[edit] Industry milestones

Sesame Street home videos are launched, March 12.

RCA/Columbia Pictures' Home Video music division, MusicVision, releases 2 volumes containing 2 episodes each of The Monkees TV series on July 15, taking advantage of the group's 20th anniversary.

[edit] Movie releases

The following movies were released on video on the following dates:

This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

• Alice in Wonderland - May 28, 1986
• Back to the Future - May 22, 1986
• Better Off Dead - March 16, 1986
• Brazil - June 1986
• The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation - August 1986
• Cocoon - May 1986
• Commando - April 1986
• Critters
• Fright Night - April 1986
• The Goonies - March 1986
• Head - September 18, 1986
• House
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - October 29, 1986
• The Jewel of the Nile - July 1, 1986
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - January 1986
• The Man With One Red Shoe - January 1986
• National Lampoon's European Vacation - February 1986
• Out of Africa - September 1986
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure - February 1986
• Rambo: First Blood Part II - January 1986
• Real Genius - February 26, 1986
• Return of the Jedi - February 25, 1986
• Rocky IV - May 1986
• Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird - March 17, 1986
• Short Circuit - November 1986
• Silverado - February 26, 1986
• Sleeping Beauty - October 14, 1986
• The Sound of Music - CBS/Fox Video
• Spies Like Us - July 14, 1986
• The Sword in the Stone - March 24, 1986
• Weird Science - March 1986