The Best Music DVDs 2024

1. Live in Japan [DVD]

This release collects early episodes from the British espionage program Special Branch.

2. Something Grand [DVD]

This high flying release from the classic superhero series Super Friends includes 24 episodes of the show, following the likes of Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, and Aquaman, as they do battle with villains like Mr. Mxyzptlk, Bizarro, The Riddler, and more.

3. Marvelous Day [DVD]

Realistic, build-and-display recreation of one of the most iconic spaceships from the Marvel Avengers movies.

This creepy release from the sci-fi procedural drama series Fringe includes all 100 episodes of the show, following the story of a Joint Federal Task Force created to investigate the paranormal and unexplained, a team run by a group of slightly eccentric scientists and detectives.

4. Rare Performances 1963-1981 [DVD]

Megaproducer Dick Wolf's second Law & Order spinoff, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, debuted in late September 2001 to spectacular ratings, and like its parent series, ran for years thereafter. The program follows the doings of the "Major Case Squad," a cadre of detectives employed for a division of the New York Police Department who spend their time honing in exclusively on high-profile cases (usually homicide cases) involving noted public figures such as government officials, financial wheeler-dealers and celebrities in the art world. This particular set features all 22 episodes from Season Five (2005-6), with regular cast members including Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Courtney B. Vance and Annabella Sciorra, and guest stars including Whoopi Goldberg and Malcolm McDowell.

5. Words and Music [DVD] [1948]

Clear - 8 CD/DVD

Create instant atmosphere anytime and anyplace with this release featuring a video fireplace so realistic that the heat almost radiates from the screen. Nothing relaxes quite like gazing into the fireplace and flames dance over the burning wood, and in this release viewers have the option of viewing the fire with either natural sound or soothing piano melodies.

6. Music DVD Collection (DVD), American Gramaphone, Special Interests

Starring Mannheim Steamroller.

Music DVD Collection Special Interests American Gramaphone Not Rated

7. Tough It Out [DVD]

This animated adventure for kids from the popular How to Train Your Dragon series includes episodes 12-21 of the show, following the high flying story of Hiccup, Toothless, and the rest of the gang as they dip and dive through four episodes worth of fantastical fun.

8. Smart Travels Europe: Four Great Cities II/Europe Just For Fun/A Music Lover's Europe [DVD]

Plays MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, and DSD files that have been recorded onto DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW or CD-R/-RW discs; USB input for hi-res audio up to PCM/DXD 384kHz/32 bits and DSD11.2MHz; Marantz Musical Mastering technology; HDAM-SA2 headphone amplifier; nickel-plated copper output terminals

This collection of classic country, jazz, and blues performances from the 1920s and '30s has been given a respectful presentation on DVD. The material on Times Ain't Like They Used to Be has been transferred to disc in the original full-frame aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and the audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Mono. The songs are performed in English with no multiple-language options or bonus materials included.

9. Let's Spend the Night Together [DVD]

10. Music Box [DVD] [1989]

Clear - 8 CD/DVD

Please don't rent Costa-Gavras' 1989 The Music Box under the impression that you're going to see the 1932 Laurel and Hardy 3-reeler of the same name. Do rent the Costa-Gavras film if you're in the mood for a probing sociodomestic drama containing one of Jessica Lange's best-ever performances. Lange plays an attorney whose affable Hungarian-immigrant father Armin Mueller-Stahl is, rather surprisingly, arrested. He is threatened with deportation for lying about his activities during World War II; part of the charge is that Mueller-Stahl was a Nazi collaborationist, guilty of wartime atrocities. Absolutely convinced that her father is being railroaded by a revenge-seeking Hungarian communist government, Lange handles Mueller-Stahl's defense, expertly blowing huge holes in prosecuting attorney Frederic Forrest's case. But in doing her own research, Lange discovers that her father has spent a lifetime paying off a blackmailer. Why? In contrast to the fervency of his earlier Z, Costa-Gavras refuses to make things easy by proselytizing in The Music Box (nor does screenwriter Joe Esterhaz indulge in his usual right-between-the-eyes fervency). Everything in the film is offered on the same calm, collected level, making the ultimate horror of the story all the more effective.