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Audio described cinema and DVD information.
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Audio described films on DVD and Blu Ray.
More than 450 UK DVD's with audio description are now available to buy or rent (full list below). Check the usual outlets - supermarkets, HMV, Blockbuster, online stores etc.
The a.d. track is just another of the many available audio tracks on a disc. Some of these tracks are commonly used for director / cast commentaries. Pressing the 'audio' button on the DVD remote control selects the available audio tracks.
If a DVD has an audio description track, it's usually the case that the Blu Ray release of the film will also have the track. But sometimes the Blu Ray release will have the track, and the DVD will not. Check the list below beore you rent/purchase.
Click for audio described movie samples in mp3 format.
Most recent audio described DVD releases:
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Bright Star, Amelia, An Education, Julie and Julia, Zombieland, Planet 51, Toy Story 1 & 2 special editions, Triangle, Miss March, Pixar's Up, Jennifer's Body, Adam, The Ugly Truth, Couples Retreat, Adventureland, Broken Embraces, Aliens in the Attic, Surrogates, Fawlty Towers - Remastered Box Set (episodes only, not commentary disc), Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, Dorian Gray, 500 Days of Summer, The Taking of Pelham 123, District 9, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Hangover, Transformers 2 - Revenge of the Fallen, G Force, The Proposal, Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Coco Before Chanel, Star Trek, Night at the Museum 2, Public Enemies (Blu-ray only, not DVD), Monsters vs Aliens, Let The Right One In, Angels and Demons, The Boat That Rocked, The Damned United, Watchmen, The Young Victoria, Marley and Me, Gran Torino, Revolutionary Road, Bolt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Valkyrie, Slumdog Millionaire.
Note: It is usually the case that if the DVD release of a film has an audio descripton track, then the Blu-Ray version will also have the track.
Click for audio described movie samples in mp3 format.
Full list :
101 Dalmatians:
Platinum Edition
10,000 B.C.
11th Hour
12 Rounds
13
Going on 30
16 Blocks
21
28 Weeks Later
300
500 Days of Summer
A Cock and
Bull Story
A Good Year
A Lot Like Love
A Scanner Darkly
Across the Universe
Adam
Adulthood
Adventureland
Aladdin
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Aladdin Trilogy (Disney) Boxed Set (only 2 of the 3 films are audio described.
the second film - Return of Jafar - is NOT audio described)
Alamo, The
Aliens vs Predator Requiem
Aliens in the Attic
All the Kings Men
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Amelia
An Education
Angels and Demons
Anger Management (NOT DVD - Blu Ray only)
Ant Bully
Are we done yet?
Are we there yet?
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
Australia
Aviator, The
Babylon
A.D.
Bad Santa
Be Kind Rewind
Be With Me
Bedtime Stories
Being Julia
Beowulf
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Bewitched
Bleak House (BBC TV Series)
Blindness
Boat That Rocked, The
Body of Lies
Bolt
Borat
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The
Brave One, The
Breakfast on Pluto
Breaking and Entering
Brick Lane
Bride and Prejudice
Bride Wars
Brideshead Revisited 2008 (with talking menus)
Bright Young Things
Bright Star
Bringing Down the House
Brokeback Mountain
Broken Embraces
Brother Bear
Bruce Almighty
Bucket List, The
Cars (Pixar
animation)
Casanova
Casino Royale (James Bond)
Catch and Release
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cheri
Chicago
Chicken Little
Chicken Run
Christmas with the Kranks
Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The
Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian, The
Cinderella (Disney) (Special Edition)
Cinderella Man
Click
Closer
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Clubland
Coco Before Chanel
Cold Creek Manor
Cold Mountain
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Confetti
Corporation, The (pre-2007 edition)
Corpse Bride
Cottage, The
Covenant, The (NOT DVD - Blu Ray only)
Couples Retreat
Crimson Tide
Croupier, The
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Daddy Day
Camp
Damned United, The
Dancer in the Dark
Darjeeling Limited, The
Dark Knight, The
Dark Waters
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
Dear Frankie
December Boys
Deck the Halls
Deep Water (2007)
Defiance
Deja Vu
Derailed
Deuce Bigalow, European Gigolo
Devil Wears Prada, The
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Die Hard 4.0 (single disk version only)
District 9
Donkey Punch
Dorian Gray
Doubt
Dr Who Series One (5 Disc Boxed Set)
Dr Who, Series Two (Box Set - with talking menus)
Dr Who Series Four (Box Set - with talking menus)
Duchess, The
Dukes of Hazzard, The
Earth the
Power of the Planet (not DVD - Blu Ray only, with talking menus)
East is East
Eight Below
Enchanted
Enduring Love
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy of the State
Epic Movie
Eragon
Evan Almighty
Everything is Illuminated
Eye, The
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fawlty Towers - Remastered Box Set (episodes only, not commentry disc)
Festival
Finding Neverland
Firewall
Firehouse Dog
Firm, The
First Sunday, The
Five Children and It
Flags of our Fathers
Flightplan
Fools Gold
For Your Consideration
Forgotten, The
Fountain, The
Fred Claus
Frida
G Force
G I Joe - The Rise of Cobra
Game Plan,
The
Gangster No 1
Garden State
Get Smart
Ghost Rider
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Goal!
