List of best-selling films in the United States
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film titles sold in the United States. This list only includes physical media (such as VHS,
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and
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), and does not include digital purchases or
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Best-selling films

This is a list of the best-selling film titles sold in the United States across all physical
home video Home video is prerecorded media sold or rented for home viewing. The term originates from the VHS and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats such as DVD, Blu-ray and streaming me ...
formats, including VHS,
DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind ...
, and
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(BD).


Best-selling films by format


VHS

This is a list of the best-selling VHS titles in the United States.


DVD

This is a list of the best-selling
DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind ...
titles in the United States.


Blu-ray

This is a list of the best-selling
Blu-ray Disc The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and c ...
(BD) titles in the United States.


LaserDisc

This is a list of the best-selling
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(LD) titles in the United States.


UMD

This is a list of the best-selling films on
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's proprietary
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(UMD) format for the
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(PSP) platform in the United States.


Best-selling films by year

This is a list of the best-selling video titles sold on physical media (including VHS, DVD and Blu-ray) in the United States by year.


1984–1985


1988–1996


1993–1995


1996–1997


2006


2007


2008


2009


2010


2011


2012


2013


2014


2015


2016


2017


2018


2019


2020


2021


Best-selling film series (VHS)


See also

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List of highest-grossing films in the United States The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada, a market known in the film industry as the "North American box office", and where "gross" is defined in US dollars. Not adjusted for inflation This is a list ...
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List of best-selling albums in the United States This is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album mus ...
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Walt Disney Classics Walt Disney Classics (also known as The Classics from Walt Disney Home Video) is a discontinued video line launched by Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company to release Disney animated features on home video. The last title i ...


References

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Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...