TV on DVD: 'Omnibus,' '60s campaigns

OMNIBUS: AMERICAN PROFILES

Series Charmingly relaxed '50s arts/culture magazine (think CBS' current "Sunday Morning") visits with now-legendary creative people -- innovative architect Frank Lloyd Wright discusses homes with "a facility for life," blind humorist-artist James Thurber ("Walter Mitty") talks about "the only thing I can do badly enough to make it good," novelist William Faulkner is home in rural Mississippi, composer Leonard Bernstein goes to Israel, boxer Sugar Ray Robinson visits Manhattan's renowned Skillman's gym, half-hour portrait of 1955 Grand Central Terminal activity (including the Twentieth Century Limited), lots more.

Extras Booklet with evocative essays by people involved in the series' segments.

List price $40 for two discs, released by eOne.

Also out

THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960s These much-honored documentary films helped pave the way for inside accounts of political campaigns, chronicling the races of 1960 (Kennedy), 1964 (Johnson) and 1968 (Nixon); $60, Athena.

MI-5: VOLUME 9 Peter Firth continues in Britain's acclaimed spy series; $40, BBC.

TV DVDs on the way

Sept. 20 "Law & Order: Los Angeles"

Oct. 11 "It Takes a Thief," complete series

Oct. 25 "Barney Miller," complete series