DVD Release: Catherine the Great

DVD Release Date: Nov. 3, 2020
Price: DVD $22.99
Studio: HBO/Warner Archive


Oscar-winner Helen Mirren (Woman in Gold) and Jason Clarke (Winchester) star in the HBO historical drama mini-series Catherine the Great, about the tumultuous monarch and politician who ruled the Russian empire and transformed its place in the world in the 18th century.

The four-part miniseries charts Catherine’s reign as the intelligent, resourceful, and utterly determined Empress who fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire, and expands Russia’s borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea.

A sweeping epic, the miniseries also depicts the love affair between Catherine and Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin (Clarke), this most extraordinary woman and man of their age who formed a singular and powerful relationship, turned the nation into a great global power, and shaped the future of Russian politics.

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.