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Films about Delta Force, a special operations force of the United States Army, under operational control of the Joint Special Operations Command. The unit's missions primarily involve counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, direct action, and special reconnaissance, often against high-value targets.
The Delta Force earned $5,959,505 on its opening weekend and had a total gross of $17,768,900 in the United States. [ 2 ] [ 16 ] The film was released on DVD on September 28, 2000. [ 17 ] The Delta Force has been released on Blu-ray in the US, and more recently in the UK by video label Arrow Films.
Focusing on the activities of an elite group of US soldiers (Delta Force) as they combat a terrorist group in southern Africa, the film's title apparently attempted to capitalize on the earlier Chuck Norris films The Delta Force and its sequels Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection and Delta Force 3: The Killing Game.
Delta Farce is a 2007 American war comedy film directed by C. B. Harding and stars Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy, DJ Qualls and Danny Trejo.The first film after the Blue Collar Comedy Tour concert films to star both Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy, the title is a play on the Delta Force, one of the United States Army's elite special operations units alongside the Army Rangers and the Green ...
A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 SuperScope Eastmancolor film about the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the World War II film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote, with elements also mirroring Above and Beyond and Toward the Unknown, films written by his collaborator, Beirne Lay Jr.
"They're rewriting the script," said Norris in December 1988. "It's better to straighten out the problems in the screenplay now, rather than later. I hate it when you start a movie with a script half done; chances are you'll end up with a mediocre movie. The first 'Delta Force' was well written." [3]
Eric L. Haney, a retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major who operated in Delta Force, was the technical advisor, and briefly appears. After Spartan, he and Mamet created The Unit television series about an Army unit mirroring Delta Force. [2]
In Her Line of Fire (also known as Air Force Two) is a 2006 American action film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Mariel Hemingway, David Keith, David Millbern and Jill Bennett. In Her Line of Fire opened in limited release in the United States on April 21, 2006.