The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker is a 1997 thriller and action movie starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. It is notable as being the first film released by DreamWorks. While the story takes place all over the world, it was shot primarily in Macedonia, with some sequences in New York and Philadelphia, and, to a greater extent, in Bratislava. The movie begins in an Eastern Orthodox church in Pale, Bosnia, when an unidentified man (later revealed to be a Bosnia... more

The Peacemaker is a 1997 thriller and action movie starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. It is notable as being the first film released by DreamWorks. While the story takes place all over the world, it was shot primarily in Macedonia, with some sequences in New York and Philadelphia, and, to a greater extent, in Bratislava. The movie begins in an Eastern Orthodox church in Pale, Bosnia, when an unidentified man (later revealed to be a Bosnian diplomat to the UN) is murdered in an alley after receiving a page to meet someone outside. The scene then immediately shifts to a missile base in Chelyabinsk, Russia, where SS-18 ICBM's are being decommissioned. Ten nuclear warheads are loaded onto a train and sent to a separate site for dismantling. However, the base commander has other plans. Along with a rogue tactical unit, he kills all the soldiers onboard the train and steals the warheads. He also sets off the timer on one remaining warhead and switches tracks to send the train on a... less