Special features: commentary by director John McTiernan and production designer Jackson Degovia ; scene-specific commentary by special effects supervisor Richard Edlund ; subtitle commentary by various cast and crew ; branching version with the extended power shutdown scene cut back in.

Bruce Willis, Reginald VelJohnson, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason, William Atherton, De'voreaux White, Hart Bochner, Alan Rickman, Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush.

It's Christmas time in L.A. and on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building there's an employee party in progress. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber, who plans to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. Gruber and his henchmen pretend to be politically motivated in order to throw the authorities off track. Gruber has no intention of allowing anyone to get out of the building alive. Meanwhile, New York cop John McClane has come to L.A. to visit his estranged wife, Holly, who happens to be one of the hostages. Disregarding the orders of the authorities surrounding the building, McClane takes on the villains, armed with one handgun and plenty of cunning.

Rated R.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1988.

DVD; English Dolby digital 5.1, English DTS 5.1, English Surround Dolby digital, French Surround Dolby digital, widescreen 2.35:1, NTSC, region 1.

English and French language with English and Spanish subtitles, closed-captioned.