Battlestar Galactica : the miniseries
(Video)

A remake of the 1978 television series created by Glen A. Larson.

Originally broadcast by the Sci-Fi Channel in 2003.

[This miniseries] was the first part of the Battlestar Galactica remake based on the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series, and served as a backdoor pilot for the 2004 television series.

Special features: Making-of featurette; Battlestar Galactica: the lowdown; deleted scenes; audio commentary.

Director of photography, Joel Ransom ; music by Richard Gibbs ; edited by Dany Cooper ; costume designer, Deborah Everton ; production designer, Richard Hudolin.

Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Callum Keith Rennie, Grace Park, Michael Hogan, Matthew Bennett, Paul Campbell, Aaron Douglas, Lorena Gale, Barclay Hope, Kandyse McClure, Alessandro Juliani, Nicki Clyne, Tahmoh Penikett.

It's been 40 years since the 12 colonies of mankind have heard from their progeny, the Cylons -- robotic creatures who rose up and declared war on their masters, then disappeared. In a sudden, devastating strike, the Cylons return and lay waste to the colonies, aided by human-looking Cylon variants and an unwitting fifth columnist. The attack forces Commander William Adama to call into action his museum-piece warship, the Battlestar Galactica, and soon its company of hotshot fighter pilots is blasting away at the invaders. But their best efforts can't prevent the colonies' obliteration. Fleeing the Cylon genocide, the Galactica leads a rag-tag fleet of survivors on a lonely quest to find humanity's fabled 13th colony -- a planet known as Earth.

Not rated.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 (English, French), Dolby Digital 2.0 (Spanish); double-sided disc.

English, dubbed French, or dubbed Spanish dialogue; optional English SDH, Spanish or French subtitles; closed-captioned.