What do you get when mixing home movie footage, archival audio recordings, literature and other disparate elements? Movies from a Sundance Film Festival winner.

“Personal and Political: The Films of Natalia Almada” (Icarus Films) is a DVD boxed set that showcases six of Almada’s films made between 2001 and 2021.

In those 20 years, the documentary filmmaker draws on her Mexican background to make insightful movies that seek out new perspectives.

The films are “All Water Has a Perfect Memory” (2001), “Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side” (2005), “El General” (2009), “El Velador” (2011), “Todo lo Demas (Everything Else)” (2016), and “Users” (2021).

With the recent explosion of artificial intelligence, “Users” becomes that much more relevant. The film explores the unintended and often dehumanizing consequences of the belief that technological progress will benefit humanity.

The other films cover drug lords, escaping to the United States, and a revolutionary general and one-time Mexican president. The latter, “El General,” covers the legacy of someone who Almada knows a lot about: her great-grandfather.

Other titles

“The Flash” (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment) features Andy Muschietti and Ezra Miller reprising their role as The Flash and Barry Allen in the DC superhero’s inaugural standalone film. Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time to change events of the past. His actions inadvertently alter the future, and he becomes trapped in a reality in which Gen. Zod has returned, threatening annihilation with no superheroes to turn to. This title is accentuated by a fistful of featurettes.

“Smiling Friends: The Complete First Season” (Adult Swim, Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment) is an eight-episode disc that captures adventures that are at once fantastic, off, beautiful and even scary. A bonus episode, “The Smiling Friends Go to Brazil,” helps turn frowns upside down.