https://shotonwhat.com/distributed-aspect-ratio/2-201 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:26:43 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/true-lies-1994 Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:42:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/true-lies-1994
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/1941-1979 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:28:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/1941-1979
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: William A. Fraker
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:55:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:08:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/interstellar-2014 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:00:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/interstellar-2014
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tenet-2020 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:10:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tenet-2020
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dunkirk-2017 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:46:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dunkirk-2017
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/oppenheimer-2023 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:26:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/oppenheimer-2023
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-1999 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:23:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-1999
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:23:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983
Director: Richard Marquand
Cinematographer: Alan Hume, Alec Mills
After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/never-say-never-again-1983 Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:16:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/never-say-never-again-1983
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
James Bond is called upon to try to recover nuclear bombs stolen by Spectre, but he will have to get rid of a professional assassin, hired especially to eliminate him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/moonraker-1979 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:43:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/moonraker-1979
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cinematographer: Jean Tournier
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/goldeneye-1995 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:28:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/goldeneye-1995
Director: Martin Campbell
Cinematographer: Phil Meheux
James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow Agent formerly believed to be dead. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrow-never-dies-1997 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:25:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrow-never-dies-1997
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/licence-to-kill-1989 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:18:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/licence-to-kill-1989
Director: John Glen
Cinematographer: Alec Mills
A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/octopussy-1983 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:16:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/octopussy-1983
Director: John Glen
Cinematographer: Alan Hume
A fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:53:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-1980 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:56:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-1980
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky
After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970 Wed, 29 May 2024 01:46:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fiddler-on-the-roof-1971 Wed, 29 May 2024 01:18:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fiddler-on-the-roof-1971
Director: Norman Jewison
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-mission-1986 Sat, 25 May 2024 13:31:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-mission-1986
Director: Roland Joffé
Cinematographer: Chris Menges
Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/doctor-zhivago-1965 Tue, 21 May 2024 04:57:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/doctor-zhivago-1965
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/wonder-woman-2017 Thu, 16 May 2024 18:03:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/wonder-woman-2017
Director: Patty Jenkins
Cinematographer: Matthew Jensen
When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-towering-inferno-1974 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:53:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-towering-inferno-1974
Director: John Guillermin
Cinematographer: Fred J. Koenekamp
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spartacus-2-1960 Thu, 16 May 2024 16:10:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spartacus-2-1960
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/apocalypse-now-1979 Thu, 16 May 2024 02:26:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/apocalypse-now-1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tess-1979 Thu, 16 May 2024 02:09:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tess-1979
Director: Roman Polanski
Cinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet, Geoffrey Unsworth
A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blood-cell-2019 Tue, 14 May 2024 16:58:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blood-cell-2019
Director: Daniel Sowter
Cinematographer: Sidney Berthier
Barbara adjusts to her new life behind bars, her crimes start to haunt her. Her new cellmate Evelyn is about to start an obsessive and ghostly friendship with her, one that Barbara cannot escape from. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-1956 Tue, 14 May 2024 03:42:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-1956
Director: Michael Anderson, John Farrow
Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/roma-2018 Mon, 13 May 2024 17:37:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/roma-2018
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cinematographer: Alfonso Cuarón
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/poltergeist-1982 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:33:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/poltergeist-1982
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-goonies-1985 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:52:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-goonies-1985
Director: Richard Donner
Cinematographer: Nick McLean
A group of young misfits who call themselves The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on a quest to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mank-2020 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 01:45:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mank-2020
Director: David Fincher
Cinematographer: Erik Messerschmidt
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989 Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:01:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mindhunter-2017 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:39:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mindhunter-2017
Director: David Fincher, Carl Franklin, Andrew Douglas, Asif Kapadia, Tobias Lindholm, Andrew Dominik
Cinematographer: Erik Messerschmidt, Christopher Probst
Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing serial killers to solve open cases. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:31:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-1968 Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:46:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-1968
Director: Ken Hughes
Cinematographer: Christopher Challis
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/independence-day-1996 Thu, 04 Jul 2019 16:54:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/independence-day-1996
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cinematographer: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ice-station-zebra-1968 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:03:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ice-station-zebra-1968
Director: John Sturges
Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp
USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/song-of-norway-1970 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:03:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/song-of-norway-1970
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Cinematographer: Davis Boulton
Based on the life of Norway's greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's music with added lyrics. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lord-jim-1965 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:57:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lord-jim-1965
Director: Richard Brooks
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cheyenne-autumn-1964 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:54:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cheyenne-autumn-1964
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: William H. Clothier
The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/exodus-1960 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:54:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/exodus-1960
Director: Otto Preminger
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-fisherman-1959 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:54:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-fisherman-1959
Director: Frank Borzage
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes
Exploring the life of Peter, from being a successful fisherman to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ and being dependent on Jesus Christ. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/orpheus-in-der-unterwelt-1975 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:51:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/orpheus-in-der-unterwelt-1975
Director: Horst Bonnet
Cinematographer: Otto Hanisch
Orpheus in the underworld. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airport-1970 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:12:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airport-1970
Director: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo
A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-valley-1971 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:12:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-valley-1971
Director: James Clavell
Cinematographer: Norman Warwick, John Wilcox
During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/porgy-and-bess-1959 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:12:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/porgy-and-bess-1959
Director: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/oliver-1968 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:06:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/oliver-1968
Director: Carol Reed
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrowland-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:22:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrowland-2015
Director: Brad Bird
Cinematographer: Claudio Miranda
Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory. ]]>