Selected home-video releases:

The Departed

Martin Scorsese revisits the world of contemporary crime gangs and delivers his biggest box-office hit ever, a best-picture nominee at the Academy Awards that may bring the directing Oscar that has eluded him throughout an illustrious career. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg head the terrific cast in this saga of rival moles who have infiltrated the Boston police and mob. The film comes in a single-disc DVD or a two-disc set that includes nine deleted scenes with introductions by Scorsese and a documentary that aired on Turner Classic Movies about the director. There also are featurettes about the real gangster that inspired Nicholson?s character and the influence of a notorious crime neighbourhood on Scorsese?s films. The movie also comes in a Blu-ray disc and an HD DVD release that includes the standard DVD version. Two-disc DVD set, $34.99; single-disc DVD, $28.98; HD DVD combo disc, $39.99; Blu-ray disc, $34.99. (Warner Bros.)

Also available is a boxed set with the previous DVD release ?Infernal Affairs,? the Hong Kong thriller on which ?The Departed? was based, and its two follow-ups, which make their DVD debuts, and also are available separately. DVD boxed set, $39.99; single DVDs, $24.95 each. (Genius)

Marie Antoinette

Kirsten Dunst reunites with Sofia Coppola, her director on ?The Virgin Suicides,? for a merging of 18th century costume drama with modern music and attitude to tell the story of doomed queen Marie Antoinette, whose extravagance symbolised the causes of the French Revolution. Based on Antonia Fraser?s book ?Marie Antoinette: The Journey,? the film presents Dunst?s Marie as a misunderstood youth hurled by forced marriage into a role she was not prepared to assume. The DVD has deleted scenes and a making-of featurette, plus a segment featuring Jason Schwartzman, who co-stars as Marie?s husband Louis XVI, in character offering a tour of the palace at Versailles in the vein of MTV?s stargazing show ?Cribs?. DVD, $28.95. (Sony)

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica?s 1948 classic, which received a special Academy Award before the foreign-language category had been implemented, is best known to U.S. audiences in the singular, as ?The Bicycle Thief.? The deceptively simple film follows the travails of a working stiff struggling to support his family in postwar Rome, who lands a job only to have someone steal the bicycle he desperately needs to get around in his new gig. Accompanied by his young son, the man sets out on a heartbreaking quest to retrieve his wheels. The two-disc set presents the film in a digital restoration, with subtitles and an English-dubbed version. The set also has interviews with De Sica colleagues and documentary segments on Italy?s neo-realist film movement and on De Sica?s collaborator, screenwriter Cesare Zavattini. DVD set, $39.95. (Criterion)

Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist

It?s sets such as this that make cinema fans rejoice over the efforts of the DVD masters at Criterion. The four-disc package features ?Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist,? a short documentary portrait of the singer, Hollywood star and social activist, plus the feature films ?Body and Soul,? about a hypocritical minister who schemes and betrays; ?Borderline,? chronicling the fallout of an interracial affair; ?The Emperor Jones,? adapted from Eugene O?Neill?s play about a chain-gang fugitive who becomes ruler of a tropical island; ?Sanders of the River,? the story of a British officer in Africa; the musical ?Jericho,? tracking a military deserter who joins an African tribe; ?The Proud Valley,? a coal-mining drama set in Wales; and ?Native Land,? a civil-liberties docudrama featuring narration and songs by Robeson. The set also has a 1958 radio interview with Robeson, along with essays and interviews by his admirers. DVD set, $99.95. (Criterion)

TV on DVD

?Beauty and the Beast: The First Season? ? The fantasy series that debuted in 1987 stars Linda Hamilton as a prosecutor and Ron Perlman as a man-beast living beneath New York City, the two sharing adventures and unlikely romance. The six-disc set has the first 22 episodes. DVD set, $49.99. (Paramount)

?The Hills: The Complete First Season? ? Now reality shows have their own spinoffs. ?The Hills? follows ?Laguna Beach? teenager Lauren Conrad as she and a pal try to build careers in L.A.?s fashion world. The first 10 episodes come in a three-disc set. DVD set, $39.99. (Paramount)

?All in the Family: The Complete Sixth Season? ? America?s favorite bigot Archie Bunker and his family return in a three-disc set with season six?s 24 episodes. DVD set, $29.95. (Sony)

?The Golden Girls: The Complete Seventh and Final Season? ? Beatrice Arthur and her vintage gal pals say farewell with a three-disc set containing the last 26 episodes. DVD set, $39.99. (Disney)

?Emergency! Season Three? ? The 1970s rescue drama is back for more adventures involving a team of paramedics and the staff at a hospital. Twenty-two episodes are packed in a five-disc set. DVD set, $39.98. (Universal)

?Men Behaving Badly: The Complete Series? ? Rob Schneider?s short-lived comedy, based on a British series, follows the exploits of two roommates who won?t grow up. A four-disc set has all 35 episodes, including seven that never aired. DVD set, $34.98. (Shout)

?School for Scoundrels? ? Billy Bob Thornton?s an over-the-top confidence-building guru engaged in a war of wills with a wimpy parking-meter attendant (Jon Heder of ?Napoleon Dynamite?). The movie is available in the PG-13 theatrical release or an unrated edition. DVD, $29.95. (Genius)

?Zoom? ? Tim Allen flops in this family action comedy about an ex-superhero recruited to train a batch of kids as the next generation of world saviors. The DVD includes a couple of behind-the-scenes featurettes. DVD, $26.96. (Sony)

?Infamous? ? Relegated to dud status as ?that other Truman Capote movie,? this comic drama is a worthy companion to 2005?s ?Capote,? which earned Philip Seymour Hoffman an Oscar. Toby Jones stars as Capote in his emotionally shattering journey to write the true-crime book ?In Cold Blood.? DVD, $27.98. (Warner Bros.)

?Half Nelson? ? ?Little Miss Sunshine? was the big hit from last year?s Sundance Film Festival, but this drama produced its best performance. Ryan Gosling earned an Oscar nomination as an inspiring inner-city teacher with a serious drug problem, who forges an unusual allegiance with a promising student (Shareeka Epps). DVD, $26.96. (Sony)

?The U.S. vs. John Lennon? ? The former Beatle?s turn to anti-war activism and subsequent deportation battle with the Nixon administration is chronicled in this solid documentary that featured full support from his widow, Yoko Ono. The DVD has an extra 50 minutes of footage. DVD, $27.98. (Lionsgate)