Topic: Terrorism

Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Terrorism. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.


In the Name of the Father

1993 · Movie · 135 min. · Ireland

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Emma Thompson · Pete Postlethwaite · John Lynch

Plot Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, 'Proved Innocent', Jim Sheridan's 'In the Name of the Father' tells the story of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the bombing of a...

8.2

76K votes

8.2

76K votes

11M: El principio del fin (TV Miniseries)

2022 · Documentary · 60 min. · Spain

Direction Terra Ignota

Cast Mariano Rajoy · José María Aznar · José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero · Arnaldo Otegi

Plot On 11 March 2004, 3 days before Spain's general elections, a series of bombings against 4 trains in Madrid killed 193 people and injured around 2,000. This documentary explains the...

8.0

291 votes

8.0

291 votes

The Battle of Algiers

1966 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Jean Martin · Yacef Saadi · Brahim Haggiag · Fusia El Kader

Plot A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The...

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8.0

6K votes

8.0

6K votes

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

2023 · Documentary · 318 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Bluemel

Plot 5 episodes. Twenty-five years after a peace agreement was reached, this documentary series shares intimate and unpublished testimonies from all sides of the conflict. In 1921, after centuries of disputed...

7.9

156 votes

7.9

156 votes

Patria (TV Miniseries)

2020 · Series · 55 min. · Spain

Direction Aitor Gabilondo · Félix Viscarret · Óscar Pedraza

Cast Elena Irureta · Ane Gabaraín · Loreto Mauleón · Susana Abaitua

Plot TV Miniseries (2019). 8 Episodes. “Patria” studies the impact of the Basque conflict on ordinary people on either side of the divide, such as the widow of a man shot...

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7.9

18K votes

7.9

18K votes

Say Nothing

2024 · Series · 42 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Zetumer · Anthony Byrne · Michael Lennox · Mary Nighy

Cast Lola Petticrew · Hazel Doupe · Anthony Boyle · Josh Finan

Plot Miniseries. 9 episodes. Adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's acclaimed best-seller that traces the lives of multiple IRA members over four decades in Northern Ireland. The story focused on the Price...

7.7

510 votes

7.7

510 votes

9/11: One Day in America (TV Series)

2021 · Documentary · 76 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Bogado

Plot In official collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, this documentary series take viewers through harrowing moments of the historic morning of September 11, 2001.

7.7

203 votes

7.7

203 votes

Zubiak (Puentes)

2019 · Documentary · 90 min. · Spain

Direction Jon Sistiaga · Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas

Plot The story of one of ETA’s victims, Juan Mari Jauregi, told by the two most important people in his life, his widow and the person who took that life from...

7.6

373 votes

7.6

373 votes

Sherlock: The Empty Hearse (TV)

2014 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jeremy Lovering

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Martin Freeman · Louise Brealey · Amanda Abbington

Plot Two years after the devastating effects of The Reichenbach Fall, Dr John Watson has got on with his life. New horizons, romance and a comforting domestic future beckon. But, with...

7.6

9K votes

7.6

9K votes

November 13: Attack on Paris (TV Miniseries)

2018 · Documentary · 150 min. · France

Direction Gédéon Naudet · Jules Naudet

Plot Documentary chronicling the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015.

7.6

746 votes

7.6

746 votes

Homeland (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Howard Gordon · Alex Gansa · Gideon Raff · Lesli Linka Glatter

Cast Claire Danes · Damian Lewis · Mandy Patinkin · Rupert Friend

Plot TV Series (2011-2020). 8 Seasons. 96 Episodes. Centers on Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), who returns home eight years after going missing in Iraq, and Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes),...

7.6

42K votes

7.6

42K votes

ETA, el final del silencio (TV Series)

2019 · Documentary · 60 min. · Spain

7.6

836 votes

7.6

836 votes

When the Dust Settles (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 58 min. · Denmark

Direction Milad Alami · Iram Haq · Jeanette Nordahl

Cast Jakob Ulrik Lohmann · Karen-Lise Mynster · Peter Christoffersen · Arian Kashef

Plot When the Dust Settles is a multi-plot drama that portrays eight very different characters during the days before and after a terrorist attack shocks Copenhagen. The characters who start off...

7.5

701 votes

7.5

701 votes

Sabaya

2021 · Documentary · 90 min. · Sweden

Direction Hogir Hirori

Plot In August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Daesh) attacked the ancestral homeland of the Yazidis, one of the oldest ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq. Among many...

7.5

31 votes

7.5

31 votes

Caliphate (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 45 min. · Sweden

Direction Wilhelm Behrman · Niklas Rockström · Goran Kapetanovic

Cast Gizem Erdogan · Amed Bozan · Aliette Opheim · Albin Grenholm

Plot TV Series (2020). 8 Episodes. Agent Fatima gets a tip that a terrorist act is planned in Sweden. At the same time, the teenager Sulle has opened her eyes to...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes

El baile rojo: Memoria de los silenciados

2003 · Documentary · 56 min. · Colombia

Direction Yezid Campos

Plot The Red Dance - a documentary about a political party in Colombia called teh Patriotic Union. About 4000 of its members where killed in a genocide managed by politicians, paramilitaries...

7.4

31 votes

7.4

31 votes

Manhunt: Unabomber (TV Miniseries)

2017 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Sodroski · Jim Clemente · Tony Gittelson · Greg Yaitanes

Cast Sam Worthington · Paul Bettany · Chris Noth · Jeremy Bobb

Plot "Manhunt: Unabomber" tells the dramatic and gripping true story of the FBI's hunt for the Unabomber, the deadliest serial bomber in history. The story focuses on FBI Agent and Criminal...

7.4

10K votes

7.4

10K votes

Bloody Sunday

2002 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Greengrass

Cast James Nesbitt · Allan Gildea · Gerard Crossan · Mary Moulds

Plot In documentary style, Paul Greengrass' BLOODY SUNDAY, which chronicles the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Ireland, is filmed with gritty gray realness. Surrounding a peaceful protest march staged...

7.4

10K votes

7.4

10K votes

See You in Another Life

2024 · Series · 40 min. · Spain

Direction Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo · Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo · Borja Soler

Cast Roberto Gutierrez · Pol López · Quim Àvila Conde · Mourad Ouani

Plot TV Miniseries (2024). 6 Episodes. On March 11, 2004, several points of the Madrid train network were shaken by terrorist attacks, causing the death of more than 190 people. This...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes