Kino Lorber Unveils January Releases Including Oscar-Nominated Documentaries, International Television & More

Kino Lorber has unveiled some of the details of their January 2025 Blu-Ray and DVD releases from their Kino Lorber, MHz Choice, Cohen Media Group, Greenwich Entertainment, and Virgil Films imprints. Get all the details on this incredible lineup below:

SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT

Street Date: 1/7/25

Synopsis: United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.

Bonus Features: Q&A Panel With Director Johan Grimonprez (Courtesy Of The International Documentary Association) | Trailers

LET’S GET LOST

Street Date: 1/7/25 

Synopsis: Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives, and his children in what turned out to be the last year of his life. Winner of the 1989 Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award, Let‘s Get Lost has become an important document in the career of the filmmaker on the life of a jazz legend. Since its release in 1989 Let‘s Get Lost has introduced a whole new generation of jazz enthusiasts to the timeless talent of the late Chet Baker.

Bonus Features: Short Films by Bruce Weber: Backyard Movie, Beauty Brothers, Gentle Giants, Liberty City is Like Paris to Me, The Teddy Boys of the Edwardian Drape Society, Wine and Cupcakes | Theatrical Trailer

MASTER CRIMES

Street Date: 2/4/25 (DVD Only)

Synopsis: Master Crimes is the latest hit series from prolific television writer and showrunner Elsa Marpeau (Captain Marleau, Alexandra Ehle and The Island of 30 Coffins). This six-episode light and frothy police procedural follows two very different Parisian women as they come together to solve a series of six different, violent and perplexing crimes. Veteran French actress Muriel Robin (Call My Agent!and Captain Marleau) is Louise Arbus, an eccentric, exasperating, brilliant and immaculately groomed psycho-criminology professor at the Sorbonne. Arbus’ real-life wife, Anne Le Nen (Antigone 34) is Captain Barbara Delandre, a hyperactive yet practical law enforcement professional who always plays it by the book. Louise’s skills are first called upon when a line from one of her books is found printed across a victim’s back. She quickly assembles her investigative dream team made up of herself and four of her students, each with their own special skills that they bring to the table to help find the killer. Their eccentric approach to the investigation frustrates Captain Delandre and they quickly become her worst nightmare. Master Crimes is Elsa Marpeau’s master class in great TV that’s hugely entertaining and packed with fascinating characters.

MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Street Date: 1/14/25

Synopsis: A century after Alfred Hitchcock’s first film, he remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today’s society? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Eyes of Orson Welles, and The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of his own voice. As Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his vast career – his vivid silent films, the legendary films of the 1950s and 60s and his later works – in playful and revealing ways.

Bonus Features: Alternate trailer with narration by Mark Cousins | Audio of Alastair McGowan’s voice test | Cinema Q&A with Chuck Rose: Interview with Director Mark Cousins | Graphics animation tests | Mark Cousins introduces Notorious, Rope, and Saboteur

TO DYE FOR: THE DOCUMENTARY

Street Date: 1/21/25 (DVD Only)

Synopsis: After discovering their child’s life-altering sensitivity to synthetic dyes, parents and first-time filmmakers set out to uncover the impacts of these additives. They journey to meet with the world’s leading synthetic dye experts, conducting in-person interviews with scientists, researchers, and impacted families. This exploration reveals a series of shocking stories and surprising discoveries.

Bonus Features: Trailers

SEPARATED

Street Date: 1/21/25 (DVD Only)

Synopsis: Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family’s plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Bonus Features: Trailers

THE COWBOY AND THE QUEEN

Street Date: 1/28/25 (DVD Only)

Synopsis: Monty Roberts, a nonviolent horse trainer who rejected traditional “breaking” methods, forms an unlikely friendship with Queen Elizabeth II. Bonding over their shared love for animals, they overcome Monty’s doubters to broadcast his gentle approach globally. From Academy Award® Nominee Andrea Nevins, this uplifting film shows how trust can build a better world for both horses and humans.

Bonus Features: Trailers