Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "world-war-three"

51. Uncommon Valor (1983)

R | 105 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ten years after his son went M.I.A. in Vietnam, U.S. Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in P.O.W. camps in Laos.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze, Robert Stack, Fred Ward

Votes: 11,687 | Gross: $30.50M

52. The Martian Chronicles (1980)

98 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

In the 21st century, Earth begins the colonization of Mars. However, things do not go as planned, at first due to the hostile Martian natives and later because of the self-destructive Earthmen.

Stars: Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey, Christopher Connelly

Votes: 2,526

53. 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: 4,114

54. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

PG | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A 20th century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time where Earth is threatened by alien invaders.

Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Pamela Hensley, Henry Silva

Votes: 6,907 | Gross: $21.67M

55. Flu (2013)

Not Rated | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Chaos ensues when a lethal, airborne virus infects the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometers from Seoul.

Director: Kim Sung-su | Stars: Jang Hyuk, Soo Ae, Min-ah Park, Yoo Hae-jin

Votes: 14,652

56. Impostor (2001)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

In the future, an alien race uses androids as bombs to attack Earth. A government weapons specialist is accused of being one such android and sets out to prove his innocence.

Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Shane Brolly, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe

Votes: 24,603 | Gross: $6.11M

57. Genesis II (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodrigues

Votes: 1,127

58. 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: 2,250

59. Left Behind III: World at War (2005)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

The world falls into chaos as Nicolae Carpathia detonates nuclear devices across the globe and stages multiple devastating attacks against both the Tribulation Force and an international militia, led by U.S. President Gerald Fitzhugh.

Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Jessica Steen

Votes: 4,264

60. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995 Video Game)

Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

CD-ROM adventure starring an omnipotent supercomputer calling itself AM (as in "I think, therefore I am."). Built by the Americans as the ultimate defense system, AM accidentally became self-aware and eventually goes insane.

Director: David Mullich | Stars: Harlan Ellison, Tom Myers, Julio Jeinson, Anton Latreque

Votes: 312

61. 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: 7,347

62. The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)

R | 103 min | Action, Sci-Fi

In the year 3000, the Earth has been rendered a desert by nuclear war. A group of survivors goes in search of rare and valuable water, but standing in their way are the evil Exterminators, who live only to cause pain and misery.

Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: Robert Iannucci, Alicia Moro, Luciano Pigozzi, Eduardo Fajardo

Votes: 1,341

63. The Unbelievable Truth (1989)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke, Julia McNeal

Votes: 6,317 | Gross: $0.55M

64. Romero (1989)

PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Director: John Duigan | Stars: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez

Votes: 2,462 | Gross: $1.32M

65. Endgame - Bronx lotta finale (1983)

TV-14 | 98 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A telepathic mutant recruits a post-World War III TV game-show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.

Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, George Eastman, Dino Conti

Votes: 1,407

66. 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

67. War Requiem (1989)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, War

A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors ... See full summary »

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes

Votes: 949

68. Shy (2023– )

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A shy young girl joins a superhero organization and battles villains as well as her own fears and insecurities.

Stars: Shino Shimoji, Mamiko Noto, Nao Tôyama, Tomokazu Sugita

Votes: 206

69. The Fallout Shelter (2024)

Drama | Active

When World War III is about to break out, a group of billionaires takes refuge in a luxury bunker. Through screens, they watch the spectacle of the world they knew collapsing above their heads.

Stars: Natalia Verbeke, Joaquín Furriel, Carlos Santos, Miren Ibarguren

70. 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: 723

71. 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: 2,904

72. The Atomic Cafe (1982)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, History

Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.

Directors: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty | Stars: Paul Tibbets, Harry S. Truman, W.H.P. Blandy, Brien McMahon

Votes: 4,553 | Gross: $0.02M

73. The Iron Triangle (1989)

R | 91 min | Drama, War

An American soldier and a Viet Cong guerrilla find common ground and become allies during the Vietnam war.

Director: Eric Weston | Stars: Beau Bridges, Haing S. Ngor, Liem Whatley, Johnny Hallyday

Votes: 542

74. 84C MoPic (1989)

R | 95 min | Drama, War

The title refers to the U.S. Army's former "MOS" (job code) for a combat cameraman. The story follows a unit of American G.I.s in Vietnam, all with different backgrounds and motives for being there, through the lens of his camera.

Director: Patrick Sheane Duncan | Stars: Jonathan Emerson, Nicholas Cascone, Jason Tomlins, Christopher Burgard

Votes: 1,945 | Gross: $0.15M

75. Invasion, U.S.A. (1952)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War

A group of people at a bar witness the unfolding events of a Soviet invasion of the USA.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Bice

Votes: 1,697 | Gross: $1.20M

76. The Last Man on Planet Earth (1999 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a world ruled and populated only by women, a young female scientist creates a male human being, genetically enhanced to refrain from violence.

Director: Les Landau | Stars: Julie Bowen, Paul Francis, Tamlyn Tomita, L. Scott Caldwell

Votes: 743

77. The Big Bang (1987)

76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Sex farce about Fred, an inept post WWIII superhero garbageman, who must prevent WW4 by disarming the continents of Virginia, where mutated feminists live, and USSSR, where mutated buttless men live. Beautiful Liberty is his only ally.

