Hitting the shelves worldwide this week is one of the most eagerly awaited DVD releases of all time : The Godfather trilogy is finally brought to our favorite medium in a remarkable international five-disc set. Kicking off our celebratory first anniversary week, we bring you full reviews of all three movies in the collection, and a separate review of the fifth disc full of extras.

The Godfather: The movie that put director Francis Ford Coppola's career into hyperdrive, The Godfather remains one of the true masterpiees of American cinema, as well as one of the most influential gangster movies ever made.

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The Godfather Part II: A sequel that bravely expands and further explores the themes and backgrounds of the original, with the cast digging more deeply into their characters and the production's epic scope reaching ever farther.

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The Godfather Part III: The belated third instalment in the trilogy hardly forms an essential part of the story, which was brought to its natural conclusion at the end of Part II. Clearly the work of a director past his prime, the third movie does hold a few sequences that are impressive in the tradition of the first two films.

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The Extra Features: On top of the impressive audio commentary tracks Francis Ford Coppola provides for all three movies, an entire fifth disc full of extras completes this great five-disc collection. Featuring nearly an hour of great deleted scenes and a 75-minute documentary, this disc holds more extras than most people can handle in a single sitting.

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