<P> In the United Kingdom, the film was first aired on BBC One on 25 December 1978 and, as of December 2016, fifteen times since, mostly around Christmas time . As the BBC channels in Britain are not funded by advertising there was no need to cut scenes to fit within a timeslot and the film was screened in the full 174 - minute version without breaks . </P> <P> The film has been released on VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD numerous times . The first DVD version was released on August 29, 2000 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the film's release . The film is often included in box sets with other Rodgers & Hammerstein film adaptations . A 40th anniversary DVD, with "making of" documentaries and special features, was released on November 15, 2005 . The film made its debut issue on Blu - ray Disc on November 2, 2010, for its 45th anniversary . For the Blu - ray release, the original 70 mm negatives were rescanned at 8K resolution, then restored and remastered at 4K resolution for the transfer to Blu - ray, giving the most detailed copy of the film seen thus far . On March 10, 2015, Fox Home Entertainment released The Sound of Music 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition--a five - disc set featuring thirteen hours of bonus features, including a new documentary, The Sound of a City: Julie Andrews Returns to Salzburg . A March 2015 episode of ABC's 20 / 20 entitled The Untold Story of the Sound of Music featured a preview of the documentary and interviews by Diane Sawyer . </P>

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