Image Credit: Eros Hoagland/Netflix A House of Dynamite hit Netflix on October 24, 2025, leaving viewers deeply unsettled by its ending. With an all-star cast telling the fictional story of an apocalyptic missile attack on the United States, the Kathryn Bigelow-directed movie unfolds over the course of 18 minutes as the military and the White House watch the impending strike on a screen. "Eighteen minutes to decide the fate of the world and yet limited information [with] which to do so," the director told Netflix Tudum.