Distributors

This list covers distributors in the home video industry.

Major studios (The Big Five)

Comcast

• Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
  • MCA DiscoVision (also includes MCA Videodisc)
  • MCA Home Video Canada
  • Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment
  • PolyGram Video (also includes Spectrum, PolyGram Music Video, Island Visual Arts, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips Video Classics, London Records, and Manga Entertainment, Inc.)
    • A&M Video
      • Comprehensive catalog of PolyGram Video releases
  • DreamWorks Home Entertainment (also includes DreamWorks Animation and Classic Media)
    • Golden Book Video
  • Geneon Entertainment
  • NBC Home Entertainment
  • Comprehensive catalog of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment releases
    • Comprehensive catalog of pre-1984 MCA releases

Disney

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (also includes Jim Henson Video)
  • 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment
    • The CBS/Fox Company (includes 20th Century-Fox Video, CBS/Fox Video, FoxVideo, Key Video, and Playhouse Video)
      • Magnetic Video Corporation
    • Comprehensive catalog of 20th Century Home Entertainment releases
  • DiC Toon-Time Video
  • Dimension Home Video
    • List of Dimension Home Video demo tapes
  • Hollywood Pictures Home Video
    • List of Hollywood Pictures Home Video demo tapes
  • Miramax Home Entertainment
    • List of Miramax Home Entertainment demo tapes
  • Touchstone Home Entertainment
    • List of Touchstone Home Entertainment demo tapes
  • Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
    • List of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment demo tapes
    • List of Walt Disney Classics video releases
      • List of Walt Disney Classics demo tapes
    • List of Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection video releases
    • List of Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection video releases
    • List of international Walt Disney Home Video titles
    • Scrapped Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment releases
    • Comprehensive catalog of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment releases (1 to 40000)
    • Comprehensive catalog of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment releases (40001 to 120000)
• ABC Video Enterprises (also includes Signet Video and Summa Video)

Paramount Global

• Paramount Home Media Distribution
  • BET Home Entertainment
  • CBS Home Entertainment
  • CIC Video (a joint venture between Paramount and Universal for distribution outside North America)
  • MTV Home Video
  • Nickelodeon Home Video (also includes Nick Jr.)
  • Republic Pictures Home Video (also includes Spotlite Video)
    • Worldvision Home Video
  • Comprehensive catalog of Paramount Home Media Distribution releases

Sony

• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (also includes SVS/Triumph Home Video, as well as pre-1995 New Line Home Video releases)
  • List of Columbia Classics video releases
  • List of Columbia TriStar Family Collection video releases
  • List of Columbia TriStar Musicals video releases
  • List of Columbia TriStar Romance Collection video releases
  • List of Columbia TriStar Widescreen Presentation video releases
  • List of Magic Window video releases
  • List of MusicVision video releases
  • List of international Sony Pictures Home Entertainment titles
  • RCA SelectaVision
    • Comprehensive catalog of RCA SelectaVision releases
  • Sony Video Software (also includes Fighting Fury Video)
  • FUNimation Entertainment
    • Manga Entertainment, Ltd.
    • The Right Stuf International
  • Madman Entertainment (anime and manga)
• Comprehensive catalog of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases
  • Comprehensive catalog of pre-1984 RCA/Columbia releases
• Columbia House (also includes re-tv video library)
• Sony Music Entertainment (also includes Sony-BMG Music Entertainment and Sony Wonder, as well as pre-1996 Nickelodeon Home Video releases)
  • Random House Home Video
  • BMG Video
  • BMG Independents
  • BMG Kidz (also includes Rincoln Children's Entertainment, as well as pre-Q2 1993 DiC Toon-Time Video releases)

Warner Bros. Discovery

• Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
  • List of international Warner Home Video releases
  • List of Looney Tunes video releases
  • Comprehensive catalog of Warner Home Video releases
  • HBO Home Entertainment (also includes Thorn EMI Video, Thorn EMI/HBO Video, and HBO/Cannon Video)
    • Time-Life Video
  • Lorimar Home Video (also includes Karl Video Corporation, Karl-Lorimar Home Video, Kideo Video, and Scholastic-Lorimar Home Video)
    • Allied Artists Video
  • Turner Home Entertainment (also includes RKO Home Video, CNN Video, and 1994-2004 PBS Home Video releases)
    • Comprehensive catalog of Warner Home Video letter-four digit releases
    • Hanna-Barbera Home Video
    • RKO library before Turner
  • New Line Home Entertainment
    • Nelson Entertainment (also includes Blay Video and Embassy Home Entertainment)
  • Warner Music Entertainment
    • Rhino Home Video
    • WarnerVision Entertainment (also includes A*Vision Entertainment, Body Vision, and Kid Vision)

Minor studios

Hasbro

• Tiger Electronics

Lionsgate Entertainment

• Lions Gate Home Entertainment
  • Comprehensive catalog of Lions Gate Home Entertainment releases
  • Artisan Entertainment (also includes U.S.A. Home Video, Caballero-era Monterey Home Video, U.S.A. Sports Video, Sybil Danning's Adventure Video, International Video Entertainment, Radio Vision Video, Carolco Home Video, and Live Entertainment)
    • Comprehensive catalog of Artisan Entertainment releases
    • Family Home Entertainment
    • ThrillerVideo
    • The Video Late Show
    • King Bee Video
    • Avid Home Entertainment
    • Hallmark Home Entertainment (also includes Evergreen Entertainment)
      • Cabin Fever Entertainment
    • Vestron Video (also includes pre-1982 Time-Life Video content)
      • Children's Video Library
      • Lightning Video
      • Comprehensive catalog of Vestron Video releases
    • Vista Organization Home Video Corporation (dba Vista Home Video; unrelated to Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment
    • HGV Video Productions (Canada)
    • Video Treasures
      • Burbank Video (also includes Troy Gold, Viking Video Classics and pre-late 1980s Active Home Video content)
        • Jenal Entertainment (also includes Bingo Video)
        • American Video
        • Video-SIG
      • Media Home Entertainment (also includes Hi-Tops Video, VCL Communications and Fox Hills Video)
        • The Nostalgia Merchant
      • Teal Entertainment
      • MNTex Entertainment
      • Strand Home Video
    • Starmaker Entertainment (also includes R&G Video)
      • New World Video (also includes Learning Corporation of America)
  • Cinépix Film Properties (Canada)
  • Entertainment One (Canada)
    • Alliance Releasing Home Video (Canada)
      • Cineplex Odeon Video (Canada) (also includes Pan-Canadian Distributors)
      • Maple Pictures (Canada)
    • Malofilm Video (Canada) (also includes Behaviour Communications and Seville Pictures)
      • Nova Home Video (Canada)
    • Phase 4 Films (Canada)
  • Trimark Home Video (also includes Vidmark Entertainment and Kidmark Entertainment)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Amazon

• MGM Home Entertainment
  • Cannon Video
  • Orion Home Video (also includes Filmways Video)
    • MCEG Home Video
      • Forum Home Video
      • Virgin Vision
  • Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment
  • Comprehensive catalog of MGM Home Entertainment releases

Foreign companies

Argentina

• Gativideo
• LK-TEL Video

Australia

• The Magnificent Seven
  • CBS/Fox Video (South Pacific) (also includes 20th Century-Fox Video (South Pacific))
    • Magnetic Video (South Pacific)
  • CEL Home Video
    • Playaround Video
    • Star Video (also includes Australian Video, Film World Festival, and Storytime Collection)
  • CIC Video Australia (also includes CIC-Taft Video, Rigby-CIC Video, and Merlin Video)
  • Roadshow Home Video (also includes Applause Home Video, Palace Video, and Premiere Home Entertainment)
  • Thorn EMI Video Australia
  • Video Classics (Australia)
    • Filmways Home Video Australia
  • Warner Home Video
• ABC Video Australia
• Madman Entertainment
• Seven Keys Video
• Syme Home Video
• Sundowner Home Video
• Videoscope

Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands)

• CNR Video
• Concorde Video
• Video 2001
• Video for Pleasure

Brazil

• LK-Tel Video
• Rene Globo Video

Canada

• The ABM Group
  • Interglobal Home Video (also includes Auburn Productions and Kid Flicks)
• Astral Video
  • Ciné-Maison
• BFS Video
• CBC Home Video
• Cineglobe
• Cinéma Plus
• Motion International
• Screencraft Video
• TVA Films
• Videoville Showtime
• White Knight Video

