FIRST DISC TELLS THE WHOLE STORY. THE REST IS OLD FOOTAGE OF NASCAR

RACES OVER AND OVER. I FINALLY GOT TIRED OF IT PUT ON MY NEW DENIS

LEARY DVD. MUCH MORE ENTERTAINING FOR THE MONEY.

This movie boxed set changed my mind on the Late Dale Sr.I never knew he was such a generous man. He always came across, as a mean intimidating person . After watching this I realized what a kind person he was. I would buy this from this seller again. It was a great buy.

I'll never be able to claim I was around for Dale's earlier years, for his championships, etc., but I feel this DVD put me in that place and see the man he really was. I only started watching NASCAR a few years before his death, but I was always intrigued about the man they call The Intimidator, and I think this DVD more than covered what I missed out on. I watched the documentary in its original run on CMT last September, even recorded it, but when I heard that they were coming out with a 6-disc collector's edition I knew it would be worth it and I just had to buy it.

The only thing I was in the dark about when it came to wanting to buy this disk, though, was what the extras actually were. They were well worth it, I thought. Here they are by disc:

Disc 1 - The documentary
Disc 2 - Deleted Scenes, bloopers, extras, an alternate beginning and ending, interviews with the man himself, etc.
Disc 3 - The full 2000 Winston 500, which was of course, Dale's last race. This also includes commentary with Richard Childress, which I believe is actually on a condensed version of the race.
Disc 4 - Dale-Tona: Shows the highlights of his 1986, 1990, 1997, and 1998 efforts. The thing I love about it, especially '98, is how it comes in its original format, as in it comes with the CBS logo, the graphics, etc. A lot of times when they have a race on DVD it cuts a lot of that out, but it's still intact on here, which is just a little thing that enhances the viewing experience.
Disc 5 - A photo gallery, and a 20-minute documentary, "The Making of DALE." The photo gallery is especially nice, because again, it's not like something that is on a lot of DVD's where it's just pictures and you scroll through, but it has background music and transitions between the pictures. The documentary is pretty cool too.
Disc 6 - The full version of the 1998 Daytona 500, with a separate condensed version which has all the major two-way audio that occurred during the race between Earnhardt and his team.

And the case itself is packed, with a print-out of an actual '98 Daytona 500 ticket and the full results/point standings. Another nice touch.

Very well done, and it was really the truly the way it should have been completed...

I bought my dad this for Christmas because he is still a huge fan. He cried.

Some pro athletes transcend their sport. Take, for example, pro basketball's Shaquille O'Neal and Larry Bird, pro soccer's Mia Hamm and Pele, hockey's Wayne Gretzky and Jaromir Jagr, baseball's Alex Rodriguez and Hank Aaron, and football's Brett Favre and Walter Payton. A short list from the world of racing would include Mario Andretti, Jimmie Johnson, Richard Petty and the late NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.

This is Earnhardt's story: he knew what he wanted, he worked hard to get it and, as a result, he became a champion, the face of NASCAR and a sports legend. But don't let that brief synopsis satisfy any curiosity you may have about "Dale", the film or person. Why? You'd regret not seeing this movie.

Now, I'd seen the "Barry Pepper incarnation" of Earnhardt in the ESPN movie based on Earnhardt's life "3: The Dale Earnhardt Story". For character acting...in telling the story of a well-known sports figure based on facts pretty well known by anyone who's paid NASCAR any attention over the last 20 years, it was ok.

The film "Dale" is a documentary, albeit a well told story narrated by actor/racing enthusiast Paul Newman that's compellingly conveyed with archived television coverage of Earnhardt's races, and old photos which are key to telling his dad's story. What hooked me, though, were the interviews with Earnhardt's friends, his peers within the racing world, and his family. To me, these conversations tell "The Intimidator's" real story.

I learned that Earnhardt had once said that his greatest regret was his not taking up his dad's offer to buy Dale a brand new car if Dale'd just finish high school. That was quite an offer from a man that supported his family by racing North Carolina's dirt tracks. Dale quit school, any way, to focus on racing. Then his dad, Ralph, died suddenly at age 45. He died before seeing the payoff for his son's inherited passion, and determination, to be first on race day: the driver of the #3 car's ascension to becoming a renowned NASCAR racing champion.

The film frame's Earnhardt's life and career with breaks to CBS Sports' coverage of the 1998 Daytona 500; a race day that, going into it, felt to driver and race team alike to feel a bit different...race day feelings symbolized by a penny glued to the dashboard of Earnhardt's #3 car...feelings about a race for which he'd already used 19 different ways to lose.