The one and a half hour film uses beautiful, high definition aerial photography from over 60 countries around the globe to tell the story of Earth's worldwide ecosystem, how humans have affected it, and how environmental problems are all interconnected. In addition to being released on YouTube, Home is being shown in theaters across the director's home country of France, including a free screening tonight at the Eiffel Tower, is being shown on French television, and sold on DVD at the French bookstore chain, FNAC.
The trailer for Home is embedded below. The entire movie, available in English, French, Spanish, and German translations, can be seen on the film's YouTube page.
Simultaneous release of a film across mediums has been tried before. In 2006, billionaire investor Mark Cuban financed Bubble, a low budget Steven Soderbergh film that was released simultaneously in a handful of theaters and on Cuban's HDNet cable TV channel. Four days following the theater and television release, the film was made available on DVD. The film had trouble finding a distributor, due in large part to that unorthodox release schedule, and its theatrical run was short-lived and extremely narrow. As a result, it only recouped about $260,000 of its $1.6 million budget from box office returns.