Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.

Special features: Audio commentary by producer/director Edward Zwick and executive producer Peter Schindler; "The siege: taking New York" featurette; "Martial law: freedom is history" featurette; international TV special (1998); The making of The siege; two theatrical trailers.

Title from container.

Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; editor, Steven Rosenblum ; music, Graeme Revell ; costume designer, Ann Roth ; production designer, Lilly Kilvert.

Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, Sami Bouajila, David Proval.

Islamic militants unleash terrorism by blowing up in a bus in Brooklyn. FBI Terrorism Task Force chief Anthony Hubbard investigates. Agents track a suspect through Brooklyn, while Hub teams with Middle East expert and NSA operative Elise Kraft. After the FBI wipes out three Arabs in a Brooklyn apartment, an explosion in a Broadway theater is followed by attacks on a school and the FBI headquarters. When the President declares martial law, neo-fascist Army General William Devereaux swings into action, deploying tanks through Brooklyn, capturing Arab-American males, and herding them into an open-air stadium detention camp. With the Army out of control, the power-crazed Devereaux devises plans for totrure and murder, turning his attention to Hub and Elise.

MPAA rating: R; for violence, language and brief nudity.

DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital surround, dual-layer, NTSC.

This DVD disc is copy protected.

Can be viewed dubbed in French or Spanish, or subtitled in English or Spanish.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.