Best DVD Sets (Updated 2022)

Feel like hanging out with Friends? Any time you need some serious laughs with people that feel more like family than friends, the series that brought you 6 of television’s most popular characters of all time is ready when you are. Friends, the Complete Series Collection is one of the best DVD sets to keep on hand when you need laughs, comfort, and faux companionship or to binge-watch from start to finish over the course of weeks of your downtime. With all ten seasons included in the anniversary edition boxed set, you’ll watch an entire decade of Monica, Rachel, Ross, Phoebe, Chandler, and Joey living, learning, loving, and laughing — a lot.

Friends first hit the airwaves as part of NBC’s Thursday night “Must-See TV” lineup, comfortably sandwiched between Mad About You and Seinfeld, a setup almost guaranteeing an audience, but riddled with tremendous pressure to live up to the other hugely popular hits. More than meeting expectations, Friends went on to become inarguably one of the most popular sitcom series of all time. It also enjoyed engaging a new, younger audience when it began a period of Netflix streaming, that’s now ended.

Friends are your family when you live in the city, and when 6 young singles live across the hall from each other in Manhattan during the 1990s and early 2,000s, life is all about sharing good times and talking about loves, careers, and loyal friendships over endless cups of coffee in Central Perk.

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Whether you watched with bated breath as HBO aired each episode and discussed it around the water cooler the next morning, or you never had a chance to see the series the whole world was talking about, now is the time to get your game on. One of the best DVD sets if you want to snuggle down and binge-watch from beginning to end is Game of Thrones: The Complete Series. This boxed set includes the entire series from the jaw-dropping first episode to the controversial 8th and final season.

Whether you’re watching for the first time or re-watching before enjoying the newly released prequel series, HBO Max’s House of the Dragon, now is the time to add the epic series to your DVD library so it’s yours whenever you want to watch. The critically acclaimed series won an astonishing 59 Emmy Awards and includes a hugely talented ensemble cast with Kit Harrington as Jon Snow, Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen, Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Sophie Turner as Sansa Starke, Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister, Maisie Williams as Arya Stark, and many more.

In the mythical, medieval world of Westeros, noble families claw their way to the Iron Throne in an attempt to rule the dynasty. With swords, dragons, and sorcery as their weapons, seven kingdoms clash in a legendary battle for power, all while an endless winter looms on the horizon.

Based on the novels by George R.R. Martin, this is one of the best DVD sets to watch and re-watch any time you want to revisit the world of Westeros.

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One of the best DVD sets for classic film fans is the TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Romantic Dreams. Celebrate iconic stars like James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marlon Brando in the roles that set hearts aflutter, way back when. This set of four favorite TCM movies from 1950s’ Warner Bros productions includes East of Eden, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Rebel Without a Cause.

In what’s been called one of the most influential performances of Hollywood history, James Dean is the lonely new kid town playing off of Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood who scored two Academy Award nominations for his role in Rebel Without a Cause.

Elizabeth Taylor steams up the screen along with Paul Newman in a film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh go head-to-head when he suspects the broke Southern Belle came to New Orleans hiding a secret inheritance in A Streetcar Named Desire, a film thatwon Vivien Leigh her second Academy Award for Best Actress, while it made the previously little known actor, Marlon Brando a household Hollywood name.

In the film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, James Dean plays Cal, the son of a Salinas Valley farmer who can never quite live up to his father’s high expectations the way his pious brother can, but when Cal learns a dark secret about his mother, he turns to his brother’s girlfriend who may share the forbidden attraction.

All four of these classic movies from the 1950s set new expectations for film quality and played a part in changing Hollywood History. This is one of the best DVD sets for any movie collector.

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It’s become a favorite Holiday tradition in American homes and worldwide — pouring a glass of wine, turning on the Christmas tree lights, and curling up to watch a Hallmark Christmas movie while the kids are asleep and snow falls outside the windows. Nothing says, “Christmas is coming” more than the Hallmark Channel’s yearly tradition of beginning their Christmas movie marathons with the Annual Countdown to Christmas. That’s why the Hallmark Christmas 3-Film Collection is one of the best DVD sets whether you don’t have cable, or you want to be able to watch Christmas movies any time of the year when your spirits need a lift.

