Videoheaven – Watch the trailer for the new video store documentary

Socio-cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread; the video rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies.

With narration by Maya Hawke over footage culled from hundreds of sources (from TV commercials to blockbuster films), Alex Ross Perry’s VIDEOHEAVEN tells the story of an industry’s glorious, confusing, novel, sometimes seedy, but undeniably seismic impact on American movie culture.

The film was inspired by Daniel Herbert’s book Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store.

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Thanks to FirstShowing for the heads up.

Videoheaven opens in select US cinemas on 2nd July 2025.