France

• Europa Corp.
• Gaumont
• M6 Video
• Manhattan Video
• Proserpine
• René Château Home Video
• Sunset Video
• TF1 Video
• VIP Video
• Wild Side Video

Germany

• Arcade Video
• Atlas International
• Constantin Video
• Taurus Video
• Toppic
• UFA Video

Greece

• Audio Visual Enterprises
• Kino Video
• Hellas Kosmos Home Video
• Home Video Center
• Home Video Hellas
• MTC Video
• Nea Kinisi Video
• Videosonic

Italy

• Cinehollywood
• DB Video
• Deltavideo
• Domovideo
• Univideo

Japan

• Columbia Music Video
• Daiei Video
• Eion
• Emotion Video Cassette
• Funai
• Nikkatsu
• Pack-in-Video
• Pony Canyon
• Shochiku Home Video
• TDK Super Video
• Toei Video
• Toho Video
• Tohokushinsha Home Video
• Tokuma Japan Communications
• Toshiba
• Towa Video
• VAP Video
• Victor
• Video Box

Mexico

• Videovisa S.A.

Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)

• Esselte Video
• VCM
• Walthers Video

UK

• BBC Video
• Channel 5
• Entertainment in Video
• First Independent
• Guild Home Video (also includes Peppermint)
• High Fliers Video Distribution
• Medusa Communications
• Odyssey
• Palace Video UK
• Precision Video (also includes Barber)
• Rank Video Library
• Video Collection International
  • Strand Home Video (USA)
• Tartan Video
• Thorn EMI Video UK
• Video Gems UK
• Virgin Video

Pre-cert companies

• Astra Video
• Apple Video
• Brent Walker Video
• Derann Video (also includes Ambassador Video and Goldstar Video)
• GO Video
• Hokushin
• Intervision Video (also includes Alpha Video and Inter-Light Video)
• Iver Film Services
• JVI
• Monte Video
• Mountain Video (also includes Archer Video, Modern Video, Movietime Video, and Rainbow Video)
• Video Network
• Video Unlimited
• Vipco
• VPD (also includes Canon Video, Inter-Ocean Video, and Replay Video)
• Walton Video
• World of Video 2000 (also includes Checkerboard, French Label, Jaguar Video, Video Warehouse, and VTX Video)

Venezuela

• Video Rodven

Anime companies

• ADV Films
• AnimEigo
• Anime Village
• Bandai Visual
• Central Park Media (also includes Anime 18, Software Sculptors, and US Manga Corps)
• FUNimation Entertainment
  • Manga Entertainment, Ltd.
• Geneon
• Manga Entertainment, Inc. (only includes post-PolyGram content)
  • L.A. Hero (also includes content from U.S. Renditions and Dark Image Entertainment)
• Media Blasters
• Sentai Filmworks
• Streamline Pictures
• Viz Media

U.S. Spanish-language companies

• Film-Mex Entertainment
• Mexcinema Video Corp.

