Hong Kong Legends was initially part of Medusa Communications,[1] who, along with Soulblade bought up the UK distribution rights for film titles previously owned by Eastern Heroes label.

In preparing the DVDs, they gained access to the vaults of Hong Kong studios such as Golden Harvest, selecting the films with the highest quality prints available.

Their catalogue of films included releases featuring Hong Kong stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Donnie Yen and Michelle Yeoh.

[4] With the loss of both Bey Logan & Brian White (Logan having done his popular commentaries; and White having created the exclusive extras), Contender had to cancel many of the planned Hong Kong Legends releases and as there was no attempt to bring in replacement staff to perform audio commentaries, or to create bonus features, the release schedule significantly dropped.

[7] Release information taken from various sources, including the now defunct official Hong Kong Legends website,[8] IMDB [9] and online stores such as HKFlix.