Description: Movies & Series featuring assassinations, bombings, and other such plots lined or directly revolving around terrorism.
Suggestions & Favorites much appreciated!
Check my other lists for so many more that are broken down into specified genres like this one! If I missed any plz let me know! https://www.primewire.ag/playlists?user_id=28527
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Patriot Games
( 1992 )
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.
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The Jackal
( 1997 )
An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.
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Clear and Present Danger
( 1994 )
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
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Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
( 2018 )
Jack Ryan is a drama featuring Tom Clancy's popular hero Jack Ryan billed as a new contemporary take on the character in his prime as a CIA analyst/operative using the novels as source material.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
( 2014 )
Jack Ryan, as a young covert C.I.A. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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24
( 2001 )
Jack Bauer, agent of CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) faces threats against his country and himself in this action packed show. Each season contains of one day, each episode shows one hour of Jack Bauer's day. 24 is the only action show in real time and gained a lot of fans during the years with this concept.
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Homeland
( 2011 )
The winner of 6 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series, Homeland is an edge-of-your-seat sensation. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody is both a decorated hero and a serious threat. CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar. The delicate dance these two complex characters perform, built on lies, suspicion, and desire, is at the heart of this gripping, emotional thriller in which nothing short of the fate of our nation is at stake.
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Traitor
( 2008 )
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
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'71
( 2014 )
In 1971, a young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.
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Air Force One
( 1997 )
Communist radicals led by Ivan Korshunov hijack Air Force One with US President James Marshall and his family on board. Vice President Kathryn Bennett negotiates from Washington D.C., while Marshall fights to rescue the hostages on board.
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The Devil's Own
( 1997 )
A police officer uncovers the real identity of his house-guest, an I.R.A. terrorist in hiding.
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Body of Lies
( 2008 )
A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.
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Betrayed
( 1988 )
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
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Broken Arrow
( 1996 )
Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the U.S. military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans.
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Black Sunday
( 1977 )
When a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.
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The Boxer
( 1998 )
Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.
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Arlington Road
( 1999 )
A man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be and their secrets could be deadly.
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Cleanskin
( 2012 )
A British secret service agent is faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a British-born suicide bomber and his terrorist cell.
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Cal
( 1984 )
A young man fraught with guilt longs to defect from the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is drawn to the widow of a slain Protestant policeman but must hide his secret that he was involved in her husband's murder and evade the authorities.
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Dead Bang
( 1989 )
A man kills a storekeeper and a cop. LASD homicide detective Jerry Beck gets the case. His murder suspect is connected to a heavily armed white supremacy group.
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The Crying Game
( 1993 )
A British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.
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The Enforcer
( 1976 )
Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.
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Flightplan
( 2005 )
A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane.
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Imperium
( 2016 )
A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist.
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Five Fingers
( 2006 )
In Morocco to assist with the creation of a food charity, a Dutchman is abducted by a terrorist.
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London Has Fallen
( 2016 )
After the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. The President of the United States, his formidable secret service head and a British MI-6 agent who trusts no one are the only people that have any hope of stopping it.
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Olympus Has Fallen
( 2013 )
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.
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Angel Has Fallen
( 2019 )
Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President, and now must evade his own agency, and the FBI, as he tries to uncover the real threat.
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
( 2009 )
Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus.
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Munich
( 2006 )
After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
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Executive Decision
( 1996 )
When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation.
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The Park Is Mine
( 1985 )
Vietnam veteran Mitch wants to raise awareness of how veterans, the elderly, and the underprivileged are overlooked. He takes Central Park hostage for 72 hours on Veterans' Day weekend and must defend his position with gunfire.
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Nighthawks
( 1981 )
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
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Passenger 57
( 1992 )
Airline security specialist John Cutter, finally returning to the job after his wife's death, finds himself in the middle of a hijacking by terrorists led by notorious international criminal Charles Rane.
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Non-Stop
( 2014 )
An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages demanding $150 million into an off-shore account, or someone will die every 20 minutes.
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Red Eye
( 2005 )
Lisa on her flight to Miami befriends Jackson who turns out to be a terrorist. Holding her hostage, he forces her to help him assassinate the United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.
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The Peacemaker
( 1997 )
A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.
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The Siege
( 1998 )
The secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York City, which leads to the declaration of martial-law.
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The Terrorists
( 1975 )
In a Scandinavian country, national security chief Colonel Tahlvik is tasked to rescue the passengers of a hijacked British airliner while the British Ambassador is being held hostage at his residence by another terrorist team.
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Rollercoaster
( 1977 )
A nameless young terrorist threatens to sabotage roller coasters at various American amusement parks if he isn't paid a huge ransom. Safety inspector Harry Calder is reluctantly drawn into a game of cat and mouse, with many lives at risk.
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The Rock
( 1996 )
An FBI chemical weapons expert, and a former SAS solider turned political prisoner, must break into Alcatraz prison when a rogue military group, led by a renegade general, take it over and threaten a nerve gas attack on San Francisco.
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Ronin
( 1998 )
A freelancing former U.S. intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that's wanted by both the Irish and the Russian governments.
