4K UHD, Blu-ray, Digital Release: Air America Steelbook

4K UHD/Blu-ray/Digital Release Date: June 10, 2025
Price: 4K UHD/Blu-ray/Digital $34.99
Studio: Lionsgate


The 1990 action comedy Air America directed by Roger Spottiswoode (Under Fire) and starring Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man 2) and Mel Gibson (Dragged Across Concrete), arrived on 4K UHD this week!

In 1969, despite having just had his Los Angeles pilot’s license revoked, Billy Covington (Downey Jr.) is hired by Air America, the titular clandestine airline operating out of Laos run by the CIA. He soon discovers that his mission is to covertly transport illicit goods in and out of Southeast Asia and that his copilot will be the wild-flying Gene Ryack (Gibson). But when Covington begins expressing doubt about the dubious morality of their operation, the two hotheaded pilots become at odds.

The discs come fully loaded with bonus features, including the following:

  • Documentary: Revisiting Air America
  • Documentary: Flight Log
  • Short Interviews with cast and crew
  • The storyboards of Air America
  • Feature Clips, Making Of Featurette, Theatrical Trailer, Trailer 2024
  • Commentary by screenwriter John Eskow
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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.