‘We Are Marshall’

(AP) – With football season comes the release of last year’s gridiron tale of tragedy turned to resilience as a college sports town rebounds from unthinkable adversity. Based on the true story that took place at West Virginia’s Marshall University in the 1970s, the film stars Matthew McConaughey as a coach who takes over the college’s football program after a plane crash kills most of the team and coaching staff, quickly rebuilding the squad with inexperienced players and putting the school back into competition. Matthew Fox, Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie and David Strathairn co-star. The movie is accompanied by a segment with real coaches discussing how their teams overcame adversity. Along with the standard DVD release, the movie comes in high-definition formats as a Blu-ray disc or a combination disc with the HD DVD and standard DVD versions. (Warner Bros.)