Top World War III Scenario Films/Shows
by muybueno16 | created - 09 Oct 2018 | updated - 10 months ago | PublicSome of the best entertainment which documents a bigger wide scale disaster or attacks between two countries.
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1. By Dawn's Early Light (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A non-NATO nuclear missile is fired from Turkey at USSR, where it detonates. Soviet response is automatic as it's seen as a NATO missile. Can continued escalation be avoided? We follow the US president and a bomber crew.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, Martin Landau
Votes: 4,100
2. Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
R | 119 min | Action, Thriller
Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett
Votes: 292,521 | Gross: $98.93M
3. Hunter Killer (2018)
R | 121 min | Action, Thriller
An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Director: Donovan Marsh | Stars: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Linda Cardellini
Votes: 73,675 | Gross: $15.77M
4. Countdown to Looking Glass (1984 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.
Director: Fred Barzyk | Stars: Scott Glenn, Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver, Patrick Watson
Votes: 718
5. Sons of Liberty (2013)
TV-14 | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A special operations unit races to find and prevent the construction of a devastating micro nuclear device created by a group of radical mercenaries whose political beliefs blur the line between terrorist and revolutionary.
Director: Drew Hall | Stars: Tamer Hassan, Keith David, Elyse Levesque, Mark Sheppard
Votes: 338
6. Crimson Tide (1995)
R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza
Votes: 123,420 | Gross: $91.40M
7. Last Resort (I) (2012–2013)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A U.S. sub picks up Navy SEALs and receives an order for a nuke launch. Due to the circumstances of the order, the Captain refuses to fire. After escaping an attack from another U.S. sub, the crew and SEALs take refuge on a small island.
Stars: Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Daisy Betts, Camille De Pazzis
Votes: 22,180
8. The Bedford Incident (1965)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
An American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.
Director: James B. Harris | Stars: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam
Votes: 5,977
9. The Hunt for Red October (1990)
PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill
Votes: 214,887 | Gross: $122.01M
10. Hell and High Water (1954)
Approved | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Cold War, a scientific team refits a Japanese submarine and hires an ex-Navy officer to find a secret Chinese atomic island base and prevent a Communist plot against America that could trigger WW3.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 2,237
11. London Has Fallen (2016)
R | 99 min | Action, Thriller
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning is caught up in a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Director: Babak Najafi | Stars: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett
Votes: 169,743 | Gross: $62.68M
12. The Sum of All Fears (2002)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt
Votes: 124,485 | Gross: $118.91M
13. The West Wing (1999–2006)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama
Inside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.
Stars: Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney, John Spencer
Votes: 85,655
14. Madam Secretary (2014–2019)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Thriller
A political drama which looks into the life of the Secretary of State as she tries to balance work with family.
Stars: Téa Leoni, Tim Daly, Erich Bergen, Zeljko Ivanek
Votes: 26,566
15. WW 3 (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Sport
Terrorists release a deadly biological-warfare virus in the United States.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Lane Smith, Marin Hinkle, Michael Constantine
Votes: 446
16. World War III (1982)
200 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In 1987, Soviet paratroopers drop into Alaska to sabotage the oil pipeline in retaliation against a United States grain embargo. A skirmish occurs at a pumping station, lightly defended by ... See full summary »
Stars: David Soul, Brian Keith, Cathy Lee Crosby, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 796
17. World War 3
Action, Sci-Fi | Announced
An examination of what the world might look like in the future of the 21st century.
Director: Sam Raimi
18. Fail Safe (1964)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 24,428
19. Fail Safe (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Thriller
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Directors: Stephen Frears, Martin Pasetta | Stars: Walter Cronkite, Richard Dreyfuss, Noah Wyle, Brian Dennehy
Votes: 6,582
20. Danger Beneath the Sea (2001 TV Movie)
92 min | Thriller
An American submarine commander (Casper Van Dien) questions his superiors when they order a nuclear attack.
Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Gerald McRaney, Stewart Bick, Tammy Isbell
Votes: 540
21. Miracle Mile (1988)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in 70 minutes.
Director: Steve De Jarnatt | Stars: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar, Lou Hancock
Votes: 12,381 | Gross: $1.15M
22. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, War
An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 518,583 | Gross: $0.28M
23. Designated Survivor (2016–2019)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A low-level Cabinet member becomes President of the United States after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the line of succession.
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Adan Canto, Italia Ricci, Kal Penn
Votes: 104,579
24. The War Game (1966)
48 min | Drama, War
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff
Votes: 7,317
25. Amerika (1987)
870 min | Action, Drama
America has been bloodlessly taken over by the Soviet Union, leading to slave-labor camps for some, collaboration for others and rebellion for yet others.
Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Robert Urich, Wendy Hughes, Sam Neill
Votes: 653
26. American Assassin (2017)
R | 111 min | Action, Thriller
After the death of his girlfriend at the hands of terrorists, Mitch Rapp is drawn into the world of counterterrorism, mentored by tough-as-nails former U.S. Navy S.E.A.L. Stan Hurley.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Taylor Kitsch
Votes: 91,050 | Gross: $36.25M
27. Check Point (2017)
TV-MA | 97 min | Action, Thriller, War
Port City North Carolina: During a routine camp out, a local vagrant, a former marine discovers plans for an invasion in America. When he tries to notify the local Sheriff about his ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas J. Churchill | Stars: Kenny Johnson, William Forsythe, Tyler Mane, Bill Goldberg
Votes: 1,152
28. The Peacekeeper (1997)
R | 98 min | Action
When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.
Director: Frédéric Forestier | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Michael Sarrazin, Montel Williams, Roy Scheider
Votes: 2,896
29. Counterstrike (2002 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
When a peace summit upon the QE2 is attacked by terrorists, estranged brothers, one an ATF agent, the other a Secret Service agent, must come together to thwart the extremist's plans.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Rob Estes, Joe Lando, Rachel Blakely, Marie Matiko
Votes: 611
30. Shiri (1999)
R | 125 min | Action, Thriller
South Korean agents Ryu and Lee are tracking a female assassin from North Korea who has mysteriously disappeared. With new killings and the theft of a deadly bomb, time is running out to catch her.
Director: Kang Je-kyu | Stars: Han Suk-kyu, Choi Min-sik, Yunjin Kim, Song Kang-ho
Votes: 8,583 | Gross: $0.10M
31. Tae-poong (2005)
R | 124 min | Action
A modern-day pirate plans a massive attack on North and South Korea.
Director: Kyung-taek Kwak | Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Lee Jung-jae, Lee Mi-yeon, David Lee McInnis
Votes: 1,392 | Gross: $0.14M
32. Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Thriller
John McClane and a young hacker join forces to take down master cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel in Washington D.C.
Director: Len Wiseman | Stars: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Maggie Q
Votes: 420,805 | Gross: $134.53M
33. Safe House (1998)
TV-14 | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
A retired US black ops agent gets Alzheimer's, while other ex agents are being killed. He has incriminating data on a presidential candidate.
Director: Eric Steven Stahl | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Hector Elizondo, Joy Kilpatrick
Votes: 2,660
34. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher
Votes: 204,761 | Gross: $125.33M
35. Danger Beneath the Sea (2001 TV Movie)
92 min | Thriller
An American submarine commander (Casper Van Dien) questions his superiors when they order a nuclear attack.
Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Gerald McRaney, Stewart Bick, Tammy Isbell
Votes: 540
36. Take Point (2018)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Thriller
A captain and his team of 12 soldiers infiltrate a secret underground bunker to take out a target in the Korean demilitarized zone.
