The Media Access Group at WGBH is proud to have been a major partner in creating the first fully accessible DVD with captions, video description, and an audio navigation talking-menu system: American Experience, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided. (See full press release.)

We continue to work with DVD home video distributors to encourage them to make their DVD releases fully accessible. To contact distributors to advocate for DVD releases with captions, video description and an audio navigation system, link to a full list of Hollywood studio contacts at: http://ncam.wgbh.org/mopix/studios.html.

To date, the following DVDs have been made fully accessible with captions, video description, and an audio navigation/talking-menu system:

American Experience, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (PBS Home Video, available from http://www.shopPBS.org, or 1-800-645-4727)

American Experience, Battle of the Bulge: The Deadliest Battle of World War II (PBS Home Video, available from http://www.shopPBS.org, or 1-800-645-4727)

American Experience, Chicago: City of the Century (PBS Home Video, available from http://www.shopPBS.org, or 1-800-645-4727)

American Experience, Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (PBS Home Video, available from http://www.shopPBS.org, or 1-800-645-4727)

American Experience, Partners of the Heart (PBS Home Video, available from http://www.shopPBS.org, or 1-800-645-4727)

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Collectors' Edition/Full Screen Edition (Universal Studios Home Video, available wherever DVDs are sold)

The following mainstream films have been released on DVD with captions and video description (the DVDs do not include the audio navigation/talking-menu system). All can be purchased wherever DVDs are sold

40 Year Old Virgin (Universal Home Video) **Please note that the description is included on the RATED VERSION DVD ONLY.

Blind Dating (Universal Home Video)

Cinderella Man (Universal Home Video)

Death Race (Universal Home Video, debuts on DVD 12/21/08)

Evan Almighty (Universal Home Video)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Universal Home Video)

The Incredible Hulk (2008 version) (Universal Home Video)

Inside Man (Universal Home Video)

Knocked Up (Universal Home Video) **Please note that the description is included on the RATED VERSION DVD ONLY.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Universal Home Video, debuts on DVD 12/16/08)

Munich (DreamWorks SKG, Universal Home Video)

The Passion of the Christ (Twentieth Century Fox Home Video)

Road to Perdition (DreamWorks Home Entertainment, available wherever DVDs are sold)

United 93 (Universal Home Video)

Wanted (Universal Home Video)

Ray - Enhanced with DVS® (Ray "DVS Enhanced" Universal Home Studios Video, is available on amazon.com, walmart.com and through Walmart's toll free number: 1-800-966-6546)

The following DVDs included a description track on their original release, however, subsequent re-issues have not included the track. Amazon.com has links to sources of "used" copies of these titles should you be interested in purchasing one or both for your collection.

Basic Instinct (Artisan Home Entertainment, 1997 release)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Artisan Home Entertainment, 1997 release)

The following WGBH/PBS programs released on DVD are accessible via captions and video description. All can be ordered from WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231:

Arthur

Arthur, Ants in Arthur's Pants

Arthur, Big Brother Binky

Arthur, Binky Goes Nuts

Arthur, Cast Away

Arthur, Elwood City Turns 100

Arthur, Prunella Sees the Light

Arthur, Season 10

Arthur, Sleepovers, Sports and More

Arthur, The World of Tomorrow

Between the Lions

Between the Lions, Between the Lions Season I

Between the Lions, Farmer Ken's Puzzle

Between the Lions, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?

Between the Lions, Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West

Between the Lions, Shooting Stars

Between the Lions, The Chap with Caps and More Set

Between the Lions, The Hopping Hen and More

Between the Lions, The Popcorn Popper

Between the Lions, To the Ship, To the Ship!

Masterpiece Theatre

Masterpiece Theatre, Anna Karenina

Masterpiece Theatre, Bertie & Elizabeth: The Story of King George and Queen Elizabeth

Masterpiece Theatre, The Blackheath Poisonings

Masterpiece Theatre, Frenchman's Creek

Masterpiece Theatre, Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Masterpiece Theatre, Northanger Abbey

Masterpiece Theatre, Oliver Twist

Masterpiece Theatre, Warrior Queen

Mystery!

