Overpar

Since this format keeps on growing with more and more new releases every week, and since I am a documentary buff, I thought I would keep a running list of Documentaries and Related Special Interest releases on the Blu-ray format. I will keep a primary list on this post, and try my best to keep it updated with new releases, news, and cover art as I hear about it, or as people post on it.

I am only going to list U.S. releases since this list is long enough already.


Blu-ray Documentary and Related Special Releases

Acadia Always (Dobbs Productions)
Africa's Elephant Kingdom (Discovery Channel)
Africa's Lost Eden (National Geographic) - 4/13/10
Africa's Outsiders (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Africa's Super Seven (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Africa: The Serengeti (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Aircraft at War: The Memphis Belle Deluxe Edition - 4/26/10
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Alps: The Climb of Your Life (IMAX)
Amazing Journeys (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Amazon (IMAX)
The Amazon: River of the Sun
America's Greatest Monuments: Washington, D.C. (Smithsonian Networks)
American Experience: Earth Days (PBS) - 4/1/10
Another Day in Paradise (PBS)
Antarctica Dreaming (HDScape)
Antarctica: An Adventure of a Different Nature (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Arctic Tale
The Arid Heart (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season V (PBS)
Atmospheres (National Geographic)
Australia: Land Beyond Time (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Baraka
Battle for the Light (Razor Digital Entertainment)
The BBC Earth Collection (Includes Planet Earth and Earth: The Biography)
The BBC High Definition Natural History Collection (Box Set, includes Galapagos, Ganges, Planet Earth and Wild China) (BBC)
Bears (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Beauty of Snakes (Animal Planet)
Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors (PBS)
Best of Discovery Channel Blu-ray: Volume 1 (Discovery Channel)
Best of Europe: France (Questar)
Best of Europe: Italy (Questar)
Best of Europe: London & Beyond (Questar)
Best of Travel: Australia & New Zealand (Questar)
Big Sur-Wild California (National Geographic) - 3/30/10
Bikini Destinations: Triple Fantasy (Magnolia)
Bikini Destinations Wildside: Austin (Discontinued)
Bikini Destinations Wildside: Daytona (Discontinued)
Blue Planet (w/ The Dream is Alive) (IMAX)
Blue Ridge Scenic Railway (Green Frog Productions)
BluScenes: The Classic Fireplace
BluScenes: Coral Reef Aquarium
BluScenes: Journey Through Space
Blu Sea Trilogy (Dolphins/The Living Sea/Coral Reef Adventure) (IMAX)
Borneo's Pygmy Elephants (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Botany of Desire (PBS)
The Buddha (PBS) - 4/20/10
Build It Bigger (Discovery Channel)
Canyonlands (National Geographic) - 4/6/10
Capitalism: A Love Story
Challenge of Change (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Chihuly in the Hotshop
China Circus: Elites (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Christmas Fireplace (Digital Environments)
Christmas Memories (Digital Environments)
Chronos (IMAX)
Coastal Dawns (BlueMarvel)
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (The Criterion Collection)
Coral Reef Adventure (IMAX)
Cosmic Voyage (IMAX)
Cozy Cracklin' Fireplace (Edi Video)
Creatures of the Thaw (Razor Digital Entertainment) - 3/9/10
The Crusades: Crescent & the Cross (History Channel)
Deadliest Catch: Season 3 (Discovery Channel)
Deep Sea (w/ Into the Deep) (IMAX)
Dinosaurs Alive! (IMAX) (Image)
Discovery Atlas: Australia Revealed (Discovery Channel)
Discovery Atlas: Brazil Revealed (Discovery Channel)
Discovery Atlas: China Revealed (Discovery Channel)
Discovery Atlas: Italy Revealed (Discovery Channel)
Discovery Atlas: Complete Series (Image Entertainment)
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Dolphins (IMAX)
Earth (Disneynature)
Earth 2100
Earth: The Biography (BBC)
Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky: The Photography of Art Wolfe
Emperor of the Seas (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Encounters at the End of the World
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Magnolia)
Epic Conditions (The Weather Channel)
Exotic Saltwater Aquarium (HDScape)
Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone (A&E)
Expedition Alaska (Discovery Channel)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Extreme (IMAX)
Eye on Extreme Monster Trucks (BlurayOnly)
Eye on Extreme Professional Bull Riding (BlurayOnly)
Fearless Planet (Discovery Channel)
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (IMAX)
Fireplace (Lichtung Media)
Fireplace: Visions of Tranquility (HDScape)
Food, Inc (Magnolia Pictures)
For All Mankind (Criterion)
Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension (PBS)
Galapagos (BBC)
Ganges (BBC)
Gettysburg: The Battle and the Address (Discovery Channel)
Glacier National Park (Image Entertainment) - 3/9/2010
Glacier National Park (Wilderness Video)
