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#5,410 All-time worldwide
#44 1984 releases

Movie profile

A Soldier's Story

1984 · 101 min · Caldix

Mystery Crime Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $21.8M
Budget $6.0M
Gross minus budget $15.8M
ROI 3.64x

Domestic gross

$10.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$10.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where A Soldier's Story ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #5,410 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1984 releases #44 Release-year chart position of 163 titles Ranked against movies released in 1984. Primary genre #439 Mystery of 951 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did A Soldier's Story (1984) perform at the box office?

High confidence

A Soldier's Story (1984) earned a reported $21.8M worldwide against a reported $6.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $15.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.64x. In this database it currently ranks #5,410 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #44 among 1984 releases.

Worldwide gross
$21,821,347
Budget
$6,000,000
Gross minus budget
$15,821,347
ROI
3.64x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 14, 1984
Production
Caldix, Columbia Pictures
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1984, A Soldier's Story is positioned in this dataset as a Mystery, Crime, Drama title from Caldix. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $21.8M, reported production budget is $6.0M, gross-minus-budget is $15.8M, ROI is 3.64x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,410 all-time in the current chart set and #44 among 1984 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.