Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite arrives on Netflix Oct 24, 2025

Netflix and Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow will return to theaters and the streaming platform this October with A House of Dynamite, a high-stakes political thriller that follows U.S. officials scrambling to identify and respond to a single, unattributed missile strike. The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September and earned a Golden Lion nomination, opens in select U.K. theaters on October 3, in select U.S. theaters on October 10, and will stream globally on Netflix on October 24, 2025, according to studio schedules and press materials.

A House of Dynamite centers on the race to determine responsibility and formulate a response after a lone missile is launched at the United States, an official logline says. Some coverage specifies the strike is aimed at Chicago, reflecting early reporting and the film's trailer. The screenplay was written by Noah Oppenheim, whose credits include Jackie and the miniseries Zero Day, and the film is produced by Greg Shapiro, Bigelow and Oppenheim, with Jeremy Hindle and Sumaiya Kaveh as coproducers and Brian Bell and Sarah Bremner listed as executive producers.

The ensemble cast is led by Rebecca Ferguson and Idris...