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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its fast, profane political farce turns the machinery behind a coming war into escalating bureaucratic absurdity, matching War Machine’s contempt for official optimism and insulated decision-makers.
02
Why this pick
A sharply comic institutional satire about a weapons project swallowed by meetings, careerism, and self-preservation; it shares War Machine’s deadpan view of military bureaucracy defeating common sense.
03
Why this pick
Like War Machine, it finds bleak comedy in powerful men performing certainty while scrambling beneath the surface, with brisk, vicious satire rather than heroic political drama.
04
Why this pick
Its off-kilter Iraq War comedy shares War Machine’s sense that military institutions can be both imposing and ridiculous, blending enlisted camaraderie with surreal official folly.
05
Why this pick
This darkly comic military ensemble replaces battlefield heroics with cynical schemes, petty power games, and corrosive morale—an irreverent institutional perspective close to War Machine’s.
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01 / THE STORY
In the summer of 2009, Four-star rank Glen McMahon, having won renown for his effective leadership in Iraq War, is sent to Afghanistan to prepare an assessment so that the government can end the ongoing War in Afghanistan (2001–present). He is given wide latitude to write it, on the sole condition that he not request more troops. McMahon and his staff, particularly his right hand man Major General Greg Pulver, are united in their belief that the war can be won, and decide to recommend that Barack Obama authorize a surge of 40,000 additional troops to secure Helmand province in order to stabilize the country. However, the United States Secretary of State informs McMahon that, because he requested more troops, and such a surge is incompatible with elections, McMahon's report will not be reviewed until after Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Greg Pulver
Willy Dunne
Simon Ball
Badi Basim
Andy Moon
Cpl. Billy Cole
Jeannie McMahon
Captain Dick North
