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The Criterion Collection is a video distribution company that sells "important classic and contemporary films" in "editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements." Janus Films and the Voyager Company established The Criterion Collection in 1984 as a privately held company concentrating exclusively upon the North American home video market. Between 1984 and 1998, Criterion published home video releases in Laserdisc format, pioneering now-standard home video features such as letterboxing, audio commentary tracks, and other supplemental content. In 1998 Criterion shifted from Laserdiscs into the then-fledgling DVD market. All of Criterion's Laserdisc releases have since gone out of print. Criterion was slow to expand into high-definition releases, partly due to the HD format wars between Blu-ray and HD DVD. Once Blu-ray had emerged as the industry-standard high-definition home video format, Criterion expanded into releasing Blu-ray editions of select films from its collection. The company has also expanded into online distribution, through online video on demand rental services, first in partnership with MUBI (formerly known as The Auteurs), and recently with Hulu.

Aside from the core Criterion Collection catalog, the company has also released films through its Essential Art House, Ecxxxlipse, and Merchant Ivory Collection lines, as well as a few releases outside of any product line. Many of these releases have also been collected and sold in various box sets.

The Criterion Collection

 * Floating Weeds I Floating Weeds has been released on Laserdisc and the Essential Art House series, but A Story of Floating Weeds has not.


 * Lower Depths II Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation of The Lower Depths is included in the 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa box set, but Jean Renoir's 1936 adaptation is not.


 * Bergman Island III Included as The Seventh Seal Blu-ray extra.


 * Brakhage IV The By Brakhage: An Anthology Volumes One and Two box set has only been released on Blu-ray.


 * Pina V The Pina Blu-ray release features both 2D and 3D versions.

Additional feature films
A related feature film (not a documentary related to the film's production or theme) is included as a bonus feature:


 * The Lady Vanishes 1 Crook's Tour


 * Stranger Than Paradise 2 Permanent Vacation


 * The Killing 3 Killer's Kiss


 * 12 Angry Men 4 Twelve Angry Men (1954)


 * Godzilla 5 Godzilla, King of the Monsters!


 * Certified Copy 6 The Report

April Fool’s pranks

 * On April Fool's Day 2011, spine #573, which was not yet issued, was assigned to the 1984 cult movie C.H.U.D.
 * On April Fool’s Day 2012, spine #620, which was not yet issued, was assigned to the 1990 movie Kindergarten Cop.

Essential Art House-only releases

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 * Floating Weeds 2 V Floating Weeds was released by the Criterion Collection with A Story of Floating Weeds.

Merchant Ivory Collection

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Other releases

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The Criterion Collection boxed sets

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Numbered

 * Ivan I VI Ivan the Terrible, Part I was released only in the Eisenstein: The Sound Years box set.


 * Robeson VII Borderline, Jericho, Native Land, and Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist have been released only in the Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist box set.

Essential Art House boxed sets

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 * Three Documentaries VIII Three Documentaries includes The Great Chase (1962), The Love Goddesses (1965), and Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) and was released only in the Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films box set.

Other boxed sets

 * Murderous Maids IX Murderous Maids was released only in the 10 Years of Rialto Pictures box set.


 * Madadayo X Madadayo was released only in the AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa box set.

In other media or brands

 * List of Criterion Collection Laserdisc releases
 * List of Eclipse releases