Netflix Says Goodbye to One of the Best War Movies of the Century

Netflix Says Goodbye to One of the Best War Movies of the Century Image via Columbia Pictures By  Safwan Azeem Published 41 minutes ago

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Netflix is closing out 2025 with a brutal library trim, and one of the biggest losses for serious movie fans is Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s Zero Dark Thirty. The Oscar-era manhunt thriller is currently listed to leave Netflix US on January 1, 2026, part of a New Year’s Day purge that includes more than 150 movie removals. The departures are dominated by Sonyand Warner Bros. licensed titles, which is somewhat ironic considering Netflix's pending deal to purchase WB. If you have not revisited the tense, procedural hunt for Osama bin Laden, this is the most explicit warning you will get.

Zero Dark Thirty is not a war movie in the comfort watch sense. It is a 157-minute pressure cooker about intelligence work, obsession, moral compromise, and how victories are paid for in private. It builds to the Abbottabad raid itself and was nominated for Best Picture and won the Academy Award for Sound Editing, with Jessica Chastain anchoring the film as a driven CIA analyst. It is also controversial for its depiction of interrogation, which is why it continues to spark debate years later. That friction, arguably, is part of the film’s staying power because it rejects a tidier catharsis.

What Else on Netflix Won’t See the Light of 2026?

This exit lands inside an unusually stacked removal wave. On January 1 alone, Netflix is set to lose crowd favorites and awards bait across genres, including Mad Max: Fury Road, Tenet, Taxi Driver, The Martian, Captain Phillips, Baby Driver, Bridesmaids, Paddington 2, and Training Day. TV departures are not light either: Lost is slated to disappear the same day, and Mr. Robot is currently scheduled to leave a few days later. In other words, if your queue has any long-time rewatches or long-suggested watches, treat the first week of January like a deadline.

Zero Dark Thirty is available to watch on Netflix till December 2025. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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Like R History Thriller Drama Release Date December 19, 2012 Runtime 157 Minutes Director Kathryn Bigelow Writers Mark Boal

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