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Iron Man 3(2013)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 10,244 votes)

When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

Love Actually(2003)

R
| 2h 15min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 3,051 votes)

Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.

One Shot(2021)

NR
| 1h 36min | Action
3.4/5 (with 397 votes)

An elite squad of Navy SEALs, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same prisoner.

Vice(2018)

R
| 2h 12min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1,482 votes)

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

Vantage Point(2008)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.2/5 (with 902 votes)

The attempted assassination of the American president is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

Syriana(2005)

R
| 2h 8min | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 579 votes)

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

World Trade Center(2006)

2h 9min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 775 votes)

Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Team America: World Police(2004)

R
| 1h 38min | Adventure, Action, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 800 votes)

Team America World Police follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that dictator Kim Jong il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save it in time? It stars… Samuel L Jackson, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Helen Hunt, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Danny Glover, Ethan Hawke, Alec Baldwin… or does it?

Lions for Lambs(2007)

R
| 1h 32min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 326 votes)

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.

United 93(2006)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama, History, Crime, Thriller, Action
3.6/5 (with 615 votes)

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

Reign Over Me(2007)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 456 votes)

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.

Zeitgeist: Addendum(2008)

2h 3min | Documentary, History, War
3.6/5 (with 102 votes)

Zeitgeist: Addendum premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival. Director Peter Joseph stated: "The failure of our world to resolve the issues of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. It address the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long-term solution.".

Directed by Peter Joseph - With George Carlin, Jacque Fresco, Jiddu Krishnamurti, John Perkins, Ron Paul
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Zeitgeist(2007)

1h 58min | Documentary, History
3.5/5 (with 210 votes)

Zeitgeist: the Movie is a 2007 documentary film by Peter Joseph examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the Federal Reserve bank. It was officially released online on June 18, 2007 on www.ZeitgeistMovie.com.

Fahrenheit 9/11(2004)

2h 3min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 619 votes)

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Directed by Michael Moore - With Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Al Gore, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, ...

Flight 93(2006)

PG-13
| 1h 29min | Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 78 votes)

Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006. The film focused heavily on eight passengers, namely Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Donald Greene, Nicole Miller, and Honor Elizabeth Wainio. It features small appearances from many other passengers, namely Donald Peterson and his wife, Jean, and also from flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw.

Directed by Peter Markle - With Jeffrey Nordling, Brennan Elliott, Ty Olsson, Jacqueline Ann Steuart, Laura Mennell, Barry W. Levy, ...

11'09''01 September 11(2002)

2h 15min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 48 votes)

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

9/11(2002)

PG-13
| 2h 8min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 46 votes)

An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider's view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about a rookie NYC fireman and ended up filming the tragic event that changed our lives forever.

Directed by Jules Naudet - With Robert De Niro

New York(2009)

2h 33min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

New York is a contemporary story of friendship set against the larger than life backdrop of a city often described as the centre of the world. Omar has gone abroad for the first time in his life and soon enough he begins to see and love America through the eyes of his American friends - Sam and Maya. It is the story of these three friends discovering a new world together.

Directed by Kabir Khan - With Irrfan Khan, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Katrina Kaif, Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Major(2022)

2h 30min | Action, History, Drama
3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

This biopic follows the life of Indian Army officer Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, from his childhood to his heroic actions during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

With Adivi Sesh, Sobhita Dhulipala, Prakash Raj, Revathi, Saiee Manjrekar

Raid on Entebbe(1976)

3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu..

Land of Plenty(2004)

2h 3min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

God Bless the Broken Road(2018)

3.8/5 (with 26 votes)

The story of a young mother who loses her husband in Afghanistan and struggles to raise their young daughter in his absence.

Directed by Harold Cronk - With Lindsay Pulsipher, Andrew Walker, Kim Delaney, Robin Givens, Gary Grubbs, Arthur Cartwright, ...

Sorry, Haters(2005)

1h 23min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.

The Hamburg Cell(2004)

1h 46min | Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.

Directed by Antonia Bird

TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism(2006)

1h 53min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

Jones covers what he believes are terrorist attacks induced by governments throughout history, most particularly the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

Osombie(2012)

1h 32min | Horror, Action
2.1/5 (with 14 votes)

Following the 9/11 attacks, the war on terror against Afghanistan continues. With the Taliban insurgents hiding out in the mountains however, they become increasingly difficult for the US military to engage. The solution is to try and flush them out by adding low level chemicals to the water supply. Little do the USA know however that enemy scientists have adapted the chemicals to make their own formula, one that can bring the dead back to life.

Directed by John Lyde

Mumbo Jumbo(2005)

10min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In a misguided attempt to do something for the war on terror, self-styled suburban warriors Gool, Rube and Simmo are ready to carry out their first operation, but things don't go quite as they planned.

Folgeschäden(2004)

1h 28min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

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The Cats of Mirikitani(2006)

1h 14min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Documentary about red-bereted Jimmy Mirikitani, a feisty painter working and living on the street, near the World Trade Center, when 9/11 devastates the neighborhood. A nearby film editor, Linda Hattendorf, persuades elderly Jimmy to move in with her, while seeking a permanent home for him. The young woman delves into the California-born, Japan-raised artist's unique life which developed his resilient personality, and fuel his 2 main subjects, cats and internment camps. The editor films Jimmy's remarkable journey.

Directed by Linda Hattendorf - With Jimmy Mirikitani

Fabled Enemies(2008)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

7 years after 911 the supposed mastermind behind the attacks is still at large, and the nation is entrenched in multiple Wars in the Middle East. Is Bin Laden the Evil behind the attack or a mere front man in a larger picture, a Bogeyman? We are told we are fighting a War on Terror, and that the Terrorists hate us for our freedom. If that is the case, why do our leaders take more and more of those freedoms away every day?

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