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Streaming services may be all the rage these days — and any cinephile should be thrilled to get a FilmStruck subscription for the holidays — but physical media lives on! Loaded with incredible special features and presented in immaculate fashion (you haven’t seen “A Charlie Brown Christmas” until you’ve seen it in 4K Ultra HD), the season’s most exciting new DVDs and Blu-rays are here to remind you why the best presents are the ones you can put on your shelf. When the wi-fi goes out at your parents’ house over the holidays, you’re going to be really happy that you have these discs under the proverbial tree. Here are the 10 best DVDs and Blu-rays to get for the film or TV obsessive in your life this season.

100 Years of Olympic Films: Criterion Collection

There are box sets, and then there are box sets. …And then, in a world all its own, there’s the Criterion Collection’s “100 Years of Olympic Films,” a treasure trove so heavy that picking it up feels like an Olympic event unto itself. Criterion’s biggest release ever, this absolute beast of a bundle contains 53 movies that span 41 Olympiads, chronicling a century of sports in a way that doubles as a remarkable document of the 20th century, and the history of film itself. These aren’t just collated snippets of footage from the Olympics, they’re genuine works of art, crafted by everyone from Leni Riefenstahl and Kon Ichikawa to Carlos Saura and Bud Greenspan. The package includes a handsomely illustrated 216-page hardcover book, new scores for the silent titles, and enough content (6,253 minutes) to keep your favorite sports fan busy until Pyeongchang 2018. — DE

“Dunkirk”

Yes, “Dunkirk” was made to be watched in movie theaters (and on 70mm), but short of Christopher Nolan coming to your house and projecting his personal cut against your living room wall, this Blu-ray will be the best way of experiencing his radical WWII epic. The home video edition of Nolan’s best film and likely future Oscar-winner is stuffed to the gills with special features, all of which are naturally divided into three sections: “Land,” “Air,” and “Sea.” Given how remarkable the production of this movie was, it’s easy to imagine how these supplements could be almost as entertaining as the movie itself, offering incredible insight into how Nolan’s team flew an ancient warplane with an IMAX camera in the cockpit, and maybe what the hell was happening in this photo. — DE

Fritz Lang: The Silent FIlms

An 11-disc set that offers the complete roster of the formative, timeless, and staggeringly rich silent films that Fritz Lang made before “M” in 1931. For less than $100, you get to give someone a gift that includes “Metropolis,” the “Dr. Mabuse” films, “Harakiri,” and even the one about astronauts who go digging for gold on the moon. But the movies themselves are just the start of it, as eight of the 11 discs are entirely devoted to special features, including audio commentaries and feature-length documentaries about the history and production of these expressionist masterworks. This is the perfect present for anyone who cares about cinema’s past. Or, for that matter, anyone who just wants to put on a perfect movie and enjoy the best of what the medium has to offer. — DE

The Peanuts Holiday Collection

Consider the newly-issued Peanuts Holiday Collection your go-to audio-visual accompaniment for any and all holidays, as the remastered package (for 4K! Snoopy loves advancements in technology!) includes classic Peanuts entertainment for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. No longer will you need to scan your trusty cable guide to find live airings of the beloved episodes, now you can watch them whenever your holiday-loving heart desires. And it’s not just ease that makes this package so appealing, it’s also the overwhelming quality of this addition, which boasts rich colors that look as if they were hand-painted yesterday, as vital and fresh as any Peanuts fan could ask for. And while the holiday-leaning offerings are the most initially intriguing, the collection includes plenty of supplementary episodes too, including the world’s most unexpected (and often forgotten) “Flashdance” tribute, “It’s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown.” Now that’s something worth celebrating. — KE

“Personal Shopper” Criterion Collection

One of the best and most beguiling films of 2017, Olivier Assayas’ latest masterpiece isn’t exactly the breezy rom-com that its title might suggest, but don’t let that stop you from adding it to your cart. An art house thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a Paris-based personal shopper who moonlights as a medium in a desperate effort to make contact with her dead twin brother (!!), this strange foray into the supernatural reinvents the ghost story for the 21st century. Those looking for cheap genre thrills may be disappointed, but there’s so much more to see in this ineffably powerful story about how technology shapes the way we remember the dead. Also, a phantom does projectile scream-vomit some ectoplasm on Stewart, so it’s not like this thing is completely dry. “Personal Shopper” may not exactly scream holiday viewing, but it’s the kind of movie that the cinephile in your life will want to own for all eternity, and the beauty of a DVD or Blu-Ray is that you can hang on to it for the rest of your life (and possibly even after that). — DE

