"The world's nuclear powers are in a paranoid downward spiral. Every nation had a chance to take their missiles offline, but no one trusted anyone else to do that. Your State Department is warning you that diplomatic channels are breaking down. Everyone who still has control of their arsenals is considering a first strike, just like you are. The intelligence community knows that the Entity is learning as it goes. It's getting smarter, it's getting stronger. They know that we have only 72 hours before every other nuclear arsenal on Earth is under the Entity's control. Three days before it focuses the full force of its energy on the toughest, most secure defense system on the planet: ours, at which point, the Defense Department will have no choice but to insist that you open that case, enter the codes, and launch an all-out preemptive strike on the world's eight other nuclear arsenals before the Entity takes control of ours. Madam President, either you destroy the world or the Entity does. In any case, it is checkmate."

"I need you to trust me, one last time."

"César Évora as Gabriel"

"Navid Negahban as Murad"

"Enayat Delawary as Ahmed"

"Clifton Collins Jr. as Maj. Cavazos"

"Bailee Madison as Isabelle Cahill, Sam & Grace's older daughter and Tommy's niece"

"Carey Mulligan as Cassie Willis, Joe's wife"

"Arron Shiver as A. J."

"[last lines of the movie] I don't know who said "only the dead have seen the end of war". I have seen the end of war. The question is: can I live again?"

"[opening lines] October 7, 2007, four days till we deploy. Grace knows I would do anything to get back to her. Anything. Today, I wrote her a letter."

"Tobey Maguire as Capt. Samuel "Sam" Cahill"

"Jake Gyllenhaal as Thomas "Tommy" Cahill, Sam's younger brother"

"Sam Shepard as Henry "Hank" Cahill, Sam & Tommy's father"

"Mare Winningham as Elsie Cahill, Sam & Tommy's stepmother"

"Taylor Geare as Margaret "Maggie" Cahill, Sam & Grace's younger daughter and Tommy's niece"

"Patrick Flueger as Pvt. Joseph "Joe" Willis"

"Omid Abtahi as Yusuf"

"Ethan Suplee as Sweeney"

"Yousef Azami as Taliban Leader"

"Jenny Wade as Tina"

"Ray Prewitt as Owen"

"Natalie Portman as Grace Cahill, Sam's wife"

"Benjamin Walker - Peter Jennings"

"Daniel Adeosun - Gary Slaughter"

"Rony Herman - David Berger"

"Georgina Rich - Gladys Deist"

"Zinedine Soualem - Jacques Lesgards"

"Corey Johnson - Hank Hanson"

"Ben Chaplin - Marvin Bader"

"John Magaro - Geoffrey Mason"

"Leonie Benesch - Marianne Gebhardt"

"Marcus Rutherford - Carter Jeffrey"

"Black September, they know the whole world is watching. If - I'm saying if - they kill a hostage on live television, whose story is it? Is it ours, or is it theirs?"

"Peter Sarsgaard - Roone Arledge"

"Okay, look, I know this isn't a responsibility that everyone wants. But does it make more sense to have a talking head from News take over from halfway across the fucking world? Our job is to tell the stories of these individuals, whose lives are at stake, 100 yards away. And our job is really straightforward. We put the camera in the right place, and we follow the story as it unfolds in real time. News can tell us what it all meant after it's over. And I'm sure they're gonna try. But this is our story. And we're keeping it."

"Nick Holder - Dennis"

"Ian Porter - Jerry"

"Neal Huff - Ernie"

"Colin Stinton - Mr. Jones"

"Mark Pellegrino - Cal Riley"

"Hichame Ouraqa - Abu Rajal (as Hicham Ouraqa)"

"Shea Whigham - Gary Ruzak"

"Naomi Scott as Skye Riley"

"Rosemarie DeWitt as Elizabeth Riley"

"Leïla Bekhti - Nadia Skiles"

"Lukas Gage as Lewis"

"Miles Gutierrez-Riley as Joshua"

"Kate Fleetwood - Alice Riley"