Live Free or Die Hard

2007 film directed by Len Wiseman
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Live Free or Die Hard is an action film that falls into the action thriller, buddy film, and buddy cop film genres [1][2][3].

Key Facts

  • Director: Len Wiseman[3]
  • Screenwriter: Mark Bomback[4], Doug Richardson[5]
  • Composer: Marco Beltrami[6]
  • Genre: action film[7], action thriller[8], buddy film[9], buddy cop film[10]
  • Follows: Die Hard with a Vengeance[11]
  • Followed by: A Good Day to Die Hard[12]
  • Cast member: Bruce Willis[13], Justin Long[14], Timothy Olyphant[15], Cliff Curtis[16], Maggie Q[17], Mary Elizabeth Winstead[18], Kevin Smith[19], Edoardo Costa[20], Željko Ivanek[21], Tim Russ[22], Cyril Raffaelli[23], Chris Ellis (actor)[24], Jake McDorman[25], Jonathan Sadowski[26]
  • Producer: John McTiernan[27], Bruce Willis[28]
  • Part of the series: Die Hard[29]
  • Production company: Cheyenne Enterprises[30], RatPac-Dune Entertainment[31], Ingenious Media[32]
  • Director of photography: Simon Duggan[33]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[34]
  • Commons category: Live Free or Die Hard[35]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[36]
  • Review score: 6.8/10[37], 82%[38], 69/100[39]
  • Color: color[40]
  • Country of origin: United States[41]
  • Publication date: June 27, 2007[42], October 26, 2007[43], October 15, 2007[44]
  • Distributed by: 20th Century Studios[45]
  • Narrative location: New York[46], Washington, D.C.[47], United States[48], New York City[49], Maryland[50]
  • Official website: https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/live-free-or-die-hard[51]
  • Filming location: Baltimore[52], New Jersey[53], Los Angeles[54]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[55]

  • Secondary type(s): Soundtrack[56]

  • First release date: 2007-01-01[57]

  • Genre(s): classical[58]

  • Community tags: classical, score, soundtrack[59]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 5dfe1d0f-bc1c-3390-a04b-c04946916dcb[60]

Why It Matters

Live Free or Die Hard has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[61] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[62]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  11. [13] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved . cinematografo.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved . cinematografo.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved . cinematografo.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved . cinematografo.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved . cinematografo.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved . cinematografo.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . boxofficemojo.com. boxofficemojo.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [55] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [56] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
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  6. [60] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [61] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [62] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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