This 3-film collection delivers triple the Christmas romance magic with The Christmas Parade, One Starry Night, and Catch a Christmas Star, all with sugar-plum sweet romance, and the happy endings you count on in Hallmark Christmas movies.

In The Christmas Parade, a reporter flees the city after her fiancé is found with a famous socialite. When she’s stuck in a small town she finds herself helping an artist save the town’s art center.

One Starry Night brings us Holly, a woman who loves Christmas, but finds her holiday hopes dashed when her boyfriend leaves her all alone for Christmas. When Holly tries to join him, she finds herself pleasantly side-tracked.

In Catch a Christmas Star a 10-year-old girl discovers that her father’s high school crush is now a famous pop star. She decides her father’s Christmas wish is a reunion with the “one who got away.”

This is just one of many 3-film sets of Hallmark Christmas Countdown favorites, so you can catch up with the Christmas couples you love, any time you need a little Christmas — and romance!

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Now is the time to rewatch the entire Middle Earth series of movies and then tune into the new Amazon Prime Series, Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power. That’s why one of the best DVD sets you can buy today is the Middle Earth Theatrical Collection 6-pack. It’s a movie must-have set for any fantasy film lover, or for Lord of The Rings fans —whether books, movies, or both.

This set of 6 DVDs includes the entire Hobbit Trilogy with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Directed by Peter Jackson, all three films are a fantastical adventure as seen through the eyes of Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, on his quest to seek the lost Dwarf Kingdom and save it from Smaug the dragon.

The set also includes the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy, with The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. The series follows Hobbit, Frodo Baggins, on his own quest with his loyal friend Sam as together they seek to destroy The Ring.

This is one of the best DVD sets for hours of mythical adventure based on the classic novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, an author who created a legacy fictional land, rich with lore and legend and beloved by millions.

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One of the best DVD sets to give any lover of early human history is the legendary historical saga as told from the Empirical Palace by Roman Emperor, Claudius, himself — or at least by award-winning actor Derek Jacobi starring as Claudius in the story of his life told in his famously stuttering voice. I, Claudius was originally released in 1976 by BBC Television in the UK and then on Masterpiece Theater in the US in 1977, and stars a talented cast including Derek Jacobi as Claudius, Sian Philips as Livia, John Hurt as Caligula, and Patrick Stewart (of later Star Trek: The Next Generation fame), as well as an ensemble of many other gifted actors from the stage and screen. Producers chose to film the miniseries entirely on videotape like a stage production, a choice the director states was artistic, not budgetary.

Despite the 1970s soap-opera style simplicity of the taping, this gripping tale both shocked and charmed the world and still remains a cult-classic favorite for history fans, fans of Masterpiece Theater, and people who remember watching the series with their parents in the 1970s and talking about it at school the next day in tones of shock and awe.

In a Game of Thrones-like tale of a battle for the ruling throne, Kind and wise Claudius looks back on his own surprising rise to power against all odds and adversity, beginning with Livia’s poisonous plot to see her own son, Tiberius, on the throne, through the insidious rule of the soul-rotted despot, Caligula, and through betrayal from all corners of Rome, including from those closest to him.

I, Claudius is based on the historical novel by Robert Graves and remains faithful to the book and to what we know of Roman history, with political conspiracies, bloodthirsty battles, and dark drama following a lame, stuttering, member of the royal family as he rises unexpectedly to the most powerful position on earth between 24 BC and AD 54.

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One of the best DVD sets was the most watched miniseries ever to air on PBS and winner of over 40 honors in television and film. The Civil War by Ken Burns is now in a 25th anniversary edition and completely remastered into stunning HD that brings the past to life. The influential series used groundbreaking techniques, including the slow zoom-in and span-across method now known as the Ken Burns effect to add movement to still photographs.

Ken Burns The Civil War 25th Anniversary Edition includes over 16,000 photos and historical paintings as well as beautifully read excerpts from real letters and journals including from Frederick Douglass, and Mary Boykin Chesnut. With narration by David McCullough, insights from noted historians, and a haunting soundtrack, The Civil War patches the tragedy back together seamlessly for today’s viewers to gain a more comprehensive picture of what led up to the terrible war, the battles and generals who led the fight for both sides, and the everyday men who fought and died so many years ago.

