can be used on safes and vaults, this practice is uncommon. Media depictions Movies often depict a safe-cracker determining the combination of a safe lock using his fingers or a sensitive listening device to determine the combination of a rotary combination lock. Other films also depict an elaborate scheme of explosives and other devices to open safes. Some of the more famous works include: A Retrieved Reformation (1909) The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Rififi (1955) The Cracksman (1963) You Only Live Twice (1967) Who's Minding the Mint? (1967) Olsen Gang Olsen-banden Olsen-banden Junior Olsenbanden Olsenbanden Jr. Jönssonligan Lilla Jönssonligan Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - Auto-dialer The Burglars (1971) Cool Breeze (1972) Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) No Deposit, No Return (1976) Thief (1981) Vabank (1981) Blood Simple (1984) Short Circuit 2 (1988) Die Hard (1988) - Drilling, guessing electronic passwords Disorganized Crime (1989) Breaking In (1989) - Drilling, hammering (a cheap safe), nitroglycerin explosives, torch-cutting (with this method the contents were destroyed), social engineering Hudson Hawk (1991) Killing Zoe (1994) Heat (1995) - Drilling, physical sabotage of external security systems Safe Men (1998) The Newton Boys (1998) Blue Streak (1999) Sexy Beast (2000) - Tunnelling into a bank vault, and physical destruction of security devices by flooding Small Time Crooks (2000) Ocean's Eleven (2001) - Social engineering, physical sabotage of security systems The Score (2001) - Drilling, thermal lance, internal explosion. This method shown at the climax of the film was tested on an episode of MythBusters (see below). Panic Room (2002) - Drilling, brute force, physical destruction of electronic security systems The Italian Job (2003) Bad Santa (2003) Brainiac: Science Abuse (2003) - The safe was eventually cracked by a high-explosive round fired using a Challenger 2 Tank. The contents were destroyed. The Ladykillers (2004) Burn Notice (2007–2013) The Bank Job (2008) Payday: The Heist (2011) Dom Hemingway (2013) Payday 2 (2013-2016) "Battlefield Hardline" (2015) - Safe-cracking robot Army of Thieves (2021) Three safecracking methods seen in movies were also tested on the television show MythBusters, with some success. While the team was able to blow the door off of a safe by filling the safe with water and detonating an explosive inside it, the contents of the safe were destroyed and filling the safe with water required sealing it from the inside. The safe had also sprung many leaks. See also