Enjoy the Nutcracker on DVD!
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Published December 1, 2025
There are at least 20 versions on DVD in Josten Library on exhibit; choose traditional or not, ballet, modern, or both! You can borrow a DVD player too!
A Nutcracker Primer
Choose your version. You can’t stop at one! A veritable history and panoply of Nutcrackers!
Check out the Visual Browse on Nutcracker on DVD & Visual Browse.
Movies
New York City Ballet (Macauley Culkin, Kistler, Cook).
Choreographer: George Balanchine
DVD GV 1790 N8 B3 1997
Pacific Northwest Ballet (Maurice Sendak sets)
Choreographer: Kent Stowell
DVD GV 1790 N8 P32 2011
1965 TV adaptation
New York City Ballet (Hayden, Villela, McBride)
Choreographer: Kurt Jacob, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV 170 N8 N48 2009
Documentary
Nutcracker Family : Behind the Magic / a film by Virginia Brooks.
DVD G1790 N8 N88 2006
At the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet.
Traditional Stagings
American Ballet Theatre (Baryshnikov, Kirkland, Minz).
Choreographer: Mikhail Baryshnikov
DVD GV 1790 N8 A5 2004
Bolshoi Ballet (Maximova, Vasiliev, Gordeyev, Pavlova).
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorevich, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV 1790 N8 B6 2004
Bolshoi Ballet (Arkhipova, Mukhamedov, Verrov).
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorevich, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV 1790 N8 B6 2005
Bolshoi Ballet (Kaptsova, Ovcharenko, Savin).
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorevich, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV1790 N8 B6 2011
Kirov Ballet (Lezhnina, Baranov, Russanov)
Choreographer: Adapted by Vasily Vainonen
DVD GV 1790 N8 K5 1994
Royal Ballet (Nureyev, Park)
Choreographer: Rudolph Nureyev
DVD GV 1790 N8 2000
Royal Ballet (Cojocaru, Putrov, Dowell).
Choreographer: Peter Wright, after Lev Ivanov
DVD GV 1790 N8 R69 2001
Royal Ballet (Yoshida, McRae, Avis).
Choreographer: Peter Wright, after Lev Ivanov (also streaming)
DVD GV 1790 N8 R69 2010
San Francisco Ballet (Smith, Powell, Karapetyan).
Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson (also streaming)
DVD GV 1790 S35 2008
Mariinsky Ballet (Golub, Sarafanov, Kulikov, Ponomarev, Bazhenova, Adasinsky)
Choreographer: Adapted by Mihail Chemiakin
DVD GV 1790 N8 M37 2007
Mariinsky Ballet (Somova, Shklyarov, Korshunova, Ponomaryov, Lopukho)
Choreographer: Adapted by Vasily Vainonen
DVD GV1790.N8 M37 2012
Less Traditional
Bejart Ballet Laussane
Choreographer: Maurice Bejart
DVD GV1790 N8 B4 2000
Compagnie Malka (Greg Germain, director; produced by Axe Sud)
Choreographer: Bouba Landrille Tchoud
"This performance revisits the story and provides "a" phantasmagoric nutcracker, reinvented through hip hop dance influences."
DVD GV1790.N8 T34 2014
Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker.
Choreographer: Matthew Bourne
DVD GV 1790 N8 B7 2003
Mark Morris Dance Group. The Hard Nut.
Choreographer: Mark Morris
DVD GV 1790 N8 H37 2007
Uniquely Australian
Australian Ballet.
Choreographer: Graeme Murphy
DVD GV 1790 .N8 A8 1994
Contact
Marlene Wong
Werner Josten Performing Arts Library
mmwong@smith.edu