Hawk Films (also known as Peregrine Productions, Harrier Films and Stanley Kubrick Productions) was a British film production company formed by American filmmaker

Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American filmmaker and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick filmography, his films were nearly all adaptations of novels or sho ...

to produce his 1964 film ''

Dr. Strangelove ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' (known simply and more commonly as ''Dr. Strangelove'') is a 1964 political satire black comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely ...

''. Kubrick also used it as a production company for his later films '' A Clockwork Orange'' (1971), ''

Barry Lyndon ''Barry Lyndon'' is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel '' The Luck of Barry Lyndon'' by William Makepeace Thackeray. Narrated by Michael Hordern, and starring Ryan O'N ...

'' (1975), '' The Shining'' (1980), and ''

Full Metal Jacket ''Full Metal Jacket'' is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel '' The Short-Timers''. It stars ...

'' (1987). Kubrick later formed two subsidiaries that were also named after

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: Peregrine Productions was involved in the production of ''Barry Lyndon'' and ''The Shining'', while Harrier Films was involved in ''Full Metal Jacket'', together with his main production company Stanley Kubrick Productions, which formed to produce '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968) and was also the main production company for Kubrick's final film ''

Eyes Wide Shut ''Eyes Wide Shut'' is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on the 1926 novella '' Dream Story'' () by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from earl ...

'' (1999), and

Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg ( ; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is ...

's 2001 film ''

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''. American environmentalist

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served as vice president of Hawk Films from 1965 to 1969, and was involved in the promotion of ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.

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