Director: Byung-woo Kim | Stars: Ha Jung-woo, Lee Sun-kyun, Jennifer Ehle, Kevin Durand
Votes: 1,508 | Gross: $0.11M
37. Threads (1984 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May
Votes: 20,148
38. Control (1987)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
Fifteen strangers take part in an experiment to learn whether such a group can survive in a cramped disaster fallout shelter.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Kate Nelligan, Kate Reid, Burt Lancaster
Votes: 336
39. Testament (1983)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.
Director: Lynne Littman | Stars: Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal
Votes: 7,225 | Gross: $2.04M
40. The Last Ship (2014–2018)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
The crew of a naval destroyer is forced to confront the reality of a new existence when a pandemic kills off most of the earth's population.
Stars: Eric Dane, Adam Baldwin, Charles Parnell, Travis Van Winkle
Votes: 63,840
41. The State Within (2006)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After a plane explodes over Washington D.C. panic begins to envelop the British embassy, and its ambassador to the U.S. Mark Brydon finds himself caught up in a potentially damaging diplomatic incident.
Stars: Jason Isaacs, Ben Daniels, Eva Birthistle, Neil Pearson
Votes: 2,445
42. Without Warning (1994 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Sci-Fi
3 fragments of an asteroid hit USA, China and France. The events are covered by TV news reports. More meteors come. Is it natural events or alien aggression?
Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Sander Vanocur, Jane Kaczmarek, Bree Walker, Dwier Brown
Votes: 1,495
43. Y2K (1999)
R | 106 min | Action, Thriller
On the eve of the new millenium, the American military are alerted of a long missing nuclear missile hidden deep in the jungle which is set to go off in January 2000, due to the millenium bug. They must race against time to stop it.
Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Jaimz Woolvett, Ed O'Ross, Sarah Chalke
Votes: 611
44. Flight of Black Angel (1991 TV Movie)
R | 102 min | Action, Thriller
A US Air Force pilot steals a nuclear bomb and sets off on what he believes is a divine mission against an American city.
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Peter Strauss, William O'Leary, James O'Sullivan, K Callan
Votes: 637
45. Phantom: The Submarine (1999)
110 min | Action, Thriller
Korea's first nuclear submarine and a crew with no record of existence embark on a do-or-die mission into the deep waters of the Pacific.
Director: Byung-chun Min | Stars: Choi Min-soo, Jung Woo-sung, Sol Kyung-gu, Byeon-chul Min
Votes: 499
46. Phantom (I) (2013)
R | 98 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
Director: Todd Robinson | Stars: Ed Harris, Julian Adams, David Duchovny, William Fichtner
Votes: 15,168 | Gross: $0.49M
47. Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
R | 146 min | Drama, Thriller
An imprisoned rogue USAF general with a secret personal agenda, escapes the brig and takes over an ICBM silo, threatening to start WW3.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 3,728
48. The Rock (1996)
R | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer
Votes: 358,344 | Gross: $134.07M
49. Warhead (1996)
R | 96 min | Action, Thriller
After seizing an American nuclear missile silo, a terrorist group demands $1 billion and the president's resignation - or they will destroy Washington, D. C.
Director: Mark Roper | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Joe Lara, Elizabeth Giordano, Brian O'Shaughnessy
Votes: 278
50. A State of Emergency (1985)
PG | 104 min | Drama
A nuclear physicist concludes that constant nuclear testing will bring about the apocalypse, so he attempts to warn US and USSR officials, as well as contact a Portuguese women who claims Virgin Marry warned her about this in 1911.
Director: Richard C. Bennett | Stars: Martin Sheen, Fionnula Flanagan, Ramon Estevez, Tim Pigott-Smith
Votes: 89
51. Doomsdayer (2000)
R | 93 min | Action
A diabolical industrialist who thinks the world is dangerously overpopulated, prepares to use his space-based weapon to cause widespread nuclear meltdowns at power plants around the world.
