Recommended DVD Commentary Tracks

[Note that some extra featurettes duplicate information in the commentary track(s), so if you watch the featurettes first, you may feel the commentary is not as good as if it were the only thing you listened to.]

Updated 10 April 2007

• The Abyss (1989)
  • Video Subscripture Version: Pop-up captions explaining the SPFX
• Apollo 13 (1995)
  • Commentary by director Ron Howard
  • Commentary by Jim Lovell and Marilyn Lovell
• A Beautiful Mind (2002)
  • Commentary by director Ron Howard
  • Commentary by screenwriter Akiva Goldman
• Casablanca (1942)
  • Commentary by Roger Ebert
• Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Commentary by Roger Ebert
• The Civil War (1989)
  • Commentary by director Ken Burns (scene-specific)
• Contact (1997)
  • Commentary by actress Jodie Foster
  • Commentary by director Robert Zemeckis and producer Steve Starkey
• Cronos (1994)
  • Commentary by director Guillermo del Toro
• Dark City
  • Commentary by Roger Ebert
  • Commentary by director Alex Proyas, writers Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, cinematographer Dariusz Wolski and production designer Patrick Tatopoulos
• Desperado / El Mariachi
  • Commentary by director Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi)
  • Commentary by director Robert Rodriguez (Desperado)
• The Devil's Playground
  • Commentary by director
• Dogma (1999)
  • Commentary by filmmakers
• Dracula (1931)
  • Commentary by David J. Skal
• Floating Weeds (1959)
  • Commentary by Roger Ebert
• Frida (2002)
  Selected scenes commentary with composer Elliot Goldenthal
• Gamera 3 - Revenge of Iris (1999)
  • Commentary by Gamera, Soldier No. 6 (parody of commentaries and their cliches)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
  • Commentary by director Martin Scorsese
• Gettysburg (1993)
  • Commentary by filmmakers and historians James M. McPherson and Craig Symonds (selected scenes only: Side 1: 3, 9-15, 17, 24, 27-35; Side 2:, 8, 14, 18-23, 27, 29)
• Gods and Generals (2002)
  • Commentary by writer/director Ronald F. Maxwell, Col. Keith Gibson, and James L. Robertson, Jr. (selected scenes only; DVD skips to next commented section automatically)
• Godzilla 2000 (2000)
  • Commentary by U.S. release crew
• Gosford Park (2002)
  • Commentary by screenwriter Julian Fellows
• Groundhog Day (1993)
  • Commentary by director Harold Ramis
• Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
  • Commentary by director Scott Hicks
• Henry V (Criterion Collection 41) (1946)
  • Commentary by Film Historian Bruce Eder
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
  • Commentary by director Philip Kaufman
• The Lion in Winter (1968)
  • Commentary by director Franklin Scaffner
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  • Commentary by director John Frankenheimer
• The Mark of Zorro (1940)
  • Commentary by Richard Schickel
• Moulin Rouge (2001)
  • Production commentary by filmmakers
  • Writing commentary by writers Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
• Murder My Sweet (1944)
  • Commentary by Alain Silver
• The Name of the Rose (1986)
  • Commentary by director Jean-Jacques Annaud
• Nicholas Nickleby (2003)
  • Commentary by director
• A Night to Remember
  • Commentary
• The Ninth Gate (2000)
  • Commentary by Roman Polanski
• October Sky (1999)
  • Commentary by Homer Hickham, Jr.
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  • Commentary track with contributions from directors John Carpenter, John Milius, Alex Cox, film historian (& Leone biographer) Sir Chirstopher Frayling, Dr. Sheldon Hall, and comments from cast and crew members
• Pi (1998)
  • Commentary by director Darren Aronofsky
  • Commentary by the actors
• Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  • Commentary by writers Stuart Beattie, Ted Elliot & Terry Rossio and Jay Wolpert
• Pleasantville (1998)
  • Commentary by director Gary Ross
• Ran (0986)
  • Commentary by film historian Stephen Prince
• Richard III (Criterion Collection 213) (1956)
  • Commentary by playwright and stage director Russell Lees and John Wilders, former Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company
• Road to Perdition (2002)
  • Commentary by director Sam Mendes
• William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)
  • Commentary by filmmakers
• Seconds (1966)
  • Commentary by director John Frankenheimer
• Seven Days in May (1964)
  • Commentary by director John Frankenheimer
• Shatter (1974)
  • Commentary by Stuart Whitman and uncredited co-director Monte Hellman (rarely in a commentary does one hear a producer accused of murder!)
• Shattered Glass (2003)
  • Ccommentary by director Billy Ray and and former "New Republic" editor Chuck Lane
• The Sum of All Fears (2002)
  • Commentary by director Phil Alden Robinson and novelist Tom Clancy
• Targets (1968)
  • Commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
  • Commentary by author/historian Katherine Orrison
• The Thing (1982)
  • Commentary by director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell
• Thirteen Days (2001)
  • Historical Commentary--John F. Kennedy, Sergei Krushchev, Ernest R. May, Philip D. Zelikow and Pierre Salinger and historical speeches
• This Is Spinal Tap
  • Commentary by cast, done in the personae of their characters
• Three Kings (1999)
  • Commentary by director David O. Russell
• Time After Time (1979)
  • Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and Nicholas Meyer
• Titanic (1953)
  • Commentary by Richard Schickel
• Titus (2000)
  • Commentary by Julie Taymor
  • Scene-specific commentary by Anthony Hopkins and Harry J. Lennix (scenes 2,3,5,8,9,11,12,15,17,18,19,23,27,29,30,31)
• Tombstone (1993)
  • Commentary by director George Cosmatos
• Vertigo
  • Commentary by film historian
• The Wolf Man (1941)
  • Commentary by Tom Weaver