List of HBO video releases
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HBO Home Video has released several hundred titles to home video
Home video
Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or rented/hired for home cinema entertainment. The term originates from the VHS/Betamax era but has carried over into current optical disc formats like DVD and Blu-ray Disc and, to a lesser extent, into methods of digital...

 since 1978, as well as direct-to-video
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...

 features. They have been released on VHS
VHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....

, Beta
Betamax
Betamax was a consumer-level analog videocassette magnetic tape recording format developed by Sony, released on May 10, 1975. The cassettes contain -wide videotape in a design similar to the earlier, professional wide, U-matic format...

, Laserdisc
Laserdisc
LaserDisc was a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in North America in 1978, the technology was previously referred to interally as Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Optical...

, CED Videodisc, CD Video
CD Video
CD Video was a format introduced in 1987 that combined the technologies of compact disc and laserdisc. CD-V discs were the same size as a standard 12 cm audio CD, and contained up to 20 minutes worth of audio information that could be played on any audio CD player...

, DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

, Universal Media Disc
Universal Media Disc
The Universal Media Disc is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on their PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia platform...

 (UMD), and Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...

. These are most of the notable releases that HBO put out on home video.

As Thorn EMI Video

  • Death on the Nile (November 1979) TVA 1035
  • The Cruel Sea
    The Cruel Sea (film)
    The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British film from Ealing Studios starring Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden, with Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister...

     (October 1980) TVE 1039
  • The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...

     (June 1981) TVE 1049
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey....

     (January 1, 1982)
  • The Tubes Video
    The Tubes
    The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope". During its first fifteen years or so, the band's live performances combined quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism, and politics...

     (January 1, 1982)
  • The Man in the White Suit
    The Man in the White Suit
    The Man In The White Suit is a 1951 satirical comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It starred Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, and Cecil Parker, and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. It followed a common Ealing Studios theme of the "common man" against the Establishment...

     (January 1, 1982) TVC 1103
  • The Servant (January 1, 1982) TVC 1105
  • The Return
    The Return
    -Books:*The Return , the forty-eighth book in the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate*The Return , a 2007 novel by Håkan Nesser, first published in Sweden in 1995*The Return , a 1997 novel by William Shatner...

    (January 1, 1982) TVC 1119
  • Evil Under The Sun
    Evil Under the Sun
    Evil Under the Sun is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1941 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October of the same year...

      (March 1982)
  • Lady Grey
    Lady Grey
    Lady Grey may refer to:*Lady Grey , a blend of tea by Twinings*Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, a rural village in the Eastern Cape in South Africa*Lady Grey Elementary School, a school in British Columbia*Lady Grey, 1980 movie starring Ginger Alden...

    (1982) TVC 2545
  • First Blood
    First Blood
    First Blood is a 1982 action thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film stars Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam War veteran, with Sheriff Will Teasle as his nemesis and Colonel Samuel Trautman as his former commander and only ally...

     (March 1983) TVA 1573
  • Frances
    Frances
    Frances is a 1982 American drama film starring Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, and Sam Shepard. When it was released this film was advertised as a purportedly true account of actress Frances Farmer's life but the script was largely fictional and sensationalized...

     (September 1983)
  • Messiah
    Messiah
    A messiah is a redeemer figure expected or foretold in one form or another by a religion. Slightly more widely, a messiah is any redeemer figure. Messianic beliefs or theories generally relate to eschatological improvement of the state of humanity or the world, in other words the World to...

     (1983) TVE 2792
  • Stunts
    Stunts (film)
    -Plot:After a stuntman dies his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.-Cast:* Robert Forster as Glen Wilson* Fiona Lewis as B.J. Parswell* Ray Sharkey as Paul Salerno* Joanna Cassidy as Patti Johnson* Bruce Glover as Chuck Johnson...

     (1983) TVB 1639
  • Cross Creek
    Cross Creek (film)
    Cross Creek is a 1983 film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based, in part, on Rawlings' 1942 memoir, Cross Creek.-Plot:...

     (January 1984)
  • Tender Mercies
    Tender Mercies
    Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas...

     (March 1984) TVA 1640
  • Bad Boys
    Bad Boys (1983 film)
    Bad Boys is a 1983 American crime drama film primarily set in a juvenile detention center, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, and Ally Sheedy in her film debut. The film is directed by Rick Rosenthal. The original music score was composed by Bill Conti....

     (April 1984)
  • The Osterman Weekend
    The Osterman Weekend
    The Osterman Weekend is a thriller novel by Robert Ludlum. First published in 1972, it was the author's second book.-Plot introduction:John Tanner, the host of an investigative news show, is convinced by a CIA agent that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a...

