| By Dawn's Early Light (1990) | 6.9 | |
| WW3 (2001) | 5.0 | |
| The Diplomat (2023) | 8.0 | |
| The Day After (1983) | 7.0 | |
| Spooks (2002) | 8.3 |
World war three movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant world war three movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, realistic and exciting films and TV shows about / with world war three, world war, danger, disaster, heroes, military, race against time, violence, die hard and catastrophe plots mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as world war three: World War III (1982), Black Garden (2019), Countdown to Looking Glass (1984), By Dawn's Early Light (1990), Hunter Killer (2018), Future War 1986 (1982), Threads (1984), Azad (2017), The Day After (1983), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
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List of world war three movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
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 Col. Jake Caffey and a National Guard reckon unit. A stalemate ensues ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, epic ...
Plot:
world war three, cold war, president, u.s. president, spy, apocalypse, spy thriller, die hard, disaster, distopia, world war, epidemic ...
Time:
80s, near future, year 1987
Place:
alaska, russia, usa, soviet union, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set on Christmas Eve, eight days after the war ends, survivor Kate discovers a mysterious radio signal and befriends the voice. As she embarks on a journey to find its origins, Kate encounters the isolation and horror of a nuclear war and the failed ...
Style:
psychotronic, neo noir, dark, suspense, noir ...
Plot:
strong female lead, distopia, nuclear war, world war three, survival, false identity, betrayal, politics, lie, delusion, military, isolation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, mockumentary, tragic ending
Plot:
nuclear explosion, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, apocalypse, world war three, cold war, nuclear bomb, post apocalypse, found footage, u.s. president, president, catastrophe ...
Place:
usa, soviet union, saudi arabia, middle east, ussr
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a nuclear missile is launched by presumably Soviet forces toward Turkey, the beginning of the ultimate war to end all wars WW 3 is started. Powers Boothe, his girlfriend and copilot Rebecca DeMornay and their flight crew take off in a B 52 on ...
Style:
serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear explosion, world war three, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, nato, nuclear threat, aviation, nuclear bomb, doom, post apocalypse, politics ...
Time:
80s, year 1991, 90s
Place:
usa, nebraska, ussr, washington d.c., soviet union ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, China, France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy SEALs to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
submarine, navy, u.s. navy, warship, world war three, military coup, battleship, military base, save the day, naval battle, swat team, escapades ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pentagon, washington d.c., moscow russia, scottish highlands, scotland ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from both the US and the USSR governments, war breaks out and humanity faces a new bloodshed.
Style:
anime, apocalyptic, tense, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
world war three, cold war, nuclear war, doomsday, moral ambiguity, militarism, ethical dilemma, anti war, survival, hopelessness, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
80s, near future
Place:
usa, ussr, west germany, moscow russia, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Style:
depressing, grim, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, cold war, nuclear explosion, survival, world war three, nuclear, post apocalypse, distopia, post apocalyptic, radiation ...
Time:
80s, near future, distant future, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
england, northern england, europe, ussr, soviet union ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this futuristic thriller based around resistance against a tyrant government that's propagating religious, political, and racial polarization and xenophobia, a Muslim immigrant flees The West in hopes of leaving his secretive past behind to ...
Style:
rough, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, new world order, resistance, islamophobia, democracy, religion, radical, world war three, government, discrimination, freedom, anti semitism ...
Time:
future
Place:
turkey, pakistan, russia, china, mexico ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style:
futuristic, harsh, apocalyptic, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cold war, nuclear war, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear explosion, disaster, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, dystopia, radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, soviet union, kansas city, ussr ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now 007 must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Style:
suspense, saga, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
james bond, spy, 007, chase, female spy, world war three, top secret, hot and sexy, espionage, secret agent, secret service, female martial artist ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
hamburg germany, hong kong, vietnam, china, england ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Style:
captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful, political ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, nuclear threat, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, moral dilemma, politics, military life, disaster, danger, military, race against time, chaos ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
daring rescue, undercover, terrorism, hostage, rescue, one man army, escapades, save the day, rivalry, confined, danger, race against time ...
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a covert desert base is forced to divert World War III against a formidable adversary, a group of commandos and weaponized dinosaurs are hired to get the job done.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, dread, tense, serious ...
Plot:
dinosaur, animal attack, desert, zombie, monster, mission, dictator, war, mercenary, dangerous mission, world war three, bio weapon ...
Time:
jurassic, near future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Ethan Hunt and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity - which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe - with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan's past on their ...
Style:
fast paced, suspenseful, tense, cliffhanger, anamorphic ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, mission impossible, spy, airplane, nuclear war, arctic, underwater, final showdown, infiltration, trick, secret agent, submarine ...
