Orlando Bloom as Balian leads his knights into battle in "Kingdom of Heaven." The DVD release includes 50 minutes of additional footage.

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Cheaper by the Dozen 2

It was bad enough that Hollywood had to defame the name of a nice, old comic drama — 1950's "Cheaper by the Dozen" — with the 2003 update that borrowed the title but replaced the original's heart with bad slapstick and cloying kids. Now we get another dose of Steve Martin in his lamest big-studio mode, returning as patriarch of a brood of 12 children, including Hilary Duff and Tom Welling of "Smallville."The DVD has a couple of featurettes and commentary by director Adam Shankman. Rated PG.

Transamerica

Felicity Huffman delivers one of last year's best performances and one of the finest gender-bending turns ever as a man about to become a woman, whose final preparations for sex-change surgery are sidetracked when a previously unknown son appears on the scene. Writer-director Duncan Tucker offers DVD commentary and joins with Huffman and co-star Kevin Zegers in two separate conversations about the film. The disc also has Dolly Parton's music video for her Academy Award-nominated song "Travelin' Through." R.

Kingdom of Heaven

As if we really needed a three-hour-plus version of Ridley Scott's historical snoozer that tanked last year. This new four-disc set pads the Crusades epic starring Orlando Bloom with about 50 minutes of extra footage. Scott offers an introduction and teams with Bloom and many of his behind-the-scenes collaborators for commentary. The set also has two full discs of background material documenting the movie from conception through its release. R.

Memorial Day releases

"The Dirty Dozen" — Lee Marvin and his team of cutthroats, including Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland, are drafted to take out Nazi leaders in a commando raid preceding D-Day in the 1967 hit. The two-disc set is packed with documentary segments and includes 1985's "The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission," with Marvin and Ernest Borgnine reprising their roles. Not rated.

"Patton," "The Longest Day," "Tora! Tora! Tora!" — Three military favorites return in two-disc updates, featuring George C. Scott in his brilliant portrayal of Gen. George Patton, a star-studded cast in the D-Day saga "The Longest Day" and the Oscar-winning visual effects of the Pearl Harbor epic "Tora! Tora! Tora!" New DVD extras include an introduction and commentary for "Patton" by co-writer Francis Ford Coppola. Not rated.

"The Goebbels Experiment" — Kenneth Branagh narrates this fascinating documentary on Joseph Goebbels, the fanatic spin doctor who orchestrated Adolf Hitler's propaganda and the brainwashing of a generation of Germans. Branagh reads from diaries Goebbels wrote from 1924-45, the dialogue accompanied by rare footage from German film and TV archives. Not rated.

Other new releases

"Viridiana" — "The Da Vinci Code" is not the only troublesome tale for the Vatican. Luis Buñuel's 1961 film, about a nun whose religious ideals are dragged through the muck by her lustful uncle, was denounced by the church. The DVD includes an interview with the film's star, Silvia Pinal, and an essay by Buñuel scholar Michael Wood. Not rated. "Deadwood: The Complete Second Season" — Expletives fill the air in the drama about an Old West town teetering between lawlessness and civilization. A six-disc set includes year two's 12 episodes whose cast includes Timothy Olyphant as an upright lawman and Ian McShane as a lovably depraved brothel owner and town kingpin. Not rated.