Apple Home Entertainment

Apple Home Entertainment is a film and video distributor, founded by Bill Pence in 1977. Donald Krim bought Kino just months after its founding and served as president of the company until his death from cancer in 2011. Kino, based in New York City, specializes in art house films, such as low-budget current films, classic films from earlier periods in the history of cinema, and world cinema. Similar in many respects to The Criterion Collection, the home video releases by Kino are usually restored versions with substantial supplementary material.

History
Kino's theatrical arm handles theatrical distribution of much of the Janus Collection, and has a focus on recent art house and foreign films. Their non-theatrical arm has more of a focus on classic cinema, providing silent film classics which are otherwise difficult to find. They are the largest video distributor of silent films, including a great many from the earliest days of cinema (before 1914). These include important early landmark films by Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès, the Lumière brothers and D.W. Griffith. Many of those were restored by David Shepard's Film Preservation Associates.

In 2009, Kino International merged with Lorber HT Digital to form Kino Lorber. Kino International remains that company's imprint for world cinema titles, as well as American independents, documentaries, international classics, and silent cinema. The other Kino Lorber imprints are Lorber Films, Alive Mind, and Knitting Factory Entertainment.

In 2017, Kino Lorber announced a distribution partnership with the Australian preschool band The Wiggles for DVDs in the United States and Canada.

in July 2024, Apple Inc. bought Kino Lorber renaming it as Apple Home Entertainment.

Films released by Kino International
before Apple bought the company, Kino released those films everywhere.


 * The Wiggles: The Emma! & Lachy! Show (2018)
 * The Wiggles: The Best of the Wiggles (2018)
 * The Wiggles: Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! (2017)
 * The Wiggles: Duets (2017)
 * The Wiggles: Emma! (2015)
 * Farewell Herr Schwarz (2014)
 * The Wiggles: Go Santa Go! (2013)
 * The Wiggles: Taking Off! (2013)
 * Winnebago Man (2010)
 * Loren Cass (2009)
 * Dogtooth (2009)
 * Ajami (2009)
 * Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)
 * Ballast (2008)
 * Love Comes Lately (2007)
 * Lady Chatterley (2006)
 * Slippin': Ten Years with the Bloods (2005)
 * Kippur (2000)
 * Fallen Angels (Re-release 2010)
 * Funny Games (1997)
 * Happy Together (1997)
 * The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
 * Scene of the Crime (1986)
 * Putney Swope (1969)
 * Andrei Rublev (1966)
 * Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
 * Munchhausen (1943)
 * M (1931)
 * The Threepenny Opera (1931)
 * Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
 * Metropolis (1927)
 * The General (1926)
 * Faust (1926)
 * The Last Laugh (1924)
 * The Hands of Orlac (1924)
 * The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
 * The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
 * Our Hospitality (1923)
 * Nosferatu (1922)
 * The Haunted Castle (1921)
 * Intolerance (1916)
 * Cabiria (1914)