Other companies

• Academy Entertainment
• Acorn Media
• Active Home Video
• AIMS Multimedia
• Alaska Video Postcards, Inc.
• Alpha Home Entertainment (also includes New Age Video and The Chipmunk Library)
• Ambrose Video Publishing
• Amvest Video (also includes Passport International Productions, Kid Pics, Vintage Video and Amvest Christmas Classics)
• A-PIX Entertainment
• Ardustry Home Entertainment
• Arrow Video Inc.
• The Asylum Home Entertainment
• Atlantic Releasing Co.
• Avalanche Home Entertainment
• Avon
• Barron's Home Video
• BCI Eclipse (also includes Brentwood Home Video)
  • Simitar Entertainment
• Benson Music Group
• Best Film and Video Corporation
• Big Top Video
• Bridgestone Group
• Broad Green Pictures
• Broadway Theatre Archive
• BWE Video
• Caballero Home Video
• Cascom Home Video
• Chordant Distribution Group
• Cinderella Distributors
• Cinedigm
• Concord Video
• Congress Video Group
• Coronet/MTI Film and Video
• Crash Cinema
• The Criterion Collection
• DawnSignPress
• Digiview Entertainment
• Direct Cinema Limited
• Direct Video
• DK Vision
• Echo Bridge Home Entertainment (also includes Platinum Disc Corporation)
• Edde Entertainment (also includes T-Z Video, Ace Video and High Desert Films)
• Educational Products for Infancy, Inc.
• Electric Video
• Enigma Entertainment Corporation
• Feature Films for Families
• First Look Home Entertainment
  • DEJ Productions
• Fotomat Video
• Frame Work Entertainment Group, LLC
• Fries Home Video
• Front Row Entertainment
• Full Moon Features
  • Wizard Video (also includes CultVideo and Force Video)
• Gator Home Entertainment
• Geffen Home Video
• Genius Products
• Goldhil Video
• Goldstar Video Corp.
• GoodTimes Entertainment
  • HGV Video Productions (Canada)
  • Kids Klassics
  • GTK, Inc.
• Great Entertainment
• Group Productions
• HaleStone Distribution
• Hallmark Home Entertainment (also includes Evergreen Entertainment)
• Harmony Vision
• Hart Sharp Video
• Hemdale Home Video
• HIT Entertainment
  • Lyrick Studios
• Home Vision Entertainment
  • Films Incorporated
  • Public Media Video
• Image Entertainment
• Imperial Entertainment
• Independent United Distributors
• Integrity Music
• Ivy Entertainment
• J2 Communications
• Kartes Video Communications
• King of Video (also includes Paragon Video Productions)
• Kino Lorber
  • Fox Lorber Home Video
  • Kino on Video
• Koch Lorber Films
• Kultur International Films
• LaserLight Digital
• London Films
• The MacArthur Library
• Madacy Music Group
• Magnum Entertainment
• Marathon Music & Video
• Maverick Entertainment
• Mill Creek Entertainment
• Mogul Video
• Monarch Home Video
• Monterey Home Video
• MotorWeek Home Video
• MPI Home Video (also includes Gorgon Video and Starlog Video)
• MTI Home Video
• National Geographic Video
• NBR Enterprises
• NCircle Entertainment
• New Video
• New River Media
• New Star Video
• New Yorker Video
• Niles Entertainment
• NoShame
• NPS Home Video
• Olive Films
• Omega Entertainment
• Pacific Arts Video (also includes Pacific Arts-era PBS Home Video content)
• Palisades Home Video (also includes Continental Video and Cinema Group Home Video)
• Palm Beach Entertainment
• Palm Pictures
• Paulist Press
• PBS Distribution
  • PBS Video
  • Skiprope Entertainment
  • WGBH Boston Video
• Pioneer Entertainment
• Plaza Entertainment
• PM Entertainment
• Price/Stern/Sloan Video
• Prism Entertainment
• Quality Classics
• Questar Home Video
• Raedon Home Video
• Raven Releasing
• Regal Video
• Sandstar Family Entertainment
• SBK Music Video
• Screen Media Films
• Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment
• Shell Oil Company
• Shout! Factory
• Showtime Entertainment
• Simon Marketing
• Simon & Schuster Video
• SISU Home Entertainment
• Small Fry Productions
• Spartan Home Entertainment
• Star Classics
• Starling Films
• Sterling Entertainment Group (also includes United American Video)
  • Celebrity Home Entertainment (also includes Celebrity's Just for Kids Home Video, Meta Video and Unicon Communications)
  • VidAmerica, Inc.
• Sterling Home Entertainment
• Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
• Super Source Video
• Super Video
• Tai Seng Video Marketing
• Tapeworm Video Distributors
• Teaching Tolerance
• Thunderbean Animation
• Trans World Entertainment
• Trinity Home Entertainment
• Trylon Video
• Twilight Time
• Unicorn Video
• VCA Pictures
• VCI Home Video (also includes United Home Video and Vanguard Video)
• VCII
• Velocity Home Entertainment
• Video Corporation of America
• Video Gems (also includes Century Video Corporation)
• Video Yesteryear
• Virgin Records America
• Vivendi Entertainment
• Voltage Video
• Well Go USA
• Wellspring Media
• Westlake Entertainment
• Wide-Eyed Learning
• Wood Knapp Video
• Word Entertainment (also includes Everland Entertainment and DaySpring Entertainment)
• World Wide Pictures Home Video
• World Wrestling Entertainment Home Video
• WHAM! USA
• Xenon Video
• York Entertainment
• Zeitgeist Video