Highest-Rated Movies about 'National Security', Sort by Popularity

The Merry Widow (1934), The Terminal (2004), Sneakers (1992), War Comes to America (1945), We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013), Manhunt (2013), The Age of Consequences (2016), The Riddle of the Sands (1979) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best National Security movies.

#2. The Terminal (2004)

Storyline: Victor Navorski reaches JFK airport from a politically unstable country. Due to collapse of his government, his papers are no longer valid in the airport, and hence he is forced to stay in the airport until the war cools down. He makes the airport his home and develops a friendship with the people who work there until he can leave.

Plot Keywords: tourist, flight attendant, passenger, foreigner, love interest, airy, lighthearted ...

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#3. Sneakers (1992)

Storyline: Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialize in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue. After they recover the box, they discover that it has the capability to decode all existing encryption systems around the world, and that the agents who hired them didn't work for the government after all.

Plot Keywords: hacker, blind person, nsa agent, childhood friend, ex-girlfriend, mathematician, amusing ...

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#4. War Comes to America (1945)

Storyline: In this final installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda series, the subject focuses on the United States of America. We learn of its good qualities and the things worth fighting for. With that established, we learn of the history of the United States' population shifting opinion towards siding with the Allies against the Axis until the attack on Pearl Harbour which brought America into full scale involvement in the war.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>

Plot Keywords: narrator, winston churchill, josef goebbels, adolf hitler, franklin delano roosevelt, patriotic, rousing ...

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#7. The Age of Consequences (2016)

Storyline: The 'Hurt Locker' meets 'An Inconvenient Truth', THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES is the Emmy® nominated investigation on how climate change impacts increased resource scarcity, migration and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability. Through unflinching case-study analysis, distinguished admirals, generals and military veterans take us beyond the headlines of the conflict in Syria, the social unrest of the Arab Spring, the rise of radicalized groups like ISIS, border walls and the European refugee crisis - laying bare how climate change interacts with other socio-political factors to exacerbate societal tensions and spark conflict.—PFP

Plot Keywords: admiral, general, veteran, government official, terrorist, refugee, brooding ...

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#8. The Riddle of the Sands (1979)

Storyline: In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible scheme, but must outwit not only the cream of the German Navy, but the feared Kaiser Wilhelm himself.—Jonathon Dabell <J.D.@pixie.ntu.ac.uk>

Plot Keywords: man, friend, patriotic, engaging, suspenseful, rousing, gutsy ...

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#9. The Mouse on the Moon (1963)

Storyline: The sequel to The Mouse That Roared (1959), the tiny country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in new plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid, as well, to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the Grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try to beat them to the moon.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: prime minister, scientist, russian, american, duchess, astronaut, playful ...

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#10. Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)

Storyline: A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?—Guy Bellinger

Plot Keywords: fbi agent, scotland yard agent, scientist, spy, cool, engaging, tense ...

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#11. Johnny English (2003)

Storyline: When a funeral of a British spy is attacked, all of the remaining spies are killed. Only one spy is left and is now Britain's last hope. Johnny English and his sidekick, Bough have been assigned the case of investigating the theft of the British Crown Jewels. The prime suspect is a mysterious French entrepreneur, known as Pascal Sauvage. English and Bough soon find out the horrifying truth behind the theft and Sauvage, but it's not going to be an easy job to bring him to justice.

Plot Keywords: secret agent, sidekick, spy, businessman, englishman, queen, hilarious ...

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#13. The Merry Widow (1952)

Storyline: Working for O.S.I., the Office of Scientific Investigation, A-Man agent Jeffrey Stewart and his partner Dan Forbes are sent to a local hardware store where they find a strong magnetic field has magnetized every metal item in the store. Investigating further, they eventually trace the source of the magnetism to an airborn flight carrying scientist Howard Denker, now dying of radiation poisoning, who has carted on board with him a new radioactive element which he has bombarded with alpha particles for 200 hours. The element, dubbed 'serranium' grows geometrically by creating matter out of energy which it absorbs from metallic objects surrounding it. Stewart calculates that if the substance is not destroyed soon that within 24 hours or so it will have grown large enough to throw Earth out of its orbit.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: widow, count, king, ambassador, baron, winsome, amusing ...

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#14. Survivor (2015)

Storyline: A State Department employee newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the U.S. That puts her right in the line of fire and she is targeted for death and framed for crimes. Discredited, she is forced to go on the run while she tries to clear her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve in Times Square.

Plot Keywords: assassin, terrorist, thrilling, suspenseful, gripping, spirited, rousing ...

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#15. The Atticus Institute (2015)

Storyline: In the fall of 1976, a small psychology lab in Pennsylvania became the unwitting home to the only government-confirmed case of possession. The U.S. military assumed control of the lab under orders of national security and, soon after, implemented measures aimed at weaponizing the entity. The details of the inexplicable events that occurred are being made public after remaining classified for nearly forty years.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: psychologist, military official, government official, demon, gripping, bleak, tense ...

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