     (May 1984)
  • The Dark Crystal
    The Dark Crystal
    The Dark Crystal is a 1982 British-American fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Although marketed as a family film, it was notably darker than previous material created by them. The animatronics used in the film were considered groundbreaking. The primary concept artist was the...

     (May 1984)
  • Kate Bush Live (May 1984) TVD 1952
  • Raquel, Total Beauty and Fitness (1984) TVE 2651
  • Angel
    Angel (1984 film)
    Angel is a 1984 film directed by Robert Vincent O'Neill, and written by O'Neill with Joseph Michael Cala. It was released by New World Pictures.-Plot:...

     (August 1984)
  • A Day of Judgement (August 1984)
  • The Philadelphia Experiment (February 1985)
  • All of Me (April 1985) TVA 2715
  • Dreamscape
    Dreamscape (film)
    Dreamscape is a 1984 science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing...

     (April 1985) TVA 2722
  • They're Playing with Fire (April 1985) TVB 2725
  • Flashpoint
    Flashpoint (film)
    Flashpoint is a film starring Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams. Rip Torn, Jean Smart, Kurtwood Smith, and Tess Harper also co-star. The movie was directed by William Tannen and based on a novel by George La Fountaine...

     (April 1985) TVA 2880
  • The Terminator
    The Terminator
    The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los...

     (June 1985) TVA 2535

As Thorn EMI HBO Video

  • Amadeus
    Amadeus
    Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...

     (June 1985)
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II
    Rambo: First Blood Part II
    Rambo: First Blood Part II is a 1985 action film. A sequel to 1982's First Blood, it is the second installment in the Rambo series starring Sylvester Stallone, who reprises his role as Vietnam veteran John Rambo...

     (December 1985)
  • Code of Silence (December 1985)
  • Act of Vengeance (April 1986) TVC 3512
  • Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...

     (April 1986)
  • Maxie (April 1986)
  • Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
    Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
    Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, also released as Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous, is a 1985 American film. The action–adventure-thriller film featured Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley and Kate Mulgrew, as well as many guest roles...

     (May 1986)
  • Plenty
    Plenty (film)
    Plenty is a 1985 British drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Meryl Streep . It was adapted from David Hare's play of the same name.-Plot:...

     (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock
    Fraggle Rock
    Fraggle Rock is a children's live action puppet television program series created by Jim Henson. The central characters were a set of "Muppet" creatures called Fraggles. The show ran from January 10, 1983, to March 30, 1987, on CBC Television in Canada, ITV in the UK, HBO in the United States,...

     Coming Attractions Trailer (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 1: Beginnings (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 2: Scared Silly (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 3: The Minstrels (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 4: Boober's Quiet Day (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 5: The Preachifacation of Convincing John (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 6: Gobo's School for Explorers (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 7: A Friend In Need (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 8: The Great Radish Caper (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 9: Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 10: Born to Wander (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 11: Red's Club (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 12: All Work and All Play (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 13: Marooned (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 14: Wembley and the Gorgs (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 15: Red Handed and the Invisible Thief (May 1986)
  • Fraggle Rock Volume 16: Wembley's Egg (May 1986)

As HBO Cannon Video

  • Head Office
    Head Office
    Head Office is a 1985 American comedy film, produced by HBO Pictures in association with Silver Screen Partners. It stars Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Jane Seymour, Richard Masur, Michael O'Donoghue, Ron Frazier, Merritt Butrick and was directed and written by Ken...

    (June 1986)
  • F/X (June 1986)
  • Absolute Beginners: The Movie (July 1986)
  • The Manhattan Project (July 1986)
  • Opposing Force
    Opposing force
    An opposing force or enemy force is a military unit tasked with representing an enemy, usually for training purposes in war game scenarios...

    (August 1986)
  • Nothing in Common
    Nothing in Common
    Nothing in Common is a 1986 comedy-drama film, directed by Garry Marshall. It stars Tom Hanks and, in his last movie role, Jackie Gleason. The film proved to be Gleason's final film role, as he was suffering from colon cancer, liver cancer, and thrombosed hemorrhoids during production.The film,...

    (October 14, 1986)
  • Touch n Go (November 1986)
  • Mona Lisa
    Mona Lisa (film)
    Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan. It was produced by George Harrison's HandMade Films...

    (November 1986)
  • Highlander
    Highlander (film)
    Highlander is a 1986 fantasy action film directed by Russell Mulcahy and based on a story by Gregory Widen. It stars Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and Roxanne Hart. The film depicts the climax of an ages-old battle between immortal warriors, depicted through interwoven past and...

    (November 1986)
  • All of Me (December 23, 1986)
  • First Blood
    First Blood
    First Blood is a 1982 action thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film stars Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam War veteran, with Sheriff Will Teasle as his nemesis and Colonel Samuel Trautman as his former commander and only ally...

    (December 23, 1986)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey....

    (December 23, 1986)
  • The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...

    (December 23, 1986)
  • Death on the Nile
    Death on the Nile (1978 film)
    Death on the Nile is a 1978 film based on the Agatha Christie mystery novel Death on the Nile, directed by John Guillermin. The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot played by Peter Ustinov plus an all-star cast. It takes place in Egypt, mostly on the Nile River...

    (December 23, 1986)

As HBO Video

  • Three Amigos (August 1987)
  • Making Mr. Right
    Making Mr. Right
    Making Mr. Right is a science fiction/comedy film, directed by Susan Seidelman and starring John Malkovich as Jeff Peters/Ulysses and Ann Magnuson as Frankie Stone.This film is primarily about an android and a woman's misadventures.-Plot:...

     (October 1987)
  • The Terminator
    The Terminator
    The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los...

     (April 1988)
  • Dreamscape
    Dreamscape (film)
    Dreamscape is a 1984 science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing...

     (April 1988)
  • First Blood
    First Blood
    First Blood is a 1982 action thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film stars Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam War veteran, with Sheriff Will Teasle as his nemesis and Colonel Samuel Trautman as his former commander and only ally...

     (April 1988)
  • The Osterman Weekend
    The Osterman Weekend
    The Osterman Weekend is a thriller novel by Robert Ludlum. First published in 1972, it was the author's second book.-Plot introduction:John Tanner, the host of an investigative news show, is convinced by a CIA agent that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a...

     (April 1988)
  • Flashpoint
    Flashpoint (film)
    Flashpoint is a film starring Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams. Rip Torn, Jean Smart, Kurtwood Smith, and Tess Harper also co-star. The movie was directed by William Tannen and based on a novel by George La Fountaine...

     (April 1988)
  • Cross Creek
    Cross Creek (film)
    Cross Creek is a 1983 film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based, in part, on Rawlings' 1942 memoir, Cross Creek.-Plot:...

     (April 1988)
  • The Dark Crystal
    The Dark Crystal
    The Dark Crystal is a 1982 British-American fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Although marketed as a family film, it was notably darker than previous material created by them. The animatronics used in the film were considered groundbreaking. The primary concept artist was the...

     (April 1988)
  • Bad Boys
    Bad Boys (1983 film)
    Bad Boys is a 1983 American crime drama film primarily set in a juvenile detention center, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, and Ally Sheedy in her film debut. The film is directed by Rick Rosenthal. The original music score was composed by Bill Conti....

     (April 1988)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey....

     (April 1988)
  • Death on the Nile
    Death on the Nile (1978 film)
    Death on the Nile is a 1978 film based on the Agatha Christie mystery novel Death on the Nile, directed by John Guillermin. The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot played by Peter Ustinov plus an all-star cast. It takes place in Egypt, mostly on the Nile River...

     (April 1988)
  • Amadeus
    Amadeus
    Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...

     (April 1988)
  • Hiding Out
    Hiding Out
    Hiding Out is a 1987 movie starring Jon Cryer as a Wall Street broker "hiding out" as a high-school student as the mob tries to kill him.- Plot :...

     (July 1988)

As HBO Home Video

  • Godzilla vs. Biollante
    Godzilla vs. Biollante
    is a 1989 science fiction kaiju film written and directed by Kazuki Ōmori. It was the seventeenth film to be released in the Godzilla franchise and the second in terms of the franchise's Heisei period...

     (December 1992)
  • Against the Wall (April 1994)
  • And the Band Played On
    And the Band Played On
    And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a nonfiction book written by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts, published in 1987...

     (June 1994)
  • Shadowlands
    Shadowlands
    Shadowlands is a 1985 television film, written by William Nicholson, directed by Norman Stone and produced by David M. Thompson for BBC Wales. Its subject is the relationship between Oxford don and author, C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham....

     (July 1994)
  • The Last Outlaw
    The Last Outlaw
    The Last Outlaw is a 1919 short Western film directed by John Ford. Part of this film survives in the British Film Institute film archive and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.-Cast:* Edgar Jones* Lucille Hutton* Richard Cummings* Jack Walters...

     (August 1994)
  • Serial Mom
    Serial Mom
    Serial Mom is a 1994 American dark satire written and directed by John Waters, starring Kathleen Turner as the title character, Sam Waterston as her husband, and Ricki Lake and Matthew Lillard as her children. Despite statements to the contrary in the movie, the story is completely fictional...

     (1994)
  • The Apostate (1999)
  • Cannonball Run (2001)
  • Gepiti (2003)
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