Product Details

• Actors: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Horst Buchholz, John Saxon
• Directors: Irvin Kershner
• Writers: Barry Beckerman
• Producers: Daniel H. Blatt, Edgar J. Scherick, Robin S. Clark
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Star Classics
• VHS Release Date: September 26, 1990
• Run Time: 145 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302737273
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,864 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

It was June 1976 that an Air France plane carrying 244 passengers and a crew of 12 on a flight from Athens to Paris was hijacked by terrorists who forced the captain to alter course and eventually land at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. With the tacit approval of President Idi Amin, the passengers were held hostage and threatened with death if the Israeli government didn't comply with their captor's demand to release 53 Palestinian so-called freedom fighters held in Israeli prisons. The world held its breath as the hours and minutes to the deadlines set by the terrorists ticked by...

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

177 of 180 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazon, some help here!!!, October 8, 2007

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Evergreen (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raid on Entebbe (DVD)

DVD's can be great, or garbage. Evidently there's a DVD of Raid on Entebbe that is garbage. But which?? Reviews were easier and more helpful when there was one DVD of one movie. But once again, now that there is a 2007 re-release of Raid on Entebbe, which reviews belong to which DVD? In particular, have the transfer problems that plague MANY DVDs been cleaned up in the new release? Somehow, Amazon has GOT to make sure that the reviews for one DVD are not attached to another. If you agree, please click this. Maybe if enough people ask for it, Amazon will clean up its act.

75 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Movie is GREAT! - the DVD is horrible!, March 14, 2005

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Smitty (Enumclaw, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raid on Entebbe (DVD)

All I can say is that it is too bad this is how this excellent movie is treated. I highly recommend the movie and have been waiting a long time for it to be released as a DVD. However, the other reviewer is correct, they did a terrible job of recording this movie onto DVD. The quality is worse than a bad reception TV broadcast and scenes have been cut out! The quality of this DVD is as if someone recorded it on VHS from TV and then copied it onto DVDs in their garage! It is truly lousy work. Again, the movie is excellent and if it were to come out in a DVD format made from the original movie reels, with widescreen as an option, I would still buy a copy. Don't waste your money on this one. The VHS might be better, but you'd get just as much satisfaction if you recorded it off of TV!

57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Record this movie off of TV. It will be better., February 3, 2005

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David "Jazzman" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raid on Entebbe (DVD)

I like the movie and was hoping the DVD would be a good purchase. Unfortunately the DVD is the worst quality DVD I have ever seen. It's not even DVD quality. Regular TV broadcasts coming through my DirecTV signal are much sharper than this low quality piece of junk. The picture quality is very dark. I have seen this movie on TV and the darkness of the picture is very noticable. Even worse is that the makers of the DVD cut out complete scenes of the movie! The one star rating is not for the movie itself, but for the extremely bad job done to make this DVD. It sucks! Don't buy it! Record the movie off of TV and then have someone record it onto a DVD for you. It will be much better