The Voyager Company was a pioneer in

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production in the 1980s and early 1990s. In partnership with

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, the company published

The Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films." Criterion serves film and media scholars, cinep ...

, a pioneering home video collection of classic and important contemporary films on

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. It was founded in 1984 by four partners: Jon Turell, Bill Becker, Aleen Stein, and Robert Stein in

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, and later moved to New York City. The firm took its name from the Voyager space craft. In 1994, the partnership was diluted by selling 20% of it to the von Holzbrinck Publishing Group, a German holding company. In 1997, the Holzbrinck Group withdrew with its 20%, the name "Voyager," and half of the CD-ROM rights. Robert Stein took the other half of the CD-ROM rights and the Toolkit rights. This left the Criterion Collection in the possession of three of the original partners, each with a third: Aleen Stein, the Becker family, and the Turell family.

Releases

LaserDiscs

* ''De Italia'' * '' The Great Quake of '89'' (in partnership with

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The Complete Truth About De-Evolution ''The Complete Truth About De-Evolution'' was the third home video release by new wave band Devo. It is a collection of Devo's music videos from 1976 to 1990. It was released on LaserDisc in 1993 by Voyager and on DVD by Rhino Records in 2003. ...

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The Residents The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, ''Meet the Residents'' (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music vi ...

Twenty Twisted Questions Twenty Twisted Questions is a 1992 LaserDisc by American avant-garde group " The Residents". It is a compilation of the band's history up to Freak Show, their then multimedia project. The footage was released in Europe as a PAL VHS without the L ...

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CD-ROMs

* '' A Hard Day's Night''
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* ''All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis By

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* ''Amanda Stories''
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* ''Baseball's Greatest Hits''
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* ''The CD Companion To

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's Dissonant Quartet''
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* ''The CD Companion to Dvorak The New World Symphony''
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* ''The CD Companion to

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* ''Cinema Volta – Weird Science & Childhood Memory'' *
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Comic Book Confidential ''Comic Book Confidential'' is an American/Canadian documentary film, released in 1988. Directed by Ron Mann and written by Mann and Charley Lippincott, the film is a survey of the history of the comic book medium in the United States from the 193 ...

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* '' The Complete Maus''
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* ''Count Down'' * '' Criterion Goes to the Movies''
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The Day After Trinity ''The Day After Trinity'' (a.k.a. ''The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb'') is a 1980 documentary film directed and produced by Jon H. Else in association with KTEH public television in San Jose, California. The fil ...

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Dazzleoids Dazzeloids is a 1994 children's CD-ROM game created by Rodney Greenblat, who also made ''PaRappa the Rapper''. It features Anne Dilly Whim, and her team of boredom banishers fighting the forces of mediocrity set by the Mediogre and his geeky assi ...

'' * '' Ephemeral Films 1931–1960'' (incorporating two previously-released titles, ''To New Horizons'' and ''You Can't Get There From Here'')
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* ''Exotic Japan – A Guide to Japanese Culture and Language by Nikki Yokokura'' * '' First Emperor of China''
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* ''First Person: "Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine"''

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* ''First Person:

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* ''First Person:

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* '' For All Mankind''
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* ''If Monks Had Macs...''
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Last Chance to See ''Last Chance to See'' is a 1989 BBC radio documentary series and its accompanying book, written and presented by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. In the series, Adams and Carwardine travel to various locations in the hope of encountering s ...

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Macbeth ''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...

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* ''Our Secret Century: The Darker Side of the American Dream'' (12 discs, 2 unreleased, of films and collateral material from

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) * '' Painters Painting''
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* ''Planetary Taxi'' * ''

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– 20 Amazing Years Of Pop Culture''
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* '' Poetry in Motion''
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* ''Poetry in Motion II'' * ''

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* '' Rodney's Wonder Window'' * '' Sacred and Secular: The Aerial Photography of Marilyn Bridges'' * ''Salt of the Earth: A Film of Politics and Passion'' * ''Shining Flower'' *
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'' * '' The Trout Quintet'' * ''Truths & Fictions – A Journey from Documentary to Digital Photography'' * ''Understanding

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