Director: Michael J. Sarna | Stars: Joe Lara, Udo Kier, January Isaac Bodlovic, Brigitte Nielsen
Votes: 343
52. Chain of Command (2000)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Secret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclear arsenal before massive destruction ensues.
Director: John Terlesky | Stars: Roy Scheider, Patrick Muldoon, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Biehn
Votes: 928
53. Last Stand (2000)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A small band of desperate freedom fighters must topple a vicious dictator before he destroys mankind's last hope.
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl | Stars: Kate Rodger, Josh Barker, Orestes Matacena, Katerina Brozová
Votes: 117
54. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A secret military team, SG-1, is formed to explore other planets through the recently discovered Stargates.
Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge
Votes: 101,476
55. World War Four (2019)
86 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The Nuclear thriller that predicted the Ukraine war three years before it happened. The most chillingly real nuclear war film of the last ten years.
Director: A.K. Strom | Stars: Morgan Bradley, Graham Vincent, Frederick Dodson, Derek Good
Votes: 233
56. Homeland (2011–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
Stars: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Damian Lewis, Rupert Friend
Votes: 361,093
57. Massive Retaliation (1984)
90 min | Drama, War
Three families that are best friends head to their secret retreat when WW3 seems to be nearing. The adults arrive at the retreat and must endure the stress to come while the children are ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas A. Cohen | Stars: Christopher Burton, Molly Cohen, Doug Santana, Alex Drude
Votes: 152
58. Wrong Is Right (1982)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross
Votes: 2,267 | Gross: $3.38M
59. 24 (2001–2010)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Counter Terrorism Agent Jack Bauer races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster.
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert
Votes: 197,121
60. 24: Live Another Day (2014)
TV-14 | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Four years after Jack Bauer went on the run, the CIA agents in London manage to capture Bauer; one of their agents called Kate Morgan suspects he is up to something, and President Heller's condition is sparking worries with his staff.
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Yvonne Strahovski, Tate Donovan, Mary Lynn Rajskub
Votes: 46,726
61. The Unit (2006–2009)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A secret US military group conducts covert operations across the world, facing several life-threatening situations during their missions.
Stars: Dennis Haysbert, Regina Taylor, Audrey Marie Anderson, Robert Patrick
Votes: 23,148
62. E-Ring (2005–2006)
60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Major Jim Tisnewski, until recently an active special forces commando, takes up a Pentagon job as assistant of US Army colonel Eli McNulty. He must now learn to battle the Pentagon way ... See full summary »
Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Dennis Hopper, Kelly Rutherford
Votes: 1,208
63. Strike Back (2010–2020)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive unit of British military intelligence. A team of special operations personnel conduct several high risk missions across the globe.
Stars: Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Michelle Lukes, Daniel MacPherson
Votes: 33,515
64. SEAL Team (2017–2024)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Drama, War
The lives of the elite Navy SEALs as they train, plan, and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions the United States of America can ask.
Stars: David Boreanaz, Neil Brown Jr., A.J. Buckley, Toni Trucks
Votes: 33,012
65. La Femme Nikita (1997–2001)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A clandestine anti-terrorist organization fakes the death of a convicted murderer and trains her in the fighting skills necessary to succeed in her new job.
Stars: Peta Wilson, Don Francks, Eugene Robert Glazer, Roy Dupuis
Votes: 10,820
66. Revolution (2012–2014)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Fifteen years after a permanent global blackout, a group of revolutionaries seek to drive out a tyrannical militia that's taken over the former United States of America.
Stars: Billy Burke, Tracy Spiridakos, Giancarlo Esposito, Zak Orth
Votes: 86,088
67. Armstrong (1998)
R | 99 min | Action, Thriller
Former Navy SEAL "Rod Armstrong" (Frank Zagarino) is now a freelance military trainer living in Moscow, Russia, who is unexpectedly visited by the man (Charles Napier) who trained him as a ... See full summary »
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Kimberley Kates, Frank Zagarino, Charles Napier, Joe Lara
Votes: 499
68. Commander in Chief (2005–2006)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
MacKenzie Allen becomes the first woman American president after she ascends to the job following the death of president Teddy Bridges.
