[edit] Industry milestones
- CBS/Fox Video launched Key Video and Playhouse Video in this year.
[edit] Home video and laws
- February 18 - The local courthouse in Ã…hus, Sweden fines the owner of a video rental shop for renting out a violent movie rated 15 to a 14 year old boy.
[edit] Movie releases
The following movies were released on video in 1983:
- Annie
- The Beastmaster
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- Blade Runner
- Creepshow
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- First Blood
- Gandhi
- The Howling
- Jaws 3-D (3-D was removed for video)
- Mad Max
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
- The Outsiders
- Pink Floyd The Wall
- Raiders of the Lost Ark - December 1983
- Risky Business - December 1983
- Rocky III
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Tron - October 1983
- Twilight Zone: The Movie - December 1983
- Victor/Victoria
- Videodrome
