The Lost Bus is a 2025 survival drama film starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, which premiered on Apple TV+ on October 3, 2025. The movie, directed by Paul Greengrass, tells the true story of a bus driver and a teacher who saved 22 children from a devastating California wildfire in 2018, drawing from the book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson.