Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season Blu-ray

Next year, HBO Home Entertainment will release Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray. The critically acclaimed and Emmy Award-winning series stars Steve Buscemi (Fargo) as Nucky Thompson, the real-life figure who ruled Prohibition-era Atlantic City's criminal and political underworld.

Throughout this first season, Thompson encounters a diverse cast of characters given life by such esteemed performers as Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road), Michael Pitt (Funny Games), Kelly Macdonald (Trainspotting), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), Shea Whigham (The Lincoln Lawyer), Stephen Graham (Gangs of New York), Paz de la Huerta (Enter the Void), Gretchen Mol (Rounders), Dabney Coleman (Domino), and Michael Kenneth Williams (HBO's The Wire).

HBO's long-awaited five-disc Blu-ray set presents all 12 episodes of Season One in their original broadcast aspect ratio of 1.78:1 with 5.1 DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 audio tracks.

The collection also includes a number of bonus features, such as:

• Blu-ray Exclusive Enhanced Viewing option on all episodes
• Six audio commentaries including actors Steve Buscemi, Michael Kenneth Williams, & Michael Shannon; creator/writer/executive producer Terence Winter; director/writer/executive producer Tim Van Patten; writer/supervising producer Howard Korder; and directors Brian Kirk & Allen Coulter
• Evolving Character Dossier feature
• Making Boardwalk Empire featurette
• Creating the Boardwalk featurette
• Atlantic City: The Original Sin City featurette
• Speakeasy Tour featurette

Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season streets on January 10th, 2012. Pre-orders are now available on Amazon.