Glenn Gould: Hereafter (Ideale Audience)
Google Me
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (IMAX)
Great North (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
The Great Southwest (HDScape)
Great White Odyssey (National Geographic)
Guge: Lost Kingdom of Tibet (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (Kino)
Hawaii (HDScape)
Hawaii: An Island Symphony (Wilderness Video)
Hawaii Beaches 1: Waves (Relaxation Nature Videos)
HD Aviation: 100 Years of Flight
HD Moods: Aquarium (Topics Entertainment)
HD Moods: Beaches (Topics Entertainment)
HD Moods: Blu Ocean (Topics Entertainement)
HD Moods: Chihuly in Nature (Topics Entertainment)
HD Moods: Fire (Topics Entertainment)
HD Moods: Fireplace (Topics Entertainment)
HD Moods: Flowers (Topics Entertainment)
HD Moods: Mountains (Topics Entertainment)
HDNet World Report: Shuttle Discovery's Historic Mission (HDNet)
HDScape Sampler (HDScape)
Helvetica (Plexifilm)
Home (Fox)
Home for Christmas (First Look Studios)
Home Front
Human Body: Pushing the Limits (Discovery Channel)
Hurricane on the Bayou (IMAX)
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco (Plexifilm)
Iditarod (Discovery Channel)
In the Realm of the Red Ape (Razor Digital Entertainment)
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
Iraq in Fragments
Iron Maiden Flight 666: The Film
Island Magic (Razor Digital Entertainment)
It Might Get Loud (Sony)
Journey into Amazing Caves (IMAX)
Journey to the Edge of the Universe (National Geographic)
Keeping Score Season 2: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (PBS)
Keeping Score Season 2: Ives Holiday Symphony (PBS)
Keeping Score Season 2: Shostakovich Symphony (PBS)
A Kingdom for the Dzanga Gorillas
Kingdom of the Blue Whale (National Geographic)
Kingdoms of the Coast (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Knut & Friends (Image)
Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Shout)
Last Shangri-La (Razor Digital Entertainment) - 3/9/10
LCD/Plasma Ultimate HD Experience (Well Go USA)
LCD/Plasma Ultimate HD Experience: Africa (Well Go USA)
Life (Discovery Channel) - Pre-order
Life After People (The History Channel)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Bali (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - California Redwoods (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Costa Rica (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Fall in New England (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Flowers & Gardens (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Olympic Rainforest (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Pacific Coast (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Rocky Mountains (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Sacred Canyons of the American Southwest (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Wild Africa (1-2-3-4 GO)
Living Landscapes: Hawaii (HDEnvironments.com)
Living Landscapes: World's Most Beautiful Mountains (HDEnvironments.com)
Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - World's Most Beautiful Sunrises & Sunsets (HDEnvironments.com)
Living Landscapes: The World's Most Beautiful Places (HDEnvironments.com)
The Living Sea (IMAX)
Living Temples (Third Planet)
Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Magic of Flight (IMAX)
Man on the Moon
March of the Penguins
Marine Aquarium
Mars: The Quest for Life (Discovery Channel)
Moonshot (A&E)
Morning Light
Mother Earth Blu-ray 5-Pack (Africa: The Serengeti, Alaska: Spirit of the Wild, Antarctica: An Adventure of a Different Nature, Ocean Oasis, Australia: Land Beyond Time) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
MotionPhotos: The Olympic Peninsula Collection
Mummies: Secret of the Pharaohs (IMAX) (Image)
Mystery of the Nile (IMAX)
National Geographic Ultimate High Definition Collection
The National Parks: America's Best Idea (PBS)
Nature's Colors with the World's Greatest Music
Nature's Journey
Nature's Most Amazing Events (Warner Home Video)
Nature: Amazing Places Africa (Questar)
Nature: Amazing Places Hawaii (Questar)
Nature: American Eagle (American Eagle/The Wolf that Changed America) (PBS)
Nature: Antarctica (Under Antarctic Ice/Encountering Sea Monsters) (PBS)
Nature: Wolves (In the Valley of the Wolves/Christmas in Yellowstone) (PBS)
NFL: Road to Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers
Norfolk Southern's Dayton District (Green Frog Productions)
North America's National Parks
Objectified (Plexifilm)
Ocean Aquarium (HDScape)
Ocean HD: Relaxation on Demand
Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever (Discovery Channel)
Ocean Oasis (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Ocean Odyssey (Smithsonian)
Ocean Origins (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Ocean Voyagers (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Over Alaska (Topics Entertainment)
Over America (Topics Entertainment)
Over British Columbia (Topics Entertainment)
Over California (Topics Entertainment)
Over Ireland (Topics Entertainment)
The People's Republic of Capitalism (PBS)
Planet Earth: The Complete Series (BBC)
