Rescue Dawn

Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to direct his first feature since 2001's Invincible with this dramatic action film inspired by his own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly and detailing the escape efforts of a German-American pilot who was taken as a prisoner-of-war after being shot ...more

Rescue Dawn is not the first film for which Christian Bale has undergone a dramatic physical transformation. Twice over, he has chiseled and toned his way to an Adonis-worthy physique to play the Caped Crusader, and, antithetically, lost nearly seventy pounds for his role in The Machinist. Portraying a P.O.W. in director Werner Herzog’s latest fictional effort required that he tend toward the emaciated end of the weight spectrum, displaying, yet again, a level of dedication to his craft that few ...more