In 1997 is New York omgevormd tot een maximum security gevangenis. Nadat het presidentiële vliegtuig boven de stad door criminelen is neergehaald, krijgt de cynische bankrover Snake Plissken een aanbod. De president redden uit handen van de bendes in ruil voor zijn vrijheid.
Nee, helaas is Escape from New York nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Writing | Nick Castle | Screenplay |
| Production | Larry Franco | Producer |
| Production | Debra Hill | Producer |
| Sound | Alan Howarth | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Todd C. Ramsay | Editor |
| Art | Joe Alves | Production Design |
| Art | Cloudia Rebar | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Stephen Loomis | Costume Design |
| Camera | Dean Cundey | Director of Photography |
| Directing | John Carpenter | Director |
| Sound | John Carpenter | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | John Carpenter | Screenplay |
| Production | Barry Bernardi | Associate Producer |
| Production | Jake Eberts | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Jim Lucas | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frankie Bergman | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ken Chase | Makeup Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Benjamin Douglas | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Alan Levine | Production Manager |
| Directing | Jeffrey Chernov | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Larry Franco | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Eugene Booth | Assistant Property Master |
| Art | Lee B. Drygas | Swing |
| Crew | Joseph C. Fama | Propmaker |
| Art | Arthur Gelb | Graphic Designer |
| Art | Serge Genitempo | Standby Painter |
| Art | Chris Horner | Assistant Art Director |
| Art | Mike May | Property Master |
| Art | Marvin Salsberg | Construction Foreman |
| Art | Don Sutton | Leadman |
| Art | Ed Zingel | Painter |
| Crew | Sol Aquino | Carpenter |
| Crew | Michael W. Moore | Propmaker |
| Sound | Joseph F. Brennan | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Thomas Causey | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Carl Fischer | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Warren Hamilton Jr. | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Gregg Landaker | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Steve Maslow | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | David Ritscher | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Sound | Bill Varney | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | David Lewis Yewdall | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Nicholas James | Foley Editor |
| Sound | Mark Mangini | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Steve Rice | Dialogue Editor |
| Visual Effects | Roy Arbogast | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Crew | Pat Patterson | Special Effects |
| Crew | Eddie Surkin | Special Effects |
| Crew | Gary Zink | Special Effects |
| Crew | Brian Bevis | Special Effects |
| Crew | Kevin Pike | Special Effects |
| Crew | Mike Johnson | Stunts |
| Crew | David Cronenberg | Thanks |
| Crew | Roydon Clark | Stunts |
| Crew | Buff Brady | Stunts |
| Crew | Glory Fioramonti | Stunts |
| Crew | Bill Hart | Stunts |
| Crew | Kent Hays | Stunts |
| Crew | Fred Lerner | Stunts |
| Crew | Mags Kavanaugh | Stunts |
| Crew | William T. Lane | Stunts |
| Crew | Mike H. McGaughy | Stunts |
| Crew | John Moio | Stunts |
| Crew | Harvey Parry | Stunts |
| Crew | Jack Tyree | Stunts |
| Crew | George Sawaya | Stunts |
| Crew | Jesse Wayne | Stunt Double |
| Crew | Ted White | Stunts |
| Crew | George P. Wilbur | Stunts |
| Crew | Jack Verbois | Stunts |
| Crew | Tony Randel | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Crew | James Winburn | Stunts |
| Crew | Dick Warlock | Stunts |
| Crew | Jesse Wayne | Stunts |
| Crew | Roy Arbogast | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Visual Effects | James Cameron | Matte Painter |
| Visual Effects | Jena Holman | Matte Painter |
| Visual Effects | Robert Skotak | Matte Painter |
| Visual Effects | John C. Wash | Visual Effects |
| Sound | Alan Howarth | Sound Effects |
| Crew | Bob Minor | Stunts |
| Crew | Eddie Hice | Stunts |
| Crew | Loren Janes | Stunts |
| Crew | Andrew Overholtzer | Propmaker |
| Crew | Tony Brubaker | Stunts |
| Crew | Sandra Lee Gimpel | Stunts |
| Crew | James Cameron | Visual Effects Art Director |
| Crew | Dick Warlock | Stunt Coordinator |
