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The Thin Red Line (1998)

Name: The Thin Red Line
Director: Terrence Malick
Genre: drama film, war film
Duration: 166 min
Rating: 7.6

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second film adaptation of the 1962 novel by James Jones, following the 1964 film. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal campaign in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, it portrays U.S. soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment,…

Directed by Terrence Malick · Cut by Billy Weber, Saar Klein · Music by Hans Zimmer · Ratio 2.35:1 · 166 min

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Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998) with Jim Caviezel and Sean Penn — Serious Feather · 40 min
Hans Zimmer - making of THE THIN RED LINE Soundtrack Part 2/2 — Elegyscores · 6 min
THE THIN RED LINE Full Press Conference Berlinale 1999 — TeoTosone · 37 min
The Thin Red Line -- What Makes This Movie Great? (Episode 156) — Learning about Movies · 19 min

Elsewhere

More by Terrence Malick

The Way of the Wind
Lanton Mills — 1969
Badlands — 1973
Days of Heaven — 1978
The New World — 2006
The Tree of Life — 2011
To the Wonder — 2012
Knight of Cups — 2015
Voyage of Time — 2016
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience — 2016
Song to Song — 2017
A Hidden Life — 2019

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