Director: Picha | Stars: Luis Rego, Georges Aminel, Perrette Pradier, Régine Teyssot

Votes: 348

78. The Time Machine (1978 TV Movie)

99 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.

Director: Henning Schellerup | Stars: John Beck, Priscilla Barnes, Andrew Duggan, Rosemary DeCamp

Votes: 455

79. Down River (2018)

70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand

Votes: 593

80. The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981)

PG | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Nostradamus and his predictions about the future.

Director: Robert Guenette | Stars: Orson Welles, Philip L. Clarke, Ray Laska, Bob Ruggiero

Votes: 1,246

81. The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

M | 90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

In post-nuclear-holocaust England, a handful of bizarre characters struggles on with their lives in the ruins, among endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore

Votes: 2,587

82. Whoops Apocalypse (1986)

R | 93 min | Comedy

A British satire on the beginning of WWIII.

Director: Tom Bussmann | Stars: Stuart Saunders, Graeme Garden, Marc Smith, Loretta Swit

Votes: 1,022

83. 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: 5,781

84. The Weather Underground (2002)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White

Votes: 3,774 | Gross: $0.56M

85. Blake et Mortimer (1997)

52 min | Animation, Adventure, Crime

The series follows the adventures of Philip Mortimer, a leading British scientist, and his friend Captain Francis Blake of MI5, as they battle diabolical masterminds, mad scientists, and their sworn enemy, Colonel Olrik.

Stars: William Sabatier, Jacques Frantz, Yves Barsacq, Henri Labussière

Votes: 488

86. Atomic Train (1999)

PG-13 | 61 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A train filled with atomic devices threatens to destroy the city of Denver. John Serger (an NTSB agent) has to prevent this from happening

Stars: Rob Lowe, Kristin Davis, Esai Morales, John Finn

Votes: 2,359

87. Whoops Apocalypse (1982)

138 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

During an election week, the U.S. president deals with the Russians, a deposed Shah and a stolen quark bomb while a terrorist plots an attack.

Stars: Barry Morse, John Barron, Ed Bishop, Bruce Montague

Votes: 332

88. Freedom Fighters (2003 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Mystery

In an alternate present, a vigilante named Chris Stone works to return New York City to its people as the Soviet Union continue their conquest for global rule.

Stars: David Thomas, Drew Massey, Henry Dittman, Brigitte Burdine

Votes: 765

89. Nightbreaker (1989 TV Movie)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama

Dr. Brown thinks back on his 30+ years working as an Army shrink in Nevada in 1956, when U.S. soldiers were exposed to A-bomb radiation.

Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Lea Thompson, Melinda Dillon

Votes: 504

90. Friend of the World (2020)

TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.

Director: Brian Patrick Butler | Stars: Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott

Votes: 90

91. The Challenge (1970 TV Movie)

74 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Gallery, a U.S. commando, and Yuro, an enemy commando, are sent to a no man's Pacific jungle island to capture a crashed U.S. space satellite. Whoever survives, wins. Their nations have agreed to this to avoid war, but they cheat.

Director: George McCowan | Stars: Darren McGavin, Broderick Crawford, James Whitmore, Skip Homeier

Votes: 253

92. 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

93. Sekai daisensô (1961)

110 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

Director: Shûe Matsubayashi | Stars: Furankî Sakai, Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Nobuko Otowa

Votes: 264

94. Deadland (2009)

R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Horror

A man must cross post-world war III terrain and the new martial-law to save his missing wife.

Director: Damon O'Steen | Stars: Gary Weeks, Brian Tee, William Katt, Harrison Page

Votes: 674

95. Where is Gilgamesh? (2024)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a Museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it takes to get it back from a group of smugglers. Along the way, he face his own inner demons.

Director: Karzan Kardozi | Stars: Barzan Yunis, Goran Dlshad, Ragash Kizhan, Yasin Omar

Votes: 217

96. Keeping Track (1986)

R | 102 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

The CIA, KGB and RCMP are after an honest lady banker and her crusading journalist friend after the two come into the possession of a superchip that could start WWIII, if it walls into the wrong hands.

Director: Robin Spry | Stars: Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Alan Scarfe, Ken Pogue

Votes: 127

97. Black Garden (2019)

90 min | Sci-Fi

Based on the 9th circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, Black Garden begins on Christmas Eve in the near future. It's eight days after the end of World War III and a handful of survivors wait ... See full summary »

Director: Shaun Wilson | Stars: Cara Culligan, Phil Edwards, Tammy Honey, Garry Keltie

Votes: 2,767

98. The Fifth Missile (1986 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama, Thriller

The crew of a Trident missile submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate... See full summary »

Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Robert Conrad, Sam Waterston, Richard Roundtree, Jonathan Banks

Votes: 164

99. 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

100. Desperate Remedies (1992)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune ... See full summary »

Directors: Stewart Main, Peter Wells | Stars: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa Chappell, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 411 | Gross: $0.07M