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During the summer of 2009, while Burj Khalifa was still under construction, contestants from The Amazing Race 15 visited the 120th floor to collect a clue. The helipad of the building was later featured as the pitstop of the fourth leg of the race in the second season of the reality competition series The Amazing Race Australia.
A substantial part of the plot of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the fourth of the Mission: Impossible film series, takes place in and around the Burj Khalifa and involves Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt having to scale a large section of the exterior using high-tech adhesive gloves in order to access and hack the building's security systems. Filming included stuntwork on the building's exterior with some scenes shot in the IMAX format.
Some scenes of the 2012 Malayalam language movie, Diamond Necklace, directed by Lal Jose were shot in Burj Khalifa. It is the first Indian film featuring this building.
In the History Channel show Life After People episode "Home Wrecked Homes", Burj Khalifa is shown to have been stripped of most of its glass facade due to high-speed desert winds, before it collapses from corrosion of its base, 250 years after people.
In the video game Spec Ops: The Line, Burj Khalifa serves as the headquarters for Colonel John Konrad and the fictional 33rd Battalion of the United States Army.
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