The Second Civil War (1997 FULL MOVIE) Beau Bridges, Phil Hartman

[@davidkanengieter]

I remember watching this when it first aired. I had forgotten most of it. Insane how relevant it still is.

[@sleepydragonzarinthal3533]

39 years old, never heard of this movie. Friend just sent it to me, watching it now

[@kodeska8784]

Damn bro this movie AGED WAY TOO WELL

[@ayankonthefooty]

This is a film that I've used in my "contemporary history through film". Typically, I use it at the end of the semester, but with current events