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

1. Watchmen (2009)

R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman

Votes: 581,995 | Gross: $107.51M

2. X: First Class (2011)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Sci-Fi

In the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik's vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to divide them.

Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon

Votes: 723,112 | Gross: $146.41M

3. 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: 517,586 | Gross: $0.28M

4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.

Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson

Votes: 502,301 | Gross: $337.14M

5. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Diana must contend with a work colleague, and with a businessman whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing.

Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal

Votes: 291,537 | Gross: $46.37M

6. Warcraft (2016)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

As an Orc horde invades the planet Azeroth using a magic portal, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war.

Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper

Votes: 278,589 | Gross: $47.37M

7. Midway (2019)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans

Votes: 94,340 | Gross: $56.85M

8. 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

R | 102 min | Action, Drama

Greek general Themistocles of Athens leads the naval charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

Director: Noam Murro | Stars: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson

Votes: 315,721 | Gross: $106.58M

9. Get Smart (2008)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, is tasked with preventing a terrorist attack from rival spy agency KAOS.

Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, Dwayne Johnson

Votes: 228,507 | Gross: $130.32M

10. The Living Daylights (1987)

PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies, and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker

Votes: 105,769 | Gross: $51.19M

11. Battle of Britain (1969)

G | 132 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens

Votes: 24,487 | Gross: $4.36M

12. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

M | 100 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert

Votes: 10,139

13. 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: 24,382

14. Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, History

The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith

Votes: 8,305 | Gross: $6.54M

15. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Approved | 131 min | Action, Drama, History

Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave

Votes: 8,053

16. Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004 TV Movie)

PG | 89 min | Drama, History, War

A dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, James Remar, Timothy Bottoms, Ian Mune

Votes: 3,691

17. 9/11: Inside the President's War Room (2021)

TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, History

9/11 from the President's perspective, with exclusive access to information from the one's that had to take decisions during the World Trade Center's attack.

Director: Adam Wishart | Stars: Richard Keil, George W. Bush, Andrew Card, Condoleezza Rice

Votes: 3,597

18. The Werewolf of Washington (1973)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Horror

Reporter having affair with president's daughter sent to Hungary, bitten by wolf then transferred back to Washington where bodies appear.

Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Katalin Kallay, Henry Ferrentino, Despo Diamantidou

Votes: 1,215

19. An Acceptable Loss (2018)

R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller

Libby teaches at a university but 4 years ago she was top aide to VP Rachel and was part of a total victory action. Rachel is now US president and worried about Libby keeping quiet. Libby also has a student spying on her.

Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Tavassoli, Deanna Dunagan

Votes: 1,600 | Gross: $0.03M

20. 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

21. The Sinking of the Laconia (2010– )

Drama, History, War

Dramatisation of the true story of the sinking of the liner Laconia by a German U-boat in 1942 through the eyes of six survivors.

Stars: Andrew Buchan, Ken Duken, Lindsay Duncan, Thomas Kretschmann

Votes: 1,201

22. 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: 5,775

23. The Lincoln Project (2022)

TV-MA | 57 min | Documentary

Five-part documentary series takes viewers inside the war rooms of the SuperPAC of former elite Republican strategists and consultants who joined forces for the sole purpose of saving democracy by bringing down Donald Trump.

Stars: Stuart Stevens, Rick Wilson, Reed Galen, Mike Madrid

Votes: 409

24. Retreat, Hell! (1952)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, War

The saga of a battalion of U.S. Marines during the Korean War, starting with their training, landing at Inchon in 1950, advance into North Korea and their subsequent retreat back to the 38th parallel.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise, Russ Tamblyn

Votes: 543

25. By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (2009)

116 min | Documentary

Nearly a year before Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency, two filmmakers began to roll cameras on the young senator. Over the next 19 months, across the USA, the daily events of the presidential campaign are chronicled.

Directors: Amy Rice, Alicia Sams | Stars: Barack Obama, Neil Abercrombie, Dick Armey, David Axelrod

Votes: 1,151

26. Sky Commando (1953)

Approved | 69 min | Drama, War

During the Korean War, two junior officers discuss their colonel's dour reputation dating back to his WW2 service in the bomber and reconnaissance command.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dan Duryea, Frances Gifford, Mike Connors, Michael Fox

Votes: 81

27. This Is Living (2018)

76 min | Documentary

Chris Worthington set out to document what eternal life truly is according to the words of Jesus Christ. He ended up venturing to the Bahamas, Guatemala and Israel capturing supernatural demonstrations and faith provoking interviews.

Director: Chris Worthington | Stars: Todd White, Daniel Kolenda, Scott Lee, Nathan Morris

Gross: $0.04M

28. Futurama: Game of Drones (2016 Video Game)

T | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Professor Farnsworth has invented new delivery drones to do Fry's job for him. Match four of the same color to beat the levels of this new original story.

Stars: John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Votes: 39

29. Churchill: Behind the Scenes Featurette (2017 Video)

22 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Stars: Brian Cox, Bartholomew Cariss, Austin Compson-Bradford, Richard Durden

Votes: 12

30. National Geographic: Inside the Pentagon (2002 TV Movie)

88 min | Documentary

This program provides a very broad brush overview of the history and responsibilities of the Pentagon with commentary by America's highest ranking soldiers but the primary focus is on 9/11.