Time:
2020s, near future, year 1996
Place:
south africa, england, austria, tower bridge london, big ben london ...
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, cerebral, satirical, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
satire, cold war, military, nuclear war, nuclear threat, nuclear explosion, u.s. air force, nuclear holocaust, nuclear bomb, doomsday, anti war, absurdism ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1942, 1930s
Place:
soviet union, washington d.c., persia, united kingdom, england ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre ...
Style:
apocalyptic, road movie, perverse, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, truck, desert, loner, car chase, planet, chase, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, oil ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future, year 1982, near future ...
Place:
australia, oceania, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
From the year 3005, a delegate from the future arrives in 1985 to convince the present leaders make certain World War III happens, which he guarantees will make for a better future. Having already caused natural disasters and catastrophes by coming ...
Style:
suspense, tension, political thriller, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
travel, propaganda, power struggle, manipulation, media manipulation, dystopia, television, conspiracy, ethical dilemma, paradox, moral ambiguity, prophecy ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
705
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 870 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
political thriller, tense, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
alternate history, cold war, dystopia, cold war era, resistance, occupation, oppression, totalitarianism, spy, president, u.s. president, propaganda ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological
Plot:
disaster, experiment, world war three, distopia, world war, sex crime, pedophile, isolation, culture clash, optimism, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
germany, frankfurt germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and "disappears". This focuses the attention of both U.S. Intelligence and ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, political, exciting, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
submarine, cold war, navy, espionage, spy, nuclear threat, politics, cold war era, water, cia, nuclear submarine, torpedo ...
Time:
80s, year 1990, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
russia, washington d.c., usa, atlantic ocean, maine ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A top US Air Force fighter pilot decides that his call sign of Black Angel means that he's a messenger of God. Freely committing murders as he goes, he steals a nuclear weapon and his plane. Taking a family hostage to help him, he works on ...
Style:
semi serious, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, hijacking, fighter pilot, radioactivity, space, world war, disaster, world war three, hostage, atomic bomb, u.s. air force, apocalypse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America." Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie "Red Skull", Captain America winds up frozen ...
Style:
serious, saga, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, world war two, martial arts, femme fatale, conspiracy, fish out of water, fortress, nazi, frozen alive, fistfight, terrorist, heroes ...
Time:
year 1936, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943, year 1993 ...
Place:
washington d.c., ohio, california, italy, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, political thriller
Plot:
coup d'etat, conspiracy, terrorism, political corruption, state affairs, betrayal, government agency, undercover, manhunt, special agent, revolution, danger ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by scientists and eyewitness seems to suggest that it is not. Three more ...
Style:
bad ending, apocalyptic, depressing, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
found footage, disaster, apocalypse, asteroids and comets, natural disaster, ufo, catastrophe, bad guys win, alien invasion, epidemic, bad guy, world war ...
Time:
90s
Place:
east asia, europe, wyoming, asia, south of france ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
JAG is an American legal drama television show with a distinct military theme, created by Donald P. Bellisario, and produced by Belisarius Productions in association with Paramount Network Television. The first season was co-produced with NBC ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
military, army investigation, lawyer, navy, court martial, insubordination, courtroom drama, military life, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer, price of justice, power relations ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Is relevant?
206K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method ...
Style:
cliffhanger, serious, stylized, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, president, political conspiracy, terrorist, terrorist plot, secret service, government agency, race against time, assassination of president, bodyguard, twists and turns, assassination attempt ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, action thriller, saga, realistic ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hacking, computer hacker, hacker, terrorism, conspiracy, gunfight, one man army, tough cop, lone hero, fbi, chaos, surveillance ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., maryland, los angeles, new york, baltimore ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
The seventh installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
spy, espionage, secret agent, cia agent, disguise, mission impossible, train wreck, spy thriller, undercover agent, cia, artificial intelligence, secret service ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
usa, italy, amsterdam, venice, rome italy ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
Plot kept under wraps. Described as action-packed spy series
Style:
dramatic, exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
espionage, secret agent, intelligence agency, agent, spy, erased memory, syndicate, memory, secret service, special agent, female warrior, world war ...
Time:
post world war one
Place:
wyoming, utah, morocco
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Follows Rim Chul Ryung heading back to South Korea in pursuit of a brutal and secret criminal organization. He teams up again with Kang Jin Tae, who volunteers to work with the North Korean in order to get back on the investigation team after a ...
Style:
crime thriller, captivating, entertaining, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
inter-korean relations, buddy cop, investigation, collaboration, agent, fbi, police investigation, crime boss, officer, criminal gang, partner, entertainment ...
Place:
korea, south korea, north korea, usa
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