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Released
2004 · FILM

The Alamo

A band of Texan and Tejano defenders, including legends Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, make a last stand against the overwhelming forces of Mexican dictator Santa Anna at the Alamo, fighting for the soul of a new nation.

“You will never forget”

Directed by
John Lee Hancock
Written by
Leslie Bohem, Stephen Gaghan
Runtime
137 min
DramaHistoryWar
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

The Alamo, a 1836 standoff, involved a group of Texan and Tejano defenders, including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, who were besieged by the Mexican army under dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Eric L BeasonShot by Dean SemlerScored by Carter BurwellDesigned by Michael Corenblith

Box Office

2004 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$25.8M

Budget$107.0M
Worldwide gross$25.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $22.4M — 87% of worldwide · International: $3.4M (13%)

Opening weekend: $9.1M — 41% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $12.3M — 55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,609 theaters

Also known as

  • Alamo – Der Traum, das Schicksal, die Legendede
  • The Alamo - Der Traum, das Schicksal, die Legendede
  • Alamo - Gli ultimi eroiit

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ProductionImagine Entertainment

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