How to watch A House of Dynamite in New Zealand
It’s getting harder to take political thriller seriously, isn’t it?
It is wild to think it’s been eight years since we had a feature film out of Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, but here we are. Detroit was 2017, and boy was the world a different place then. Which may explain why her new film deals with the end of the world. Sort of.
How to watch A House of Dynamite in New Zealand
A House of Dynamite is streaming exclusively in New Zealand on Netflix from October 24, 2025.
What is A House of Dynamite about?
How much plot can you fit into 18 minutes? That’s what we’re here to find out. Sure, A House of Dynamite clocks in at a tidy 112 minutes, but 18 minutes is the length of time between when an intercontinental ballistic missile is detected by a US military installation in Alaska, and when it’s explosive payload hits Chicago. In that time we see how the various figures in the upper echelons of power deal with the crisis.
The cast of A House of Dynamite
We’ve got a pretty massive ensemble cast here, with Idris Elba as the President of the US; Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker, a senior officer in the White House Situation Room; Gabriel Basso as Deputy National Security Advisor Jake Baerington; Jared Harris as Secretary of Defense Reid Baker; Tracy Letts as General Anthony Brady; Anthony Ramos as Major Daniel Gonzalez; Moses Ingram as FEMA official Cathy Rogers; Greta Lee as NSA analyst Ana Park; and Jason Clarke as Admiral Mark Miller.
A House of Dynamite trailer
Why we’re excited about A House of Dynamite
While the bloom is off the rose when it comes to depicting the US federal government as anything other than a clown car full of simpering swine, Bigelow has form for doing so—remember Zero Dark Thirty? This film has been generating some mighty fine buzz; it should prove to be a propulsive thriller.
