The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video distribution company that focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films". Criterion serves film and media scholars, cinephiles, as well as public and academic libraries. Criterion has helped to standardize characteristics of home video such as film restoration, using the Letterboxing format for widescreen films, and adding bonus features as well as scholarly essays and commentary tracks. Criterion has produced and distributed more than 1,000 special editions of its films in VHS, Betamax, LaserDisc, DVD, and Blu-ray formats and box sets. These films and their special features are also available via an online streaming service that the company operates.

The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video distribution company that focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films". Criterion serves film and media scholars, cinephiles, as well as public and academic libraries. Criterion has helped to standardize characteristics of home video such as film restoration, using the Letterboxing format for widescreen films, and adding bonus features as well as scholarly essays and commentary tracks. Criterion has produced and distributed more than 1,000 special editions of its films in VHS, Betamax, LaserDisc, DVD, and Blu-ray formats and box sets. These films and their special features are also available via an online streaming service that the company operates.