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Reclamation

An American traveling abroad for business, Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) wakes up in a German hospital after a car accident to find everything's been taken from him, even his identity, in Unknown. When he finds his wife (January Jones) she doesn't recognize him, and she's with a man who claims to be the "real" Dr. Harris (Aiden Quinn) and has the paperwork and identification to prove it. Aided by a former East German secret police agent (Bruno Ganz), Martin must find the only person who remembers him, the taxi driver (Diane Kruger) from his accident, and unravel the mystery that has stolen his life. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

A movie centered on the popular Roman Ninth Legion, The Eagle stars Channing Tatum as Centurion Marcus Flavius Aquila, the son of the Ninth's standard bearer, whose family lives with the shame of having lost the legion's bronze eagle. Discharged from the military after an unfortunate battle, Marcus concocts a plan to reclaim his family's honor: he and his slave (Jamie Bell) will travel into the enemy-controlled lands in the north of Britain and return with the Ninth's eagle... but in enemy lands, his slave is in familiar territory, and Marcus himself is surrounded by enemies. With Mark Strong. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Fate

David Norris (Matt Damon) reconnects with Elise (Emily Blunt) on a bus months after their chance meeting and first kiss in The Adjustment Bureau, but they were never supposed to meet again. As the strange, supernatural agents (including Anthony Mackie and John Slattery) of the Bureau slightly rig human lives to take certain paths, they never intended for these two to meet, but David stands up against fate and the omnipresent Adjustment Bureau to be with, and stay with, Elise... though he may have worse problems than the anger of the bureau, as pursuing the woman he loves and stepping away from his written destiny could derail both of their fates. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Comedies

Josh Randor's indie comedy Happythankyoumoreplease stars Randor as Sam, a slacker writer who unofficially adopts Rasheen, a foster child who follows him home and refuses to leave. In Sam's orbit are his best friend (Malin Akerman) with terrible taste in men, his cousin (Zoe Kazan) and her boyfriend (Pablo Schreiber) who are considering leaving New York for Los Angeles, and the beautiful waitress (Kate Mara) who tests his fear of commitment. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Innocent, small-town insurance agent Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) has to fly to a regional conference in Miguel Arteta's Cedar Rapids. Tim needs to win the prestigious Two Diamonds Award for his hometown insurance company and his good nature seems a perfect way to win the favor of the morals-obsessed head of the convention (Kurtwood Smith), but he falls in with a group of insurance agents (John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, and Isiah Whitlock Jr) who show the naive Tim what wild antics the big city has to offer... and though he thinks his innocence hangs in the balance, Tim learns that the morals in Cedar Rapids aren't as easy to understand as he thought. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Family

Kenji is a high school student with a gift for math in Summer Wars, by the director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. He gets taken by his classmate, Natsuki, to her family's estate for her grandmother's 90th birthday... but when an internet virus causes global mayhem with Kenji's name, he finds himself surrounded by a huge clan with a proud military ancestry, and they band together to combat a threat that no one else in the world can face.

Greg (Zachary Gordon) and his best friend Rowley (Robert Capron) are beginning seventh grade in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, but they're still the "undersized weaklings" they were in the first movie. To make matters worse, Greg's mother (Rachel Harris) has decided to curb the antics at home by introducing a system of "Mom Bucks," which puts him in direct competition with his brother, Rodrick (Devon Bostick). On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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The documentary film Living in Emergency: Doctors without Borders recounts the stories of the doctors who travel to war-torn nations to provide emergency care. Taking place in Congo and Nigeria, doctors struggle with the intense workload and the challenges of the field.

Two new documentaries from PBS' Secrets of the Dead series are China's Terra Cotta Warriors, exploring the recently unearthed 8,000 individual statues of the army of China's first emporer from 2200 BC, and Lost in the Amazon, recounting famed explorer Percey Fawcett's 1925 expedition to the Amazon, ending in his still-unsolved disappearance. Narrated by Liev Schreiber.

New this week in Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the 6th season of Kyra Sedgwick in the procedural The Closer, as well as the final season of the supernatural crime drama Medium with Patricia Arquette, as well as the first season of Louis C.K's standup, documentary, sitcom hybrid Louie.

Also new are seasons two, three, and four of the BBC period drama Lark Rise to Candleford, and the Masterpiece Theater drama The Cazalets with Hugh Bonneville.