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The Civil War official trailer garnered 25 million views in just 11 months since its release on December 13, 2023. Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman star in Alex Garland's futuristic action drama Civil War.
During a civil war raging across the United States between a tyrannical federal government and secessionist organizations.
The plot centers on a group of war journalists, heading from New York City to Washington, D.C., to interview the president before the rebels invade the capital.
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In the movie, Civil War, the backdrop is in Washington, D.C., where, war photographer Lee Smith and journalist Joel accompany their mentor Sammy to conduct the interview. As they go, they come upon Jessie Cullen, an aspiring photojournalist, who joins them. The trio eventually makes it to the frontlines in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they encounter carnage, including the execution of detainees and the gruesome deaths of their comrades, before joining the secessionist forces.
Jessie develops her photographic abilities when the White House is attacked, she documents the mayhem and devastation. Towards the end of the movie, some deaths might make one teary-eyed. For those who have liked watching the movie, Civil War, here is a list of 7 movies.
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Apocalypse Now, Children of Men, and 5 other movies to watch if you like Civil War
1) Children of Men
Alfonso Cuarón is the director and co-writer of the 2006 dystopian action thriller Children of Men similar to the movie, Civil War. The Children of Men, a 1992 book by P. D. James, served as the inspiration for the script.
Set in 2027, 18 years of infertility have driven humanity to the verge of collapse due to war and a worldwide depression. Refugees are detained, deported, or put to death in the suddenly authoritarian United Kingdom.
The militant Fishes, led by his estranged wife Julian, abduct bureaucrat Theo Faron. She requests that he obtain passage documents for Kee, the only known pregnant refugee still alive. Theo finds out that the Fishes intend to exploit Kee's child as a political tool after they kill Julian.
To escape to the Human Project, Theo, Kee, and former midwife Miriam go to Theo's friend Jasper. However, following Jasper's murder, they travel to the Bexhill refugee camp, where Kee gives birth to a daughter.
It ends with tears and deaths, just like in the movie Civil War; no war ever has a happy ending.
Where to watch: Prime Video, Apple TV+
2) Come and See
The 1985 Soviet anti-war film Come and See was directed by Elem Klimov and starred Olga Mironova and Aleksei Kravchenko. After eight years of censoring by the Soviet government, Klimov was finally permitted to make the full film.
The storyline of the movie centers on the Nazi German conquest of Belarus and the events as seen by Flyora, a young adolescent who joins the Belarusian partisans. It then shows the horrors and misery that the Nazis inflicted on the people. Using a very realistic manner with some bizarre elements, the film blends profound philosophical ideas with themes of politics, psychology, poetry, and the end of the world.
Civil War showcases a near-end-of-the-world scenario, similar to the theme in Come and See
Where to watch: Prime Video, Apple TV+
3) Threads
The British apocalyptic war drama television series Threads is about the dramatization of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, notably on the city of Sheffield in Northern England. As a conflict between the US and the USSR breaks out, the story revolves around two families.
The movie shows the medical, economic, social, and environmental effects of nuclear war when the Warsaw Pact and NATO started their nuclear exchange. While an international crisis develops as the Soviet Union invades Iran in reaction to a coup supported by the United States, Ruth Beckett and Jimmy Kemp in Sheffield prepare to get married following Ruth's unintended pregnancy.
Panic breaks out in the UK as tensions turn into a nuclear exchange. With rampant looting and protests, society starts to fall apart as the government enacts civil defense measures. The Soviet Union launches a nuclear attack early in the war, destroying Britain and murdering millions of people.
Hospitals are overcrowded and resources are limited as a result of the aftermath, which causes societal collapse. Ruth and the other survivors must contend with a harsh new world that is ruled by the military, food shortages, and a nuclear winter.
In both the movies Civil War and Threads, the devastating effects of conflict lead to widespread destruction.
Where to watch: Prime Video, Apple TV+
4) The Thin Red Line
Based on James Jones' 1962 novel, Terrence Malick wrote and directed the war movie The Thin Red Line in 1998. After the 1964 version, this is the second cinematic adaptation of the book. After a 20-year break, Malick made his filmmaking comeback with the release of this movie.
In 1942, U.S. Army Private Witt quit his squad to live among Melanesian locals, only to be apprehended and punished. He serves with C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment during the Guadalcanal battle, fighting to retake Hill 210 from the Japanese.
Following a botched assault and significant casualties, the company uses a flanking maneuver to finally take the hill. The movie ends with a big sacrifice that someone eventually has to pay, just like in Civil War, where they risk their lives to fulfill their duty.
Where to watch: Prime Video, Apple TV+
5) Full Metal Jacket
Stanley Kubrick co-wrote, directed, and produced the 1987 war movie Full Metal Jacket, based on Gustav Hasford's 1979 book The Short-Timers. The movie is about a platoon of U.S. Marines during their boot camp training at Parris Island, South Carolina. The full metal jacket bullet that military personnel employ is referenced in the movie's title.
Two recruits, J.T. Davis ("Joker") and Leonard Lawrence ("Pyle"), struggle under the harsh training of their drill instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. Hartman, who is in charge of Joker's unit, gives him the task of helping Pyle improve.
When it is found that Pyle has a jelly doughnut in his footlocker, the unit is penalized for his offenses. Pyle begins to show signs of a mental collapse after being recruited as a model. The night before graduation, Pyle murders someone. To find out who, watch the movie Full Metal Jacket.
Just as Pyle showed signs of mental collapse in Full Metal Jacket, in Civil War too, there is rising stress and dilemmas involving moral decisions to be made.
Where to watch: Prime Video, Apple TV+
6) New Order
New Order is a 2020 Mexican-French thriller movie. It takes place in a dystopian near future Mexico. Written, directed, produced, and edited by Michel Franco, on September 10, 2020, the movie made its global premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it took home the Grand Jury Prize.
About the movie: In 2020, the gap between social classes in Mexico is increasingly marked. A high-society wedding is interrupted by a group of armed and violent rioters who are part of an even larger uprising of the underprivileged, and take the participants as hostages.
The Mexican Army exploits the disorder caused by the riots to establish a military dictatorship in the country. It involves the kidnappings of young adults, extortion, assaults, torture of the kidnapped while being held, and execution upon receiving no ransom, some of it, or all of it, by the Mexican military.
A total breakdown of law and order, followed by chaos, is a similarity in the movies Civil War and New Order.
Where to watch: Prime Video
7) Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now, an epic war film from 1979, was produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, published in 1899, served as a partial inspiration.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard is ordered to remove Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, a renegade Special Forces officer in charge of a mission in Cambodia, from command in 1969 during the Vietnam War. To cross the Nùng River and arrive at Kurtz's isolated outpost, Willard boards a U.S. Navy river patrol boat.
As the plot unfolds, Willard is taken prisoner, tortured, and imprisoned. Willard uses a blade to murder an important character in the movie after seeing a brutal ceremony.
In the movies, Civil War and Apocalypse Now, the psychological toll of war is a key similarity.
Where to watch: Prime Video
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