The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker (1997) is Mimi Leder's action thriller, ready to watch online on iFILM. When a train hauling nuclear warheads is blown up in the mountains of southern Russia, investigators quickly realize the crash was staged to hide a theft.

Two people chase the missing weapons. Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) runs the nuclear desk at the White House; Special Forces officer Lt. Colonel Tom Devoe (George Clooney) knows the black market from the ground up. The trail leads to a grieving man carrying a backpack bomb toward the heart of New York, driven by a loss that makes him impossible to reason with. Vienna car chases, firefights in the Balkans, a homemade device ticking down in real time: the pacing rarely lets up.

This was the very first release from DreamWorks, built as a big studio spectacle. Kidman plays a scientist with authority rather than a sidekick, and her partnership with Clooney runs on cool professionalism instead of romance. A solid slice of 1990s espionage action for anyone who loves a countdown. Stream The Peacemaker (1997) online on iFILM.