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Second in Command
( 2006 )
The new military attache is also second in command at the US embassy in "Moldavia". The loser at the recent presidential election isn't letting that stop him. The president seeks protection at the US embassy bringing it under attack.
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Speed
( 1994 )
A deranged bomb expert, Howard Payne, rigs a city bus with a bomb that will explode if it drops below 50 mph. It's up to officer Jack Traven and passenger Annie Porter to work together to keep the bus moving and save everyone on board.
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Speed 2: Cruise Control
( 1997 )
A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.
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The Sum of All Fears
( 2002 )
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to incite a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Glykia symmoria
( 1983 )
A band of handsome Athenian pariahs waiting for a miracle have a fateful encounter with the ever-present state instead. And as the law's suffocating stranglehold tightens around them, the shotguns have the final say.
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True Lies
( 1994 )
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used-car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
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Two-Minute Warning
( 1976 )
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
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Under Siege
( 1992 )
Ex US Navy Seal turned cook, Casey Ryback, is the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of the US battleship The Missouri to obtain it's nuclear warheads.
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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
( 1995 )
Casey Ryback, is on vacation, with his recently orphaned niece to attend his brothers funeral by train but when terrorists hijack it, to use as a mobile base to hack a top secret destructive US satellite, Ryback must stop them.
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Phone Booth
( 2003 )
Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart's negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.
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Unthinkable
( 2010 )
Follows a black-ops interrogator and an F.B.I. agent who try to press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S.
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Vantage Point
( 2008 )
The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
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The Wind that Shakes the Barley
( 2007 )
Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
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Wrong Is Right
( 1982 )
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.
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White House Down
( 2013 )
While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of dangerous terrorists.
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Eye in the Sky
( 2016 )
Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.
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Flight 93
( 2006 )
Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9-11 terrorist attack.
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United 93
( 2006 )
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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The Path to 9/11
( 2006 )
Where were you on 9/11? Relive the events of that fateful day and the years leading up to it with this ABC miniseries that takes you to the streets of New York, drops you in the center of a riot in Pakistan, and into the meeting rooms of the CIA, the FBI, and the White House. A dramatization of the events detailed in 2004's national bestseller The 9/11 Commission Report.
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DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
( 2003 )
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts.
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World Trade Center
( 2006 )
Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.
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Patriots Day
( 2017 )
The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.
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The Kingdom
( 2007 )
A team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
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The Final Option
( 1983 )
It's suspected that a peace/anti-nuke organization in UK has some extremists willing to use terrorism. The action will probably be against an embassy in London. The SAS/Special Air Service try to get the organization infiltrated.
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Bloody Sunday
( 2002 )
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
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Five Minutes of Heaven
( 2009 )
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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In the Name of the Father
( 1994 )
An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
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Four Lions
( 2010 )
Four incompetent British terrorists from Sheffield, set out to train for and commit an act of terror.
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Omagh
( 2004 )
An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
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6 Days
( 2017 )
In April 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London and took all inside hostage. Over the next six days a tense standoff took place, all the while a group of highly trained soldiers from the SAS prepared for a raid the world had never seen.
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Hunger
( 2008 )
Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
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Catch a Fire
( 2006 )
A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.
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Who Killed Captain Alex?
( 2015 )
Uganda's president gives Captain Alex the mission to defeat the Tiger Maffia, but Alex gets killed in the process. Upon hearing the tragic news, his brother investigates to avenge Alex, hence the title Who Killed Captain Alex.
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Black Terrorist
( 1978 )
This Film Is Based On A True Story - Every Shocking Detail Actually Happened!
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End Game
( 2006 )
A secret Service agent and a news reporter investigate the conspiracy behind the assassination of the President.
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Endgame
( 2010 )
A story based on the covert discussions that brought down the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
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To Strike
( 2013 )
The film is based on stylized depiction of actual life events surrounding the war on terror in Pakistan including the attack on a Police Academy at Lahore in 2009. Major Mujtaba is a former army officer, who took an early retirement from the service. The plot involves a counter-terrorism operation being conducted in the Northwestern tribal region of Pakistan, led by Ehtesham and coordinated by an intelligence officer played by Ayesha. Ehtesham and the intelligence officer come to know of a major terrorist attack that can only be countered with the help of Major Mujtaba.
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22 July
( 2018 )
A three-part story of Norway's worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway's political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.
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A Mighty Heart
( 2007 )
Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband Daniel when he goes missing in Pakistan.
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Lion of the Desert
( 1981 )
In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
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The General
( 1998 )
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
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Michael Collins
( 1996 )
Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
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V for Vendetta
( 2006 )
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
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Argo
( 2012 )
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
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Syriana
( 2005 )
A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.
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Fair Game
( 2010 )
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
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Route Irish
( 2011 )
The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to discover the truth.
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Stop-Loss
( 2008 )
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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The Hurt Locker
( 2009 )
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
( 2008 )
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
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American Assassin
( 2017 )
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.
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Salt
( 2010 )
A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
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The Take
( 2016 )
A young pickpocket and an unruly CIA agent team up on an anti-terrorist mission in France.
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Shooter
( 2007 )
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after hearing of a plot to kill the President. After being-double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.
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