Films about World War III

1991 film by James Cameron

1964 British satire film directed by Stanley Kubrick

2003 film directed by Jonathan Mostow

1967 film directed by Lewis Gilbert

Tenet (stylized in all caps, sometimes as TENƎꓕ) is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a former CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization, tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack from the future to the present.

2023 film directed by Christopher McQuarrie

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a 2025 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The ensemble cast includes Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett. In the film, Hunt and his IMF team continue their mission to prevent the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence, from destroying all of humanity.

2002 film directed by Kurt Wimmer

1988 film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

1986 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III. Martin Brest was originally the film's director, but was fired early into production.

2002 film by Phil Alden Robinson

1996 film directed by John Woo

1984 film directed by John Milius

2012 science-fiction comedy film by Timo Vuorensola

2022 film directed by Simon Kinberg

1983 film directed by Nicholas Meyer

Expend4bles (also known as The Expendables 4) is a 2023 American action film a sequel to The Expendables 3 (2014) and the fourth installment in The Expendables franchise. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Megan Fox, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Randy Couture and Andy Garcia. It was directed by Scott Waugh and written by Kurt Wimmer, Tad Daggerhart and Max D. Adams.

1966 film directed by Norman Jewison

2012 war film directed by Dan Bradley

2018 film directed by Julius Onah

2017 film by Michael Cuesta

1965 film by Elio Petri

1985 film by John Landis

1959 film by Stanley Kramer

2006 film directed by Richard Kelly

1984 television film directed by Mick Jackson

1986 film by Jimmy T. Murakami

1964 film directed by John Frankenheimer

2013 film directed by Kevin Macdonald

2011 film directed by Xavier Gens

1977 film by Jack Smight

1965 television film directed by Peter Watkins

1983 film by Lynne Littman

1998 film by Lance Mungia

1987 film by Lance Hool

1965 film by James B. Harris

2018 science fiction comedy film by Timo Vuorensola

1979 French film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre

1962 film by Joseph Losey

2000 television film directed by Russell Mulcahy

2004 animated feature film directed by Shinji Aramaki

1988 film by Steve De Jarnatt

1961 film by Shūe Matsubayashi

1952 American film by Alfred E. Green

1962 film by Ray Milland

1985 film by Albert Pyun

2017 Japanese animated film by Risako Yoshida

1961 film directed by Val Guest

1990 American television film directed by Jack Sholder

1990 film by Frank Harris

2005 film by Craig R. Baxley

1987 American television serial

1973 Tamil film directed by M. G. Ramachandran

2020 film directed by Brian Patrick Butler

1985 film by Paul Donovan

1952 American film by Stuart Gilmore

1987 film directed by Picha

1984 film directed by John Duigan

1998 film directed by Robert Stone