Windtalkers / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents a Lion Rock production ; a John Woo film ; produced by John Woo [and others] ; written by John Rice & Joe Batteer ; directed by John Woo.
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo s...
| Uniform Title: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials. |
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| Language: | English French Portuguese Spanish |
| Language of the Original: |
English |
| Language and/or Writing System: |
English (Dolby 5.1) or dubbed French (Dolby stereo. surround) dialogue, English, French, Spanish or Portuguese subtitles; closed-captioned. |
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Santa Monica, CA :
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment,
[2003]
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| Edition: | Director's edition. |
| Series: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials. |
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| Physical Description: | 3 videodiscs (approximately 153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Variant Title: |
Wind talkers. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Summary: |
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy. |
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| Note: | Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Special features: Disc 1: Personal on-camera introduction by John Woo; 3 feature-length audio commentary tracks: "Behind the scenes" with filmmakers John Woo and Terence Chang, "In the trenches" with actors Nicholas Cage and Christian Slater, "Navajo insights" with actor Roger Willie and Navajo consultant Albert Smith; original theatrical trailers ; Disc 2: Historical documentary "The Code Talkers: a secret code of honor"; WWII tribute piece "American heroes: a tribute to Navajo Code Talkers"; "The music of Windtalkers" featurette ; Disc 3: Battle sequence multi-view of four key action scenes; four fly-on-the-set scene diaries; "Actors' boot camp" featurette; behind-the-scenes photo gallery; John Woo biography pages. Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | AN6 D0024838 VideoDVD |
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MPAA rating: R, for pervasive graphic war violence and for language. |
| ISBN: | 0792855698 9780792855699 |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Jeffrey Kimball ; editors, Steven Kemper, Tom Rolf ; music, James Horner ; production designer, Holger Gross ; special make up effects, Kevin Yagher. |
| System Details: | DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1, 16:9 enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital stereo. surround, NTSC. |
| Cast: |
Nicholas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Brian Van Holt, Martin Henderson, Roger Willie, Frances O'Connor, Christian Slater. |