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Paramount Home Entertainment

On July 6, 1994, 'Forrest Gump' arrived in theaters and became a box office behemoth (earning almost $1 billion worldwide in today’s dollars).

Garin Pirnia








Ian Holm and Sarah Polley in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997).

Oscar-winning horror flicks. Best Picture-nominated cartoons. Emerging independent filmmakers. Moviemaking legends creating some of the best work of their careers. The 1990s had it all.

Eric D Snider




Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Spike Lee’s incendiary profile of racial tension and police overreaction bristled in the veins of moviegoers when it landed in theaters in the summer of 1989.

Scott Beggs