Stars: Geena Davis, Donald Sutherland, Harry Lennix, Kyle Secor
Votes: 3,560
69. Downdraft (1996 TV Movie)
R | 101 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Only Special Forces agent Jack Slater and his computer programming sidekick can save the world from Armageddon when the supercomputer masterminding America's nuclear initiatives goes berserk with power and decides to launch the missiles.
Director: Michael Mazo | Stars: Vincent Spano, Kate Vernon, Paul Koslo, John Novak
Votes: 126
70. Jack Ryan (2018–2023)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Up-and-coming CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, is thrust into dangerous field assignments.
Stars: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly, Abbie Cornish
Votes: 175,728
71. The Berlin File (2013)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Thriller
Jong-seong, a North Korean ghost agent, interrupts an illegal arms sale in Berlin. A notorious North Korean agent tests the loyalties of everyone involved as Jong-Seong prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Director: Ryu Seung-wan | Stars: Ha Jung-woo, Han Suk-kyu, Ryu Seung-beom, Jun Ji-hyun
Votes: 7,634 | Gross: $0.67M
72. The Art of War III: Retribution (2009 Video)
R | 88 min | Action, Thriller
A Secret Agent must prevent North Korean terrorist from acquiring a nuclear device.
Director: Gerry Lively | Stars: Anthony 'Treach' Criss, Warren Derosa, Lee Sung Hi, Janet Carroll
Votes: 1,007
73. Medusa's Child (1997 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 240 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Vincent Spano, Lori Loughlin, Gail O'Grady, Kevin Dillon
Votes: 496
74. Broken Arrow (1996)
R | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the U.S. military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans.
Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo
Votes: 105,284 | Gross: $70.77M
75. Depth Charge (2008 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Thriller
On his final voyage a commandeer aboard a nuclear submarine is making a shocking bid for world peace. With the help of mercenaries he takes over the sub in order to hold Washington D.C. and the world hostage.
Director: Terrence O'Hara | Stars: Jason Gedrick, Eric Roberts, Barry Bostwick, Chris Warren
Votes: 557
76. Executive Decision (1996)
R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation.
Director: Stuart Baird | Stars: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, Steven Seagal, John Leguizamo
Votes: 61,615 | Gross: $56.57M
77. The Enemy Within (1994 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Thriller
A Colonel working at the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a plot by his superior to use military force to remove the elected President, who always opposed Pentagon budget increases, and to replace him with a much tamer Vice-President.
Director: Jonathan Darby | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany, Jason Robards
Votes: 1,632
78. Freedom Strike (1998)
R | 93 min | Drama, Action
When a peace treaty between America and Syria is thwarted, the renegade head of the Syrian army retaliates in a major way. He steals a nuclear weapon that only the Freedom Strike team can ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry P. Jacobs | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Tone Loc, Felicity Waterman, Jay Anthony
Votes: 482
79. MI-5 (2002–2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.
Stars: Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Nicola Walker, Rupert Penry-Jones
Votes: 18,413
80. Geostorm (2017)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.
Director: Dean Devlin | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 118,586 | Gross: $33.70M
81. Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006 Video)
R | 96 min | Action, Thriller
Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...
Director: James Dodson | Stars: Nicholas Gonzalez, Matthew Bushell, Keith David, Denis Arndt
Votes: 5,777
82. No Easy Days (2018)
45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The President's daughter is kidnapped and held ransom by a British mercenary, and a rebellious Navy SEAL is the only hope of saving her.
Stars: Sean Brosnan, Simon Phillips, Michael Hogan, Peter Outerbridge
Votes: 481
83. Salt (2010)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Thriller
A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski
Votes: 330,249 | Gross: $118.31M
84. Air Force One Is Down (2013)
TV-PG | 180 min | Action
Alistair Maclean's highly charged novel is brought to life for a contemporary audience in this tense, international thriller.
Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Jamie Thomas King, Emilie de Ravin, Rupert Graves
Votes: 602
85. The Day After (1983 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum
Votes: 18,177
86. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
R | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes
Votes: 418,694 | Gross: $150.37M
87. The Brink (2015)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
Top U.S. government and military scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.
Stars: Jack Black, Tim Robbins, Pablo Schreiber, Aasif Mandvi
Votes: 14,747
88. The Last Enemy (2008)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Britain has been transformed into a security state. A mathematical genius's search for the truth about his brother's death catapults him into a conspiracy and a love affair.
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anamaria Marinca, Max Beesley, Robert Carlyle
Votes: 2,702
89. Battletruck (1982)
PG | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Post World War III futuristic tale of collapsed governments & bankrupt countries heralding a new lawless age.
Director: Harley Cokeliss | Stars: Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright, Bruno Lawrence
Votes: 1,531
90. The Sacrifice (1986)
PG | 149 min | Drama
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir
Votes: 31,007 | Gross: $0.30M
91. First Strike (1984)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A U.S. Navy submarine captain tries to prevent the Soviets from trying to launch World War III.
Director: Allan Kuskowski | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Paul Mantee, Bart Braverman, Leon Askin
Votes: 63
92. JAG (1995–2005)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The cases of Harmon Rabb, former Navy fighter pilot, and his fellow lawyers of the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's office.
Stars: David James Elliott, Catherine Bell, Patrick Labyorteaux, John M. Jackson
Votes: 20,022
93. Bushwick (2017)
TV-MA | 94 min | Action, Thriller
When a U.S. based military force invades their Brooklyn neighborhood, 20-year-old Lucy and war veteran Stupe must depend on each other to survive.
Directors: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion | Stars: Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Angelic Zambrana, Jeremie Harris
Votes: 13,891
94. Black Thunder (II) (1998)
R | 85 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A top secret stealth fighter is stolen. Only Navy Test Pilot Vince Connors can recover the plane and bring it back in one piece. Battling terrorists, and flying with deadly nerve gas, he has to evade his mentor, now the enemy's top pilot.
Director: Rick Jacobson | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Richard Norton, Michael Cavanaugh, Nancy Valen
Votes: 621
95. Red Alert (1977 TV Movie)
95 min | Thriller
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew inside.
Director: William Hale | Stars: William Devane, Michael Brandon, Adrienne Barbeau, Ralph Waite
Votes: 244
96. Special Bulletin (1983 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC... See full summary »
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Ed Flanders, Kathryn Walker, Roxanne Hart, Christopher Allport
Votes: 1,328
97. Desert Thunder (1999)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
Terrorists threaten to launch a missile armed with deadly disease at Europe. A special unit is put together to stop them.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Tim Abell, Daniel Baldwin, Ari Barak, Melissa Brasselle
Votes: 428
98. Rangers (2000 Video)
R | 99 min | Action
A black ops unit goes to middle east after a terrorist. They are betrayed and their operative is caught. Later, unit leader starts an investigation. Meanwile the enemy offers the operative a chance for revenge against his superiors.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Glenn Plummer, Matt McCoy, Corbin Bernsen, Dartanyan Edmonds
Votes: 255
99. Kandahar (2023)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A CIA operative and his translator flee from special forces in Afghanistan after exposing a covert mission.
Director: Ric Roman Waugh | Stars: Tom Rhys Harries, Farhad Bagheri, Gerard Butler, Mitchell LaFortune
Votes: 33,912
100. Confidential Assignment (2017)
Not Rated | 124 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.
Director: Kim Sung-hoon | Stars: Hyun Bin, Yoo Hae-jin, Kim Ju-hyuk, Lee Hae-young
Votes: 4,530 | Gross: $0.48M
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