The very first official Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Vittorio De Sica's neo-realist classic was also notable for long being unavailable on DVD but that's now been remedied, thanks to Entertainment One. "It's a blistering portrayal of a critical period of time, created in the midst of it, and yet tapping into something fundamentally human, and thus still effective even decades later," writes DVDTalk's Jamie S. Rich. "The technique is as important as the story itself, but De Sica is so good, the famous aesthetics all but disappear in the telling."