Director Martin Scorsese revisits New York City's notorious past with this dazzling historical drama. A throwback to the epics of yesteryear, GANGS OF NEW YORK is set in the mid-1800s, when the streets of lower Manhattan were teeming with tension and violence. Leonardo DiCaprio is Amsterdam Vallon, the son of a revered gang leader (Liam Neeson). As a youth, Amsterdam witnessed the death of his father at the hands of William "The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), the maniacally driven ruler of the city's most powerful gang. Sixteen years later, Amsterdam is finally released from the orphanage that raised him. Determined to avenge his father's death, Amsterdam makes his way back to the volatile Five Points to track down Cutting and exact revenge. As he gradually infiltrates Bill the Butcher's camp and earns the crazed gangster's respect, he must also contend with the tumultuous, but beautiful, Jenny Everdean (Cameron Diaz). DiCaprio and Diaz are impressive in their respective roles, but it is Day-Lewis who steals the show. Resurfacing after a five-year retirement, the Irish actor delivers a performance that is at once cartoonish, electrifying, comical, sincere, and deeply moving. By paying tribute to the early days of New York City in such a grand, spectacular manner, Scorsese also pays tribute to cinema itself.

Theatrical release: December 20, 2002

Original Production Year: 2001.

Blu-ray Disc Features:

Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Dolby Digital - French
Subtitles - French - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Martin Scorsese - Director
Featurette - 1. Costume Design Featurette
2. Set Design Featurette
3. History Of The Five Points
4. Exploring The Sets Of GANGS OF NEW YORK
5. Discovery Channel Special: "Uncovering The Real Gangs Of New York"
Music Video - U2 Music Video: "The Hands That Built America"
Trailer - 1. Theatrical Trailer
2. Teaser Trailer

Distributor Notes: An epic tale of vengeance and survival, GANGS OF NEW YORK now hits harder than ever on Blu-ray Disc?. Directed by Academy Award(R) winner Martin Scorsese (2006, Best Director, THE DEPARTED), this motion picture event stars two-time Oscar(R) winner Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, Best Actor, MY LEFT FOOT; 2007, Best Actor, THERE WILL BE BLOOD), Leonardo DiCaprio, and Cameron Diaz. After years of incarceration, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) returns to lower Manhattan's lawless, corrupt Five Points section seeking revenge against the rival gang leader (Day-Lewis) who killed his father. But before long, Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of an erupting wave of full-blown gang warfare. Feel your heart pound while weapons and cultures clash in a chaotic symphony of life and death. Surrender to the tumultuous atmosphere of 1860s New York as phenomenal sound and stunning visual clarity transport you back in time. Prepare to experience Scorsese's masterpiece as never before on Blu-ray? High Definition.

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Leonardo DiCaprio: American actor, TITANIC (1997), THE AVIATOR, GANGS OF NEW YO
Daniel Day-Lewis: British Actor, AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
Cameron Diaz: American Actress/THE MASK
Jim Broadbent: British actor
Brendan Gleeson: Actor/"Braveheart"
Liam Neeson: Irish actor, EXCALIBUR/SCHINDLER'S LIST
John C. Reilly: American Supporting Actor
Henry Thomas: American actor: E.T./GANGS OF NEW YORK
Liam Carney: Actor
William Kiernan: Set Decorator
Cara Seymour: DANCER IN THE DARK
David Hemmings: British Actor/Director

Martin Scorsese: American director/screenwriter/producer, GOODFELLAS (1990)

Alberto Grimaldi: Producer
Martin Scorsese: American director/screenwriter/producer, GOODFELLAS (1990)
Harvey Weinstein: Film producer

Steven Zaillian: Screenwriter/ Director
Jay Cocks: Screenwriter
Ken Lonergan: Screenwriter

Howard Shore: 

"...GANGS OF NEW YORK is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive....A triumph of pure craft and passionate heart..."
"...GANGS OF NEW YORK is an important film as well as an entertaining one. With this project, Mr. Scorsese has made his passionate ethnographic sensibility the vehicle of an especially grand ambition..."
"...It has as much greatness in it as any movie this year..."
"...The complicated and brilliant Day-Lewis makes all of old New York come alive; he's the furnace that stokes the story, and he gives off real, exciting heat..."
"...GANGS OF NEW YORK bears all the earmarks of a magnum opus for Martin Scorsese....A richly impressive and densely realized work..."
"...Unsparing, hallucinatory, spectacular, it's personal moviemaking on an epic scale, a vision that will take your breath away and hold it for the movie's entire running time..."
"...GANGS OF NEW YORK may be the last of its kind -- a costume picture made entirely in a studio by a superbly creative director in collaboration with mater craftspeople..."
"...Day-Lewis does a superb job of making the villain charismatic and complex..."
"Big, brilliant, brutal and beautiful."