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 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 DVDs have been made accessible with captions and video description (the DVDs do not include the audio navigation/talking-menu system):

40 Year Old Virgin (Universal Home Video, available wherever DVDs are sold) **Please note that the description is included on the RATED DVD ONLY.

Arthur, Binky Goes Nuts (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Between the Lions, Between the Lions Season I (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Between the Lions, Farmer Ken's Puzzle (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Between the Lions, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy? (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Between the Lions, Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Between the Lions, Shooting Stars (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Between the Lions, The Chap with Caps and More Set (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Between the Lions, The Hopping Hen and More (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Between the Lions, The Popcorn Popper (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Between the Lions, To the Ship, To the Ship! (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Cinderella Man (Universal Home Video, available wherever DVDs are sold)

Evan Almighty (Universal Home Video, available wherever DVDs are sold)

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, Anna Karenina (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, Bertie & Elizabeth: The Story of King George and Queen Elizabeth (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, The Blackheath Poisonings (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, Frenchman's Creek (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, Oliver Twist (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, Warrior Queen (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Inside Man (Universal Home Video, available wherever DVDs are sold)

Knocked Up (Universal Home Video, available wherever DVDs are sold)

Munich (DreamWorks SKG, Universal Home Video, available wherever DVDs are sold)

Mystery!, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Set (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Great Deliverance (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Mrs. Bradley Mysteries Series Pilot & (Series 1) Set (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Mrs. Bradley Mysteries Set (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Speedy Death (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Second Sight 1 (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Second Sight 2 (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Second Sight 1 & 2 (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Touching Evil 2: A Pupil of Murder (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Touching Evil 2: The Caregiver (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Touching Evil 2: What Price a Child (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Touching Evil 2 Set (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Mystery!, Touching Evil 3 (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, A Daring Flight (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, America's Stone Age Explorers (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Battle of the X-Planes (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Battle Plan Under Fire (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Bird Flu - How Safe Are We? (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, The Boldest Hoax (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Crash of Flight 111 (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Cuttlefish - Kings of Camouflage (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, The Deadliest Plane Crash (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Deadly Ascent (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Descent Into the Ice (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Dimming Sun (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Dogs and More Dogs (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Einstein's Big Idea (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, The Elegant Universe (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Family That Walks on All Fours (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Fire Wars (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, First Flower (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Galileo's Battle for the Heavens (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, The Ghost Particle (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Great Escape (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, The Great Robot Race (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Hitler's Lost Sub (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Hitler's Sunken Secret (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Hunt for the Supertwister (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Hurricane Katrina - The Storm that Drowned a City (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Infinite Secrets (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Jewel of the Earth (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Judgment Day - Intelligent Design on Trial (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Life and Death in the War Zone (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Lost Treasures of Tibet (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Magnetic Storm (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Marathon Challenge (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Mars: Dead or Alive (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Master of the Killer Ants (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Missing in MIG Alley (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Monster of the Milky Way (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Mountain of Ice (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, The Mummy Who Would Be King (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Mystery of the Megaflood (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Mystery of the Megavolcano (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Nazi Secrets Revealed (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Newton's Dark Secrets (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Origins (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Percy Julian - Forgotten Genius (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, The Perfect Corpse (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Pocahontas Revealed (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Runaway Universe (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Saving the National Treasures (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Secrets of the Crocodile Caves (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Secrets of the Mind (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Secrets of the Samurai Sword (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Sinking the Supership (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Solar Energy - Saved by the Sun (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Spies That Fly (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Supersonic Dream (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Tsunami - The Wave that Shook the World (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Underwater Dream Machine (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, The Viking Deception (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Volcano Above the Clouds (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Volcano Under the City (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Welcome to Mars (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Who Killed the Red Baron? (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Wings of Madness (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, World in the Balance (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

NOVA, Wright Brothers' Flying Machine (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

The Passion of the Christ (Twentieth Century Fox Home Video, avaialble wherever DVDs are sold)

Ray - Enhanced with DVS® (Ray "DVS Enhanced" Universal Home Studios Video, available on amazon.com, walmart.com and through Walmart's toll free number: 1-800-966-6546) The film's star Jamie Foxx and the director Taylor Hackford have been honored with the American Council of the Blind's Media Access Award for their efforts.

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

Rx for Survival (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Rx for Survival, The Heroes (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Rx for Survival, Walking the Bible (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

A Science Odyssey (560 min. of DVDs) (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

A Science Odyssey - Educational Set (620 min. of DVDs (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

Sugihara - Conspiracy of Kindness (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

United 93 (Universal Home Video, available wherever DVDs are sold)

WGBH Boston Special: The Hidden Epidemic - Heart Disease in America (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

WGBH Boston Special: They Made America (WGBH Boston Video, available from http://www.shopwgbh.org, or 1-800-255-9231)

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)