This five-year effort produced by Ken and Ric Burns includes an interview with a 104-year-old poet, the daughter of a once-slave in one of the last interviews with a woman only one generation away from the country’s most shameful time period, before the Civil War was the first terrible step on the road to redemption.

This is one of the best DVD sets to give as a gift to any history lover, or to share with a younger generation so the country never forgets.

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One of the best DVD sets to add to any collection is the complete series set of the show Rolling Stone Magazine named “the Greatest TV Show of All Time,” and Vanity Fair called, “The greatest show in TV history.” Winner of 21 Emmy Awards, The Sopranos is the game-changing series that raised the bar on expectations for television series — a standard that production companies have struggled to live up to ever since. The talented cast, including James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, delivers riveting performances in every episode.

The Sopranos follows an unforgettable family through the eyes of the patriarchal crime boss, Tony Soprano, beautifully played by the late James Gandolfini. Raised in a New Jersey-Italian organized crime family, Tony’s rise to power and responsibility in the world of crime and cover-up causes panic attacks that force him to seek help from a psychologist. As Tony slowly opens up about his world, the audience not only experiences life on the inside of the mafia but also the inside of the head of a crime boss tasked with keeping his loved ones alive and his place secured at the top of the power hierarchy.

With 6 seasons of drama plus two fun bonus feature DVDs, this is one of the best DVD sets for an epic binge-watch session, perfectly timed to follow up with the recently released prequel, The Many Saints of Newark, starring Michael Gandolfini in his talented father’s footsteps as the young Tony Soprano.

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One of the best DVD sets for an epic family movie night is the Guardians of The Galaxy 2-Movie Collection. Fans of the magic of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will love having both award-winning Emmy-nominated movies ready to watch whenever they want an intergalactic thrill ride with laughs along the way. Produced by Marvel and distributed by Disney Studios, both box-office smash films have a pivotal place in the hearts of both Marvel and Disney fans. And with word of Volume-3 on the horizon in 2023, now is the time re-watch the double feature favorite — or watch for the first time if you’ve (somehow) missed them.

In Guardians of the Galaxy, a misfit group of space criminals led by Star-Lord, Peter Quill — played by the talented Chris Pratt — must stop a dangerous space warrior out to steal an orb with mystical powers as part of a quest to purge the universe.

In Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, the rag-tag group of space heroes juggles family issues and trouble within the team when the truth about the Star-Lord’s father comes to light — celestial light, that is.

Both movies are not only cinematic treats for superhero and sci-fi fans, but they are also laugh-out-loud funny, filled with surprisingly tender moments, and edge-of-your-seat exciting. This is also one of the best DVD sets for memorable soundtracks thanks to Peter Quill’s love for a good mixed tape.

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With the fifth season of the number one series on television set to begin airing in November, one of the best DVD sets to watch from beginning to end is Yellowstone: The First Four Seasons. Find out what everyone’s talking about by catching up on the hugely popular series starring the mega-talented Kevin Costner as well as Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, and one of the best ensemble casts on any TV series. Yellowstone premiered on the Paramount Network in 2018, and skyrocketed into immediate popularity, holding its place ever since.

With cinematic views of the immense Dutton estate filmed on location at a real Montana guest ranch as well as other locations in the Big Sky Country, every episode is a glimpse into a gorgeous world, unlike any other landscape. But cinematography aside, it also offers all the crime, coverup, and family drama you’d expect from the Sopranos right on the Dutton Family Ranch.

In Yellowstone, Kevin Costner stars as John Dutton, Patriarch of an immense family-owned ranch where the conflict rages over land borders with the nearby Native American reservation, greedy land developers, and National Park officials. Unfortunately, the conflicts simmer on the inside of the monumental log-home mansion with family loyalties torn and trampled under foot time and again throughout the four seasons.

This is one of the best DVD sets offering a series with some of the best-acted and most well-written storylines on television today, with each season as great as the previous one and high expectations for season five.

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