Director: Nancy LeBrun

Votes: 38

31. Das Kommando (2004 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, Thriller

General Heinz Büchner is in charge of a special unit of the German army. His son Christopher is a member of the unit. They get the mission to take out a band of terrorists that plan an attack on the American headquarters in Heidelberg.

Director: Thomas Bohn | Stars: Robert Atzorn, Jens Atzorn, Iris Berben, Oona-Devi Liebich

Votes: 73

32. Making the War Room (2012 Video)

56 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Stars: James Carville, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, R.J. Cutler

33. Bill Clinton: His Life (2004 Video)

111 min | Documentary, Biography

(From the DVD jacket:) " 'His Life' follows Bill Clinton through his college days as a war protester, his years of purported womanizing as governor of Arkansas, his possible connections to ... See full synopsis »

Stars: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Vince Foster, Don Tyson

Votes: 36

34. William J. Clinton Foundation Panel (2012 Video)

26 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Stars: Bill Clinton, Ronald Brownstein, James Carville, Vernon Jordan

35. Stanley Greenberg (2012 Video)

11 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Stars: Stanley Greenberg, Bill Clinton, James Carville, Chelsea Clinton

36. Animaniacs (1993–1998)
Episode: Testimonials/Babblin' Bijou/Potty Emergency/Sir Yaksalot (1993)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The Warners wreak havoc at the movie theatre in a black and white cartoon from the 1930s. Then, Wakko has a "Potty Emergency" as he races against time and nature to find a bathroom.

Directors: Barry Caldwell, Jeff DeGrandis, Rusty Mills | Stars: Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche

Votes: 173

37. The Dead Zone (2002–2007)
Episode: The Hunt (2003)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

'Government Remote Viewing Unit' tries Johnny Smith's special ability in the war against terror in a military operation.

Director: James Head | Stars: Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole de Boer, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams

Votes: 140

38. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: A Taste of Armageddon (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are all declared killed in action in a bizarre computer simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, David Opatoshu, Gene Lyons

Votes: 4,189

39. Centurions (1986)
Episode: Firecracker (1986)

TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family

Quisto and Montenegro are on a verge of war. Crystal interrupts Ace' dream involving her as she summons the Centurions. Max, Ace and Jake are on a diplomatic mission in Quisto while Rex and John find the culprit for the war.

Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg

Votes: 16

40. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008)
Episode: The Storm (2005)

TV-Y7 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Aang relives the events after finding out that he is the Avatar 100 years ago and tells them to Katara, while Iroh tells the story of Zuko's scar and banishment to the crew.

Director: Lauren MacMullan | Stars: Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack De Sena, Dante Basco

Votes: 6,080

41. Lupin the 3rd (1977–1980)
Episode: Mottomo kiken na ôgon beddo (1979)

TV-PG | Animation, Action, Adventure

Pestered by Fujiko, Lupin has to steal a golden bed that was originally made by Louis XIV for Josephine. He makes a plan with Jigen and Goemon, but the owner of the bed, Morgan, is a formidable opponent who has WWII military experience.

Director: Kyôsuke Mikuriya | Stars: Richard Cansino, Makio Inoue, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Eiko Masuyama

Votes: 25

42. Motherland: Fort Salem (2020–2022)
Episode: Citydrop (2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

The witches' training culminates at City Drop, their final training exercise. Devastating secrets come to light, splintering the unit and forcing Tally to question her blind trust. A ... See full summary »

Director: David Grossman | Stars: Taylor Hickson, Amalia Holm, Demetria McKinney, Jessica Sutton

Votes: 1,388

43. Watchmen (2008–2009)
Episode: Chapter III: The Judge of All the Earth (2008)

Not Rated | 26 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

On the day Laurie walks on Dr. Manhattan, the superhuman man is suddenly confronted with disturbing allegations that drive him to leave Earth.

Director: Jake Strider Hughes | Star: Tom Stechschulte

Votes: 138

44. Loki (2021–2023)
Episode: Ouroboros (2023)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Loki finds himself lost to time and torn, quite literally, between past, present and future.

Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Wunmi Mosaku

Votes: 15,788

45. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2020)
Episode: The Jedi Who Knew Too Much (2013)

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

When the suspect of the Temple bombing is murdered in her cell, Ahsoka suddenly finds herself framed and on the run from the Republic military.

Director: Danny Keller | Stars: Ashley Eckstein, Matt Lanter, Dee Bradley Baker, Stephen Stanton

Votes: 4,444

46. Star Wars: Rebels (2014–2018)
Episode: Imperial Supercommandos (2016)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After losing contact to the Protectors of Concord Dawn, Sabine, Ezra and Fenn Rau investigate. They quickly discover that Imperial Mandalorians have taken over the station.

Directors: Justin Ridge, Steward Lee | Stars: Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Tiya Sircar

Votes: 2,178

47. The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019)
Episode: For Want of a Nail (2019)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Smith and Helen's true loyalties are placed on trial by an old nemesis. The BCR struggles to maintain order across the JPS. Kido is forced to confront his atrocities. Bands of roving vigilantes threaten Childan and Yukiko.

Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Alexa Davalos, Joel de la Fuente, Jason O'Mara, Brennan Brown

Votes: 1,845