Planet Earth: Pole to Pole, Mountains & Deep Ocean (BBC)
Planet Earth/Earth: The Biography Collection (BBC)
Power Of An Ocean (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Puppies & Kittens
Rails to Cincinnati (Green Frog Productions)
Reef of Riches (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Relentless Enemies (National Geographic)
Rhino Rescue (National Geographic)
Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: Egypt (Topics Entertainment)
Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: India (Topics Entertainment)
Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: Moroco (Topics Entertainment)
Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: New Zealand (Topics Entertainment)
Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: Norway (Topics Entertainment)
Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: Switzerland (Topics Entertainment)
Ride Around the World (IMAX)
Riding Giants -
River of the Sun (Razor Digital Entertainment)
Rocky Mountain Steam Trains (Green Frog Productions)
Roving Mars (IMAX)
Scenic National Parks (Box set including Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite) (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: Alaska & Hawaii (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: The Best of Scenic National Parks (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: Glacier Banff & Jasper (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: Grand Canyon (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: Great Train Rides (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: Yellowstone (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: Yosemite (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: Zion & Bryce (Questar)
Scenic Walks Around the World: Grand Canyon, Alaska, Kilimanjaro, Ireland, New Zealand, Austrian Alps
Scenic Walks Around the World: Machu Picchu, Italy, France, the Great Wall of China
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (IMAX)
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure 3D (IMAX)
Secrets of the Cross (Kultar)
Seeing in the Dark (PBS)
Serenity: Southern Seas (HDScape)
Serenity Travel: Vol. 1
Shark Week: The Great Bites Collection
Sharkwater
Six Degrees Could Change the World (National Geographic)
Smart Travels: Athens and Delphi (Discontinued)
Smart Travels: Sicily (Discontinued)
Smart Travels Europe: French Riviera (Discontinued)
Smart Travels Europe: Greek Islands (Discontinued)
Solar Max (IMAX-Razor Digital Entertainment)
Space Station (IMAX)
Speed & Angels (Vivendi)
A Stained Glass Christmas with Heavenly Carols
Standard Operating Procedure
Stargaze HD: Universal Beauty (HDScape)
Steep
Step into Liquid
Stories from the Vaults (Smithsonian Productions)
The Story of India (PBS)
Street Running: In HO Scale on The City Edge Layout (Green Frog Productions)
Sunrise Earth: Alaska (Discovery Channel)
Sunrise Earth: America's Greatest Sunrises (Discovery Channel)
Sunrise Earth: American Sunrises: Vol. 1 (Discovery Channel)
Sunrise Earth: Seaside Collection (Discovery Channel)
Sunrise Earth: Sunrises of the Ancient World (Discovery Channel)
Super Speedway (IMAX)
Time Warp: Season One (Discovery Channel)
Together: The Hendrick Motorsports Story (Computer Group)
Tokyo Motor Show
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Tyson (Sony)
UFC: Best of 2008
UltraMarathon Man (ChannelSources)
The Universe: The Complete Season One (History Channel)
The Universe: The Complete Season Two (History Channel)
The Universe: The Complete Season Three (History Channel)
The Universe: The Complete Season Four (History Channel)
The Universe Megaset (Seasons 1,2,3)
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Victory at Sea Deluxe Edition (Periscope) - 4/26
Visions of the Britain & Ireland
Visions of Italy
Visions of Nature: Timescapes (Wilderness Video)
Visions of the Sea (PBS)
Visions of the Sea: Explorations (HDScape)
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea (IMAX) (Image)
Warren Miller: Children of Winter (Shout)
Warren Miller's Playground
Washington the Beautiful (Topics Entertainment)
Water Life: The Big Blue
Water Life: Planet Water
Water Life: Water's Journey
Water Life Box Set (The Big Blue / Planet Water / Water's Journey)
What Darwin Never Knew (PBS) - 3/30/10
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (Discovery Channel)
When We Left Earth: Project Mercury & Project Gemini (Discovery Channel)
When Weather Changed History (Weather Channel)
Wild Australia (Razor Digital Entertainment) - 3/2/10
Wild China (BBC)
Wild Ocean (IMAX)
Wild Pacific (BBC)
Winged Migration (Sony)
Winter Wonderland (Digital Enviroments)
Wolves (IMAX) (Razor Digital Entertainment)
The Wonder of It All
Woodstock: 3 Days Of Peace & Music (Warner)
Woodstock: 3 Days Of Peace & Music (Warner) (Amazon.com exclusive - 20 minutes of bonus performance footage.
The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs (Animal Planet)
WWII in HD
Yellowstone: Battle for Life (Warner)
Yosemite National Park (Image Entertainment) - 4/6/10
Yosemite National Park (Wilderness Video)
Yule Log: Christmas By the Fireplace

