The King (2019)
Drama, History, War • 2h 20m
Director: David Michôd
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Tom Glynn-Carney, Lily-Rose Depp, Thomasin McKenzie, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn, Andrew Havill, Dean-Charles Chapman, Steven Elder, Edward Ashley, Stephen Fewell, Tara Fitzgerald, Tom Fisher, Tom Lawrence, Ivan Kaye, Gábor Czap, Josef Davies, Roderick Hill, Niké Kurta, Nicholas Wittman, Philip Rosch, Lucas Hansen, Tom Lacroix, Cedric Cirotteau, Jack Bandeira, Kristóf Widder, Vincent Latorre, Bence Bakti, Bardó Fenyvesi, Henry Dent, Harry Trevaldwyn, Laurent Winkler, Jeremy Chevillotte, Thibault de Montalembert, Oscar Bennett
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 4 months ago
Overview
England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Video format: HD Streaming
HD Streaming with OAR
Director: Spike Lee
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Joel Schumacher
Video format: HD Streaming
Director: Michael Apted
Video format: HD Streaming
Video format: HD Streaming
Director: Jonathan Demme
Video format: HD Streaming
Director: Fletcher Moules
Video format: HD Streaming
Video format: HD Streaming
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Directors: Chris Appelhans & Maggie Kang
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Currently streaming on Netflix
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Kenji Iwaisawa
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Japan Pony Canyon Blu-ray for original 7.1 mix
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Currently streaming on Netflix
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
Director: Jacques Audiard
France Pathé 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Atmos audio
Director: Werner Herzog
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Video format: 4K Streaming
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Joel Coen
Director's Cut: Disappointing UK StudioCanal/US Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: LaserDisc or 2001 UK Universal DVD
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=21782879#post21782879 - comparison. StudioCanal is a massive improvement to the Criterion but still flawed in some areas (chroma noise)
Director: Liliana Cavani
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Iain Softley
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn included an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
Shout! Factory has the exclusive The Beauty of the Baud and the You Can't Stop Us All featurettes.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
Director: John Woo
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
review: Disk Kino
Both have better encoding than Disk Kino, some shots are better on Shout! Factory, others on Arrow
Shout Factory still has the best video while Arrow did a questionable regrade. Arrow definitely has less grain in most shots, has a worse encode and is cm v2.9 compared to Shout’s cm v4.0.
Shout! Factory/Arrow 4K Blu-ray has the original mono
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