched and sharpened
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray or US Disney Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · lddb.com (opens in a new tab)
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray
Comparisons: https://slow.pics/c/6JWnlfit
All sources are within margin of error. Comparisons: Japanese, English
Alternate Streamline English dub is available only on 1994 Fox LD.
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Video format: 4K Streaming
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