Giles

you missed (the following IMAX blurays from Image):

- Super Speedway
- The Magic of Flight
- Journey into Amazing Caves
- Amazon

does 'Winged Migration' count? Let alone 'Arctic Tale'

Wasn't 'Microcosmos' supposed to have come out by now, I thought I had read news awhile ago about this.

'Everest' is another long promised HiDef release that I hope comes out sooner than later.

Cardiac161

Thanks for this. I also love documentaries in Blu-ray but found the ones fm BBC to be the best in picture quality (I may be wrong though).

Not sure if you would want to include "Baraka" there as well. The most recent one that I just saw was the extraordinary "The Story of India".

Giles

you might to denote that the 'Blue Planet' blu-ray has a second IMAX feature: 'The Dream is Alive'

Giles

Grand Canyon: River at Risk (IMAX - Image Entertainment)
Hurricane on the Bayou (IMAX - Image Entertainment)
Stargaze HD: Universal Beauty
Mysterious Aqua - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality
Spatial Dynamics - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality
The Way to Paradise - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality
Deep Sea / Into the Deep (IMAX double feature release)
Best of Europe: France
Best of Europe: London and Beyond
Equator: Rivers of the Sun
Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance (IMAX - Razor Digital)
Earthscapes: Flowers & Gardens
Heroes of World Class
Iditarod: The Toughest Race on Earth (Discovery-Image)

Gizmo

Some Genius titles:
The Biggest and Baddest Bugs
Beauty of Snakes
Elephants.

Giles

Fireplace: Visions of Tranquility
Yule Log-Christmas By the Fireplace
HD Moods Beaches
HD Moods Aquarium
Living Landscapes HD The World's Most Beautiful Places
Visions of the Sea: Explorations
Ocean Aquarium
Exotic Saltwater Aquarium
Marine Aquarium

Giles

For All Mankind (Criterion) July 14th

Giles

I might as well quote you on some upcoming releases you've noted:

Giles

The Crusades: Crescent & the Cross (History Channel) - June 2
Life After People (History Channel) Amazon exclusive release - June 2
NFL: Road to Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers - June 2
Nature's Most Amazing Events (BBC Earth) - June 2
Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp - June 2
Koppel on Discovery: The People's Republic of Capitalism - June 2

Giles

the Wolves (Nature) disc contains two episodes:
- In the Valley of the Wolves/Christmas in Yellowstone

the Antarctica (Nature) disc contains two episodes:
- Under Antarctic Ice/Encountering Sea Monsters

Overpar

Thanks everybody! I am not including music experience Blu-rays because they fall into the category of music, I would think. Also, did not put up Dragon's Lair which is a video game. I just wanted to focus on Documentaries and related programs. As you can see, the list is huge already!

Giles

other titles:

Mars: The Quest for Life
UFC: Best of 2008
Arctic Tale


How the Earth Was Made (A&E Home Video) June 30
Visions of Italy (Acorn Media) Aug. 18
Visions of Britain & Ireland (Acorn Media) Aug 18
Man on the Moon - 40th Anniversary Edition (Timeless Media Group) Aug 25
Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone (A&E Home Video) Oct 27

Giles

you've listed some of the IMAX blurays but not all, what you missed:

Wolves
Africa the Seregeti
Australia: Land Before Time
Blue Planet (why did you delete the bonus IMAX film: The Dream is Alive?)
Chronos
Roving Mars
Sea Monsters
Super Speedway
Bears
Ocean Oasis
Extreme

~~~

There is also a bluray released from Smithsonian entitled 'Ocean Odyssey'

Overpar

Just added...

Home - 6/5
Morning Light - 6/15
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 - 7/28
Visions of the Britain & Ireland - 8/18
Visions of Italy - 8/18

Overpar

Thanks!

Overpar

Added...

HD Moods: Chihuly in Nature - 9/16
Cozy Cracklin' Fireplace - 9/1

Mike86

Wrestlemania 24 and 25 could fit into the Special Interest category.

Joe Molotov

I wouldn't mind importing this release:

Overpar

I am not including sports discs unless it is like the Road to the Super Bowl disc that I have listed, which is basically a documentary. The Wrestlemania discs are not documentary-esque. When I say special interest, I basically mean something that may not be a true documentary, but close to it. Thanks!

Giles

overpar, sorry but I think that's really not fair, if you're going to include "special interest" than I'd say the Wrestlemania discs are fair game, special interest should include those as we are also including the aquarium and firelog titles.

Giles

as I recall, I think the review I read denoted the disc as being region free.

Overpar

How the Earth Was Made - $14.99 at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/How-Earth-Was-...d=HO67D46DZ1IS

Overpar

I guess it is a matter of opinion, but I would categorize Wrestlemania discs as Sports. I know it is not really a sport, but I would put it in that category.

WMAangel

Is that Amy Winehouse BC? (Before Crack)