The Godfather Trilogy - The Coppola Restoration

Throughout his long, wandering, often distinguished career Francis Ford Coppola has made many films that are good and fine, many more that are flawed but undeniably interesting, and a handful of duds that are worth viewing if only because his personality is so flagrantly absent. Yet he is and always shall be known as the man who directed the Godfather films, a series that has dominated and defined their creator in a way perhaps no other director can understand. Coppola has never been able to leave them alone, whether returning after 15 years to make a trilogy of the diptych, or re-editing the first two films into chronological order for a separate video release as The Godfather Saga. The films are America's very own Shakespearean cycle: they tell a tale of a vicious mobster and his extended personal and professional families (once the stuff of righteous moral comeuppance), and they dared to present themselves with an epic sweep and an unapologetically tragic tone. Murder, it turned out, was a serious business. 
 
The Coppola Restoration is a digitally restored edition of The Godfather Trilogy. The restoration was supervised by film preservationist Robert A. Harris. Includes extra features on the restoration and film. They are included on disc 5 of the DVD box set (five discs). Other extras are ported over from Paramount's 2001 DVD release.