Director Wolfgang Petersen Dies at 81 — How to Stream His Best Movies Including ‘Air Force One’
If you needed an action director in the 1990s, it was hard to do much better than Wolfgang Petersen. His tense thrillers were audience favorites, and he directed heavyweights like Harrison Ford, John Malkovich, Clint Eastwood, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman, and Morgan Freeman.
He had a knack for tension, and his breakout film, “Das Boot” is considered an all-time classic, and “The NeverEnding Story” still tugs at the hearts of every child of the 1980s.
Wolfgang Petersen died Friday of pancreatic cancer.
The Best of Wolfgang Petersen
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Das Boot
September 17, 1981A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
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The NeverEnding Story
April 6, 1984While hiding from bullies in his school’s attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
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Enemy Mine
December 12, 1985A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.
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In the Line of Fire
July 8, 1993Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself “Booth” threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
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Outbreak
March 10, 1995A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels’ job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
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Air Force One
July 25, 1997When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world’s most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country’s dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
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The Perfect Storm
June 29, 2000In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
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Troy
May 13, 2004In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
