DVD
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Films where DVD is in a pick or an upcoming release.
1923 version: Image Entertainment DVD. 1976 version: Criterion Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
1923 version: Image Entertainment DVD 1976 version: Criterion Blu-ray
Director: Frank Lloyd
Sources: en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
Unofficial DVD
Unofficial DVD ripped from VHS
According to Wikipedia, The George Eastman Museum retains a print of the film which is incomplete, comprising the first seven reels, but not the eighth. In 2010, it undertook restoration of the 35mm print, funded by The National Film Preservation Fund. The Gosfilmofond Russian State Archive also holds an incomplete copy, consisting of all reels with the exception of Reel 2. The New York Public Library has a 16mm print available in three film reels. No complete version of the film is currently commercially available.
Director: Clarence Brown
AlphaVideo DVD
Given the DVD is released the same year the film is restored, it's likely the same "digitally scanned in 4K from color-tinted 16mm prints derived from the original 35mm camera negative" by UCLA and The Packard Humanities Institute
Director: G.W. Pabst
Germany Filmmuseum PAL DVD
Sources: edition-filmmuseum.com (opens in a new tab)
Germany Filmmuseum PAL DVD https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/info/p81_Die-freudlose-Gasse.html
Germany Filmmuseum PAL DVD https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/info/p81_Die-freudlose-Gasse.html has the most complete version of 151 minutes in its sixth 2020 edition of the DVD.
Although MoMA is also going to show a "2025 restoration" also from Filmmuseum so hopefully a newer home release is going to be soon.
BFI Blu-ray or OOP fixed Image Entertainment Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
1925 silent version: BFI Blu-ray for HD reconstruction (complete 1925 print is lost)
1929 silent version: OOP fixed Image Entertainment Blu-ray
1930 sound version: 2003 Image Entertainment DVD (excellent transfer, but severely compromised by indiscriminate over-use of the restoration process)
Director: Louis J. Gasnier
Kino Lorber DVD
Kino Lorber DVD is prepared from the sole surviving 35mm nitrate print with UCLA
Director: Frank O'Connor
Grapevine OOP DVD or AlphaVideo DVD
UCLA has the complete 16mm safety print but no new restoration available yet
Warner Bros DVD
While it is included in Warner Bros 50th Anniversary Blu-ray it's still the same DVD version
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray doesn't include this as an extra any more
Director: Fritz Lang
1984 Giorgio Moroder restoration: MoC Blu-ray or Kino Lorber Blu-ray
2001 Murnau restoration: MoC 2-disc DVD set
2001 Murnau restoration: MoC 2-disc DVD set > Kino Lorber 1-disc Restored Authorized Edition DVD
2010 Murnau complete restoration: MoC Blu-ray > Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Director: Frank Urson
Older Restoration: Flicker Alley Blu-ray
2026 Restoration: YouTube 4K Streaming
Older Restoration: Lobster Films DVD
2026 Restoration: YouTube 4K Streaming
Older Restoration: Lobster Films DVD > Flicker Alley Blu-ray (Flicker Alley Blu-ray/DVD has every 25th PAL frame deleted)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
1928 version: Image Entertainment DVD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
1969 version: Criterion Blu-ray > UK Artificial Eye Blu-ray, see DVDBeaver caps.
Japan Kadokawa Blu-ray is the same as AE BD and inferior to Criterion too
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