Warner Home Video has announced that, on January 4, 2011, it will re-release
How the West Was Won on Blu-ray in standard packaging. This Cinerama-shot Western had been released in 2008, in a
two-disc DigiBook edition. However, this re-release has only one disc and hence misses out on the alternate "SmileBox" presentation included in the DigiBook.
Special features include:
- Commentary by filmmaker David Strohmaier, Cinerama Inc. director John Sittig, film historian Rudy Behlmer, music historian Jon Burlingame and stuntman Loren James
- Cinerama Adventure: bonus movie documentary about the revolutionary movie exhibition process
- Theatrical trailer
Those who want the two-disc edition in a conventional case can still turn to the
UK edition (with the caveat that British Blu-ray cases are usually thicker).