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Released
1976 · FILM

Midway

A determined U.S. naval officer must outmaneuver a cunning Japanese fleet to seize control of Midway Island, risking the fate of the Pacific war in a high‑stakes clash of strategy and firepower.

“The glory, the suspense, the spectacular drama of the men who won the most decisive naval battle in our history!”

Directed by
Jack Smight
Written by
Donald S Sanford
Runtime
132 min
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Synopsis

This war drama portrays the U.S. and Japanese forces during the naval Battle of Midway, a pivotal event for the Americans in World War II.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert SwinkShot by Harry Stradling JrScored by John Williams

Box Office

1976 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 25× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$100.0M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$100.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Schlacht um Midwayde
  • Schlacht um Midwayde
  • Battle of Midwayen
  • The Battle of Midwayen
  • La Bataille de Midwayfr
  • La battaglia di Midwayit

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