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White House Down is a 2013 American political action thriller film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by James Vanderbilt. In the film, a divorced US Capitol Police officer attempts to rescue both his daughter and the President of the United States when a destructive terrorist assault occurs in the White House .
An intrusion of the White House occurred on September 19, 2014, when Omar J. Gonzalez, an Iraq War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, jumped over the White House's fence and entered the building's front door, overpowered a security officer, was stopped by another who was off-duty, then later by multiple security officers, and arrested.
Olympus Has Fallen was one of two films released in 2013 that depicted a terrorist attack against the White House; the other was White House Down, which was released three months later. A sequel, titled London Has Fallen, was released on March 4, 2016, with the principal cast members reprising their roles.
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The home invasion subgenre goes as far back as D. W. Griffith's 1909 film The Lonely Villa. [ 3 ] This list only covers films containing actual or attempted home invasions, and does not include movies based around assaults on other places such as Assault on Precinct 13 , which dealt with a police station being invaded, or intrusion under false ...
Netflix has teased a new White House murder mystery from Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes. The series stars Uzo Aduba, known from Orange Is the New Black, as Detective Cordelia Cupp, who ...
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Note that the White House maintained a broadly open door policy until the 1880s. August 24, 1814 – During the War of 1812, the British Army raided and set fire to the White House, along with the Capitol and many other Washington, D.C. structures. The reconstruction took until 1817.