Mystery!, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 1 Set

Mystery!, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Great Deliverance

Mystery!, Mrs. Bradley Mysteries Series Pilot & (Series 1) Set

Mystery!, Mrs. Bradley Mysteries Set

Mystery!, Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Speedy Death

Mystery!, Second Sight 1

Mystery!, Second Sight 2 Set

Mystery!, Second Sight 1 & 2

Mystery!, Touching Evil 2: A Pupil of Murder

Mystery!, Touching Evil 2: The Caregiver

Mystery!, Touching Evil 2: What Price a Child

Mystery!, Touching Evil 2 Set

Mystery!, Touching Evil 3 Set

NOVA

NOVA, Absolute Zero

NOVA, America's Stone Age Explorers

NOVA, Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land

NOVA, Arctic Passage

NOVA, Ape Genius

NOVA, Astrospies

NOVA, Battle of the X-Planes

NOVA, Battle Plan Under Fire

NOVA, The Boldest Hoax

NOVA, Car of the Future

NOVA, Crash of Flight 111

NOVA, Cuttlefish - Kings of Camouflage

NOVA, A Daring Flight

NOVA, The Deadliest Plane Crash

NOVA, Deadly Ascent

NOVA, Descent Into the Ice

NOVA, Dimming the Sun

NOVA, DNA - Secret of Photo 51

NOVA, Dogs and More Dogs

NOVA, Einstein's Big Idea

NOVA, The Elegant Universe

NOVA, Family That Walks on All Fours

NOVA, Fire Wars

NOVA, First Flower

NOVA, The Four-Winged Dinosaur

NOVA, Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

NOVA, Ghost in Your Genes

NOVA, The Ghost Particle

NOVA, Great Escape

NOVA, The Great Inca Rebellion

NOVA, The Great Robot Race

NOVA, Hitler's Lost Sub

NOVA, Hitler's Sunken Secret

NOVA, Hunt for the Supertwister

NOVA, Hurricane Katrina - The Storm that Drowned a City

NOVA, Infinite Secrets

NOVA, Jewel of the Earth

NOVA, Judgment Day - Intelligent Design on Trial

NOVA, The Last Great Ape

NOVA, Life and Death in the War Zone

NOVA, Lost Treasures of Tibet

NOVA, Magnetic Storm

NOVA, Marathon Challenge

NOVA, Mars: Dead or Alive

NOVA, Master of the Killer Ants

NOVA, Minoan Tsunami (w.t.)

NOVA, Missing in MIG Alley

NOVA, Monster of the Milky Way

NOVA, Mountain of Ice

NOVA, The Mummy Who Would Be King

NOVA, Mystery of the Megaflood

NOVA, Mystery of the Megavolcano

NOVA, Nazi Secrets Revealed

NOVA, Newton's Dark Secrets

NOVA, Origins

NOVA, Percy Julian - Forgotten Genius

NOVA, The Perfect Corpse

NOVA, Pocahontas Revealed

NOVA, Runaway Universe

NOVA, Saturn's Titan - Voyage to the Mystery Moon

NOVA, Saving the National Treasures

NOVA, Secrets of the Crocodile Caves

NOVA, Secrets of the Mind

NOVA, Secrets of the Parthenon

NOVA, Secrets of the Samurai Sword

NOVA, Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance

NOVA, Sinking the Supership

NOVA, Solar Energy - Saved by the Sun

NOVA, Spies That Fly

NOVA, Sputnik Declassified

NOVA, Supersonic Dream

NOVA, Tsunami - The Wave that Shook the World

NOVA, Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

NOVA, Underwater Dream Machine

NOVA, The Viking Deception

NOVA, Volcano Above the Clouds

NOVA, Volcano Under the City

NOVA, Welcome to Mars

NOVA, Who Killed the Red Baron?

NOVA, Wings of Madness

NOVA, World in the Balance

NOVA, Wright Brothers' Flying Machine

Rx for Survival

Rx for Survival

Rx for Survival, Rx for Survival and The Heroes Kit

Rx for Survival, Back to the Basics and How Safe Are We?

Rx for Survival, Bird Flu - How Safe Are We?

Rx for Survival, Delivering the Goods and Deadly Messengers

Rx for Survival, Disease Warriors and the Rise of Superbugs

Rx for Survival, The Heroes

A Science Odyssey

A Science Odyssey

A Science Odyssey, Bigger, Better, Faster

A Science Odyssey, In Search of Ourselves

A Science Odyssey, Matters of Life and Death

A Science Odyssey, Mysteries of the Universe

A Science Odyssey, Origins (A Science Odyssey)

A Science Odyssey - Educational Set (620 min. of DVDs)

Walking the Bible

Walking the Bible

Walking the Bible, Single Disc Edition

WGBH Boston Specials

WGBH Boston Special: Sugihara - Conspiracy of Kindness

WGBH Boston Special: The Hidden Epidemic - Heart Disease in America

WGBH Boston Special: They Made America