Stocking up your Blu-ray collection for the colder months? August brought us a bumper pack of 4K, standard, and Collector’s Edition releases. Between Exit 8, Nightcrawler, and Project Hail Mary, there’s barely space to give the eyes a break, especially if you’re feasting on all those bonus features as well.
In the horror world, Barbarian and a three-disc The Thing collection will keep us going until Halloween, while classics like Harlan County USA, Nightcrawler, and The Stunt Man have all had their own 4K remasters for the modern age as well.
Dozens of new Blu-rays are released every month, so to save your shelves we’re rounding up the top titles you need to know about from August 2026. This is a top-down view based on Rotten Tomatoes scores (but with a few honorable mentions thrown in further down the page as well), so you know the best Blu-ray releases of the month. Don’t forget to hit the ‘view details’ button to see each score and full bonus feature information as well.
Top 12 Blu-ray releases in August 2026
Barbara Kopple’s documentary of the Brookside Strike made its way to Blu-Ray for the first time in August 2026. Criterion Collection’s 4K special edition was supervised by Kopple throughout the restoration process and comes with Kopple’s audio commentary, a making-of documentary, outtakes, interviews with Hazel Dickens and John Sayles, a 2005 Sundance panel discussion, and the trailer.
Critics: 100%
Audience: 92%
Your Name. received its limited edition Steelbook 4K Blu-ray last month, bringing Makoto Shinkai’s fantasy romance to a two-disc special release. This is the latest in a long line of Blu-ray options, but the new version brings a full 4K remaster to the US for the first time. Extras include a TV special aired in Japan dedicated to the animation, an interview with Makoto Shinkai, a brand new behind the scenes documentary, a piece devoted to Shinkai’s wider filmography, textless opening credits, and promotional materials.
Critics: 98%
Audience: 95%
Nightcrawler has already had a 4K steelbook release earlier in the year and this Collector’s Edition uses the same remaster with the same additional extras, just different cover art. Still, you’re getting a Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos release here, with audio commentaries from Joe von Appen as well as Dan Gilroy, Tony Gilroy, and John Gilroy, an interview with composer James Newton Howard, and a making-of special.
Critics: 95%
Audience: 86%
One of the more recent releases in this month’s roster, Project Hail Mary’s official Blu-ray hit the shelves last month. Available in both standard 1080p and 4K (though the Steelbook version is coming in October), bonus features include a dedicated look at Rocky, director commentary by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and deleted scenes.
Critics: 95%
Audience: 95%
Zach Cregger’s 2022 horror hits the shelves in the form of a 4K combo with steelbook and digital edition in tow as well. They’re packaged up with Dolby Vision, HDR10 and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. Additional features come in the form of a director, cast, and crew discussion of the movie’s horror, commentary by Zach Cregger and producer Roy Lee, and deleted scenes.
Critics: 92%
Audience: 70%
The viral video game adaptation Exit 8 has hit Blu-ray, with a standard release landing on August 4. The release comes with a making of documentary and a Q&A with writer / director Genki Kawamura.
Critics: 91%
Audience: 86%
1980’s The Stunt Man gets its first 4K Blu-ray release following the standard edition published 15 years ago. The film has been restored to 4K directly from negative, enhanced with Dolby Vision HDR, and viewers have the choice between 5.1 DTS Surround or the original uncompressed track.
There’s a whole roster of additional extras here as well; separate audio commentaries from Richard Rush, Peter O’Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Alex Rocco, Sharon Ferrell and Chuck Bail, and critics Christina Newland and Monica Castillo, a making-of documentary, an interview with Chuck Bail, archive interviews with Richard Rush, Peter O’Toole, Steve Railsback, and Barbara Hershey, a Q&A with Rush, Railsback, and Hershey, and deleted scenes.
Critics: 90%
Audience: 73%
Paul Greengrass’s 2006 account of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 got its first 4K remaster last month, but this combo also includes the standard Blu-ray and a digital copy. Upscaled, rather than restored, in Dolby Vision and HDR10, the disc comes with the same bonuses as the previous standard edition release; director commentary, documentary features United 93: The Families and the Film and Chasing Planes: Witnesses to 9/11, featurettes Twin Towers and Flight 93 National Memorial, and additional memorial material.
Critics: 90%
Audience: 83%
A 4K remaster of 1996’s The Peoplle vs. Larry Flynt, this Limited Edition release comes with a reversible sleeve and collector’s booklet. The two-disc package features original stereo audio and DTS-HS MA 5.2 surround sound, Dolby Vision / HDR10 4K remastering, as well as bonus features in the form of commentaries by Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, and Edward Norton as well as screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.
Disc two also includes new interviews with Woody Harrelson, Columbia Pictures’ Lisa Henson and Janet Yang, and screenriters Alexander and Karaszewski. Archived features include interviews with Philippe Rousselot and Miloš Forman, a making-of documentary, “Larry Flynt Exposed”, and deleted scenes.
Critics: 89%
Audience: 80%
Criterion Collections has added a 4K remaster of 1995’s Safe to its collection, with Dolby Vision / HDR10 support. This one’s just for the looks, with no new additional extras on the disc, but you’re still getting director commentary, a featurette conversation between Todd Haynes and Julianne Moor, short film The Suicide, and an interview with Christine Vachon.
Critics: 87%
Audience: 75%
This bumper pack includes the original 1951 The Thing From Another World as well as John Carpenter’s 1982 The Thing remake and 2011’s prequel. The three-disc special comes in 1080p, with 1982’s entry offering commentary from Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. 2011’s The Thing also includes deleted scenes, commentary from Matthijs Heijningen and Eric Newman as well as featurettes The Thing Evolves and Fire & Ice.
Critics: 85%
Audience: 92%
Oliver Stone’s JFK has had its fair share of Blu-ray releases over the years, but the latest hit the shelves in August, offering the theatrical cut in 4K UHD. If you don’t want the full director’s cut this is your 4K option, then, again with full 4K restoration from film negatives and Dolby Vision support. The disc also comes with director commentary.
Critics: 85%
Audience: 88%
Honorable mentions
Bonus Features:
Unrated cuts
“25 Years Later” commentary
Deleted scenes
Line-O-Rama 2.0
Interviews with Ricky & Jean
Raw takes
Adam McKay’s video diaries
Auditions
Director & Friends commentary
Gag reel
“Will Ferrell returns to Talladega”
Bonus race footage
“Walker & Texas Ranger”
Ricky and Cal’s Commercials and PSAs
Critics: 71%
Audience: 73%
Bonus Features:
“A conversation with Cecilia Ahern”
“The Name of the Game is Snaps”
Alternate scenes
“Same Mistake,” James Blunt – music video
Critics: 25%
Audience: 80%
Bonus Features:
New interviews (Jonthan Gems, Chris Lebenzon, Pete Suschitzky, Michael Fink and more
SFX/VFS interviews
Critics: 57%
Audience: 53%
For more tips on making the most of your shelf space, check out Rosalie’s top tips for starting a Blu-ray collection.