Goal 2
Godsend
Gothika (NOT DVD - Blu Ray only)
Gran Torino
Gridiron Gang
Guardian, The
Hancock
Hangover, The
Hannah Montana the Movie
Happening, The
Happy Feet
Happy Go Lucky
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Hellboy
Hellboy (3 Disk Director's Cut (main film only audio described)
Hero
Hills Have Eyes 2, The
History Boys, The
Hitch
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hitman - Extreme Edition
Hogfather, The
Home on the Range
Horton hears a Who
Hotel for Dogs
Hours, The
House of Mirth, The
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Hunger (retail only, not rental version)
I Am Legend
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
Ice Age 2
Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Identity (NOT DVD - Blu Ray only)
Igor
I Love You Man
Incredibles, The
International, The
Invasion, The
Is There Anybody There?
Island, The
I Want Candy
Jane Austen
Book Club, The
Jane Eyre (2006) (with talking menus)
Jeepers Creepers 2
Jennifer's Body
John Tucker Must Die
Julie and Julia
Jumper
Jungle Book 2
Juno
Just My Luck
Kill Bill
Vol 2
King Arthur (Directors Cut)
Kinky Boots
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kung Fu Hustle
Lady and
the Tramp (Special Edition 2 disc version)
Lady in the Water
Ladykillers, The
Lake House, The
Lakeview Terrace
Lark Rise to Candleford Series One and Two (with talking menus on Series 2)
Lassie
Last King of Scotland, The
Last Chance Harvey
Late Night Shopping
Layer Cake
Legend of Zorro, The
Let The Right One In
Letters from Iwo Jima
Lewis - Series One
License to Wed
Lions for Lambs
Little Dorrit (BBC Series) with talking menus
Little Man
Little Miss Sunshine
Lizzie McGuire
London to Brighton
Longest Yard, The
Looking for Eric (2 disk special edition)
Lucky
Break
Lucky You
Made of
Honour
Magdalen Sisters, The
Magic Roundabout
Mall Cop
Man On Wire
Mansfield Park (TV show)
March of the Penguins
Marie Antoinette
Marley and Me
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins - 45th Anniversary Edition
Matador, The
Max Payne (Harder Cut)
Meet the Spartans
Memoirs of a Geisha
Millions
Mirrors
Miss March
Miss Potter
Monster House
Monsters, Inc (not all versions)
Monsters vs Alien
Morecambe and Wise Series 5 (with talking menus), Morecambe and Wise Series
6 (with talking menus),
Moulin
Rouge
Mulan
Munich
Music and Lyrics
Must Love Dogs
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Nancy Drew
National Treasure
National Treasure 2
Nectar - only available via info@roaring-girl.com
Night at the Museum
Nightmare Before Christmas, The
Nights in Rodanthe
No Reservations
North Country
Notorious
Notes on a Scandal
Numberjacks
Numberjacks - Standing by to Zoom
Numberjacks - Calling All Agents
Numberjacks - Brain Gain
Observe
and Report
Oliver Twist (BBC 2008, with talking menus)
Omen, The (2006)
One Missed Call
Open Season
Oceans Thirteen
Passion
of the Christ, The (original only - NOT 2007 special edition)
Pathfinder (extended version)
Penelope
Perfect Stranger
Peter Pan
Pierrepoint
Piglets Big Movie
Pineapple Express
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 - Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - At World's End
Planet 51
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Poseidon, The
Prestige, The
Pretty Woman (2001 version)
Pride and Prejudice (BBC series) (Blu Ray only - with talking menus)
Producers, The (2005)
Proof
Proposal, The
Prom Night
Public Enemies (Blu-ray only, not DVD)
Punisher, The
Punisher: Warzone
Purely Belter
Pursuit of Happyness, The
Quantum
of Solace (James Bond)
Quarantine
Queen, The
Rachel Getting
Married
Raising Helen
Rambo
Ransom
Rat Race
Ratatouille (2 disc & 3 disc versions)
Ray - The Ray Charles Story
Reaping, The
Red Road
Reef, The
Reign Over Me
Rescuers, The
Resident Evil, Apocalypse
Resident Evil Extinction
Revolutionary Road
Rock n Rolla
Rocker, The
Rocky Balboa
Rogue Trader
Rumour Has It
Saawariya
Santa Clause 3
Savages, The
Scary Movie 4
Science of Sleep, The
Sea Biscuit
Secret of Moonacre, The (coming soon)
Sentinel, The
Seven Pounds
Severence
Sexy Beast
Shaggy Dog, The
Shall We Dance
Shameless Series 2 (TV series)
Shameless Series 3 (TV series)
Shameless Series 4 (TV series)
Shameless Series 5 (TV series)
Shameless Series 1-5 Box Set (TV series)
Shanghai Knights
Shawshank Redemption (10th anniversary special edition)
Shorts
Shutter
Signs (not DVD, Blu ray only)
Simpsons Movie, The
Sin City
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2
Sky High
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Disney),
Slumdog Millionaire,
Speed Racer
Spiderman 2
Spiderman 3
Spiderman Box Set (Blu-ray only)
Star Wars - The Clone Wars
Stealth
Step Brothers
Stomp the Yard
Stormbreaker
Straightheads
Stranger than Fiction
Street Kings
Sunshine
Superbad (theatrical cut - NOT extended two disk version)
Superman Returns
Surf's Up
Surrogates
Survivors (BBC Series) with talking menus
Sweeney Todd - the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Syriana
Taking of Pelham 123, The
Talladega
Nights
Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (Blu Ray only)
Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic
Thank you for Smoking
There Will Be Blood
Thick of It - The Specials, The
Thief Lord, The
This Is England
Tormented
Toy Story & Toy Story 2 (10th Anniversary 4 Disc version)
Toy Story 2 (new two disc version)
Toy Story 1 & 2 special editions
TMNT - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TransAmerica
Transformers 2 - Revenge of the Fallen
Triangle
Ugly Truth, The
Unbreakable
(not DVD, Blu Ray only)
Up (Pixar)
V for Vendetta
Vacancy (NOT DVD - Blu Ray only)
Valiant
Valkyrie
Veronica Guerin
Very Annie Mary
Venus
Village, The
Volver
Waitress
Walk Hard - the Dewey Cox Story
Wall-e
Wallander (with talking menus)
War Zone
Watchmen
Water Horse, The
Wedding Planner, The
Welcome to the Jungle (NOT DVD - Blu Ray only)
What Happens In Vegas
White Chicks
Wild, The
Wild China (not DVD, Blu ray only, with talking menus)
Wild Hogs
X-Files:
I Want To Believe, The
X Men 3 - The Last Stand
Men Origins Wolverine
X.X.X.
2, The Next Level
Year One
Yes Man
You Don't Mess With The Zohan
Young Adam
Young Victoria, The
Zodiac
Zombieland
Zoom
Click for audio described movie samples in mp3 format.
Some U.K. DVD versions, such as special releases, re-releases, or certain 'rental' versions DON'T have the a.d. track, so double check before you purchase or rent!
Other countries also produce DVD's with audio description. Although available to purchase, they will not play on all DVD players, due to different region coding. If your player is "region free", you can play the following DVDs:
U.S. (region one): Some versions of Miami Vice (2006), Inside Man, United 93, Road to Perdition, The Grinch, Terminator 2 (1997 release) and Basic Instinct (1997 release).
Australia (region four): Some versions of Dead Poets Society, Hotel Rwanda, Pulp Fiction, Road to Perdition, Santa Clause 2, Spanglish, Stage Beauty.
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