Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.

Critical Essays

Die Hard: 5 Reasons It’s The Greatest Action Movie Ever Made (Screen Rant)

Story Structure Analysis: Die Hard (6 Act Structure)

Die Hard movie review & film summary (Roger Ebert)

Die Hard humanized (and perfected) the action movie (AV Club)

Die Hard: Deconstructing 1980s Onscreen Masculinity (Film Archive)

Why Hans Gruber Remains the Greatest Action Movie Villain of All Time (Den of Geek)

7 Things That Don’t Make Sense About Die Hard (Cinema Blend)

Contextual Reading

Action Movies | The SilverScreen Analysis

Hollywood Action Hero – TV Tropes

Fox Plaza – The Architectural Star of ‘Die Hard’

Keane, Stephen. Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe

Videos