Everything about Alpha Video totally explained
Alpha Video (also known as
Alpha Home Entertainment) is an entertainment company, based near
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, that specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of
public domain movies and TV shows on
DVD.
Alpha Video releases over 25 new DVD titles monthly and has over 1,700 DVDs in their active catalog, including hundreds of rare films and TV shows from
Hollywood's past.
With 244+ DVDs worth of TV shows in active distribution, industry publication
DVD Release Report (Number 524, 3/28/2007) ranked Alpha Video #3 in the "Top 25 Sources for TV Series on DVD Through the Period Ending March 31, 2007", behind
Warner Home Video (471 releases) and
Paramount Home Entertainment (376 releases). With over 1,044 releases available, the same publication ranked Alpha Video #1 in the "Top 25 Sources for Theatrical Catalog on DVD."
The company is privately-held, and owned by
Collectables Records founder Jerry Greene. Alpha Video is one of a group of companies, including
Collectables Records, Gotham Distributing Corporation and the e-commerce website OLDIES.com, owned and operated by Jerry Greene and the Greene family.
Alpha New Cinema
In 2004, Alpha Video introduced Alpha New Cinema, an imprint "whose goal is to present eclectic, interesting and unusual contemporary motion pictures and television productions." Notables releases from Alpha New Cinema include the
Charlie Gracie documentary,
Fabulous! An Intimate Portrait of a Rock Pioneer, Mark Redfield's
The Death of Poe,
Terror in the Tropics with
Bela Lugosi and
Boris Karloff, and several films by
Ed Wood veteran,
Conrad Brooks.
Release of Ted V. Mikels' Catalog on DVD
In 2007, Alpha Video released the catalog of filmmaker
Ted V. Mikels, many titles of which had previously been available from
Image Entertainment, under the Alpha New Cinema imprint. Titles released include
10 Violent Women,
The Doll Squad,
The Corpse Grinders,
The Corpse Grinders II,
Girl in Gold Boots and
Blood Orgy of the She Devils. Later that year, Alpha released the
Ted V. Mikel's Signature Collection, a 6-DVD boxset which contains those six titles and is autographed by Mikels. In 2008, the company released
Mark of the Astro-Zombies, the sequel to Mikels'
The Astro-Zombies, on DVD.
Notable releases
The Merv Griffin Show: 40 of The Most Interesting People of Our Time
In 2006, Alpha Video partnered with
Merv Griffin to release a 3-DVD box set of interviews from
The Merv Griffin Show entitled
The Merv Griffin Show: 40 of The Most Interesting People of Our Time. This set contained one DVD of "Hollywood Legend" interviews, including
Orson Welles,
Ingrid Bergman,
Richard Burton,
Sophia Loren,
Roy Rogers,
Grace Kelly and
John Wayne. The second DVD contained interviews with comedians, including
Jack Benny,
Don Rickles,
Jerry Seinfeld,
Carl Reiner,
Richard Pryor,
George Burns,
Jay Leno and
George Carlin. The final DVD in the set contained interviews with "Extraordinary Guests" such as
Walter Cronkite,
Robert F. Kennedy,
Richard Nixon,
Gerald R. Ford,
Ronald Reagan and
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feature films
Exploitation films
Assassin of Youth
Chained for Life
Child Bride
The Cocaine Fiends
Marihuana
Reefer Madness
Sex Madness
Movie serials
Ace Drummond
Fighting with Kit Carson
The Fighting Marines
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Holt of the Secret Service
Junior G-Men
King of the Wild
The Phantom Empire
Radar Men from the Moon
Sky Raiders
Undersea Kingdom
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Silent films
Broken Blossoms
Intolerance (film)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
Orphans of the Storm
The Bat (1926 film)
The Birth of a Nation
The General (1927 film)
The Golem (1920 film)
The Lost World (1925 film)
The Mechanical Man
The Squaw Man
The Thief of Baghdad (1924)
Television shows
The Adventures of Champion
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The Adventures of Long John Silver
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Annie Oakley (TV series)
The Betty Hutton Show
Diver Dan
Dusty's Trail
Dragnet (series)
Fury (TV series)
I Married Joan
The Lone Ranger
Mack and Myer for Hire
Martin Kane, Private Eye
Meet Corliss Archer
Mr. and Mrs. North
One Step Beyond (TV series)
Rocky King, Inside Detective
Sky King
The Veil
Wagon Train
What's My Line?
You Asked For It
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