The Best College Essentials 2025

1. Life Begins in College [1937]

This musical release from Leonard Cohen captures live performances and interviews.

2. Steamboat Bill, Jr./College [2 Discs]

Directed by Abby Epstein and produced by Ricki Lake, this documentary follows the women as they explore birth practices in the U.S., particularly in New York City. The two take a scathing look at the hospital system in a nation that has the second-highest infant mortality rate of any industrialized nation and compare it practices in Europe and Asia.

3. 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship

4. Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities [2017]

This box set features all 8 episodes of the gripping mini-series, telling the dramatic true story of the FBI's hunt for the deadliest serial bomber in history, and the criminal profiler who pioneered the use of forensic linguistics to identify and ultimately capture the Unabomber.

5. Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges Anduniversities [Blu-ray] [2017]

This box set features all 8 episodes of the gripping mini-series, telling the dramatic true story of the FBI's hunt for the deadliest serial bomber in history, and the criminal profiler who pioneered the use of forensic linguistics to identify and ultimately capture the Unabomber.

6. So This Is College [1929]

7. Sex Kittens Go to College [1960]

8. Live at Luther College [LP] - VINYL

This double feature comprises of two classic Cantinflas comedies. In El Barrendero, city maintenance worker Don Napo (Cantinflas) discovers a series of strange items in his garbage, creating a chain reaction of strange events that sees him coming face-to-face with a set of criminals. In Gran Hotel, a down-on-his-luck bellboy (Cantinflas) discovers a buglar in the hotel, only to fall prey to temporary amnesia.

9. College Park [LP] - VINYL

10. College Coach [DVD] [1933]