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Released
2005 · FILM

The Great Raid

An elite squad of U.S. Rangers must race 30 miles behind Japanese lines to free over 500 Allied prisoners, battling relentless enemy forces and treacherous terrain before time runs out.

“The most daring rescue mission of our time is a story that has never been told”

Directed by
John Dahl
Written by
William B Breuer, Hampton Sides
Runtime
132 min
ActionDramaWar

Synopsis

During World War II, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is tasked with a mission of heroic proportions: advancing 30 miles behind enemy lines to liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Scott ChestnutShot by Peter Menzies JrScored by Trevor RabinDesigned by Bruno Rubeo

Box Office

2005 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$10.2M

Budget$80.0M
Worldwide gross$10.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $4.7M

Peak 819 theaters

Also known as

  • The Great Raid - Tag der Befreiungde
  • El gran rescatees
  • Le Grand Raidfr

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