The Planet Earth Collection

Discern all the shades of pink in a flock of courting flamingos. Or perhaps cheer on an iguana as it flees for its life from a group of snakes. Or swim lazily with a three-toed sloth as it attempts to find a mate. Whichever animal adventure you choose, be sure to share it with a loved one.

The original BBC series is still stunning and worth watching for any lover of animals and nature, but the sequel series a decade later has been able to previously unobtainable footage thanks to advances in technology and lots of dedication and patience. Whether it’s cameras flown on drones to capture millions of chinstrap penguins leaping off cliffs, or motion-triggered camera traps that were able to get footage of rare snow leopards, this 4K visual experience is breathtaking, moving, and incredibly humbling. And while the imagery is dramatic, it’s the Emmy-nominated score that makes it sublime. — HN

Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years. Vol 1 Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies

Possibly the coolest and most anarchic filmmaker who ever lived, the late, great Seijun Suzuki left behind a body of work that’s riddled with bullets and posed with a middle finger sticking up for all to see. Diced up and digested through the work of modern auteurs like Quentin Tarantino and Sion Sono, Suzuki’s brash punk bravado has shaped how audiences think of stylized violence. And yet, only his most iconic films (e.g. “Tokyo Drifter, “Branded to Kill”) have been widely available to American viewers. That all changes with this awesome box set from Arrow Video, which collects five of Suzuki’s wild early Nikkatsu titles about young love and high school hoodlums and carnival troupes and whatever else he could stuff in there for good measure. — DE

“Twin Peaks: The Return”

For diehard “Twin Peaks” fans (and is there really any other kind?), the new season’s summer-long Showtime run was really just a prelude to the main event: Owning the episodes in some sort of physical form so that they can be obsessed over forever. Only now that you can watch Dougie Jones in 1080p while pausing to read excerpts from “Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier” and cross-referencing every shot to a moment from the behind-the-scenes footage can the show be truly enjoyed. The physical release of “Twin Peaks: The Return” comes bundled with six hours of additional content, including 10 short films, a ton of featurettes about the show’s legacy, and even the full “Twin Peaks” panel from Comic-con. While you’re at it, why not pick up the new Criterion Collection edition of “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me?” David Lynch wasn’t kidding when he said that his 1992 film maudit would be essential to understanding the third chapter of his magnum opus. — DE

“The Vietnam War”

Arguably the most important television program of the year, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s masterpiece of documentary filmmaking used nearly 80 interviews with people on all sides of the war: the American soldiers in the field, the families and politicians at home, draft dodgers, protestors, North and South Vietnamese armies, the Viet Cong, and the hapless Vietnamese civilians caught in between.

More than 40 years later, the repercussions of this war are still present today, which makes this essential viewing for everybody. The 18-hour project, and the accompanying book Burns wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward attempt to explain the rationalizations behind the war. The soundtrack is a stellar collection of more than 100 songs from that era ranging from The Beatles to Bob Dylan, in addition to the haunting score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Finch as well as the Silk Road Ensemble featuring Yo-Yo Ma. —HN

“Wonder Woman”

The only superhero so powerful that she could survive “Justice League” with her integrity perfectly intact, Wonder Woman is having one hell of a year, and she’s coming home just in time for the holidays. A deeply empowering spectacle that is arriving on DVD and Blu-ray at a time when the need for a new kind of hero has never been clearer, Patty Jenkins’ culture-smashing hit arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in a loaded edition that contains a new epilogue, a zillion different behind the scenes featurettes, deleted scenes, and a gag reel. There’s even something called “Finding the Wonder Woman Within,” which we can only hope involves an instructional video on how to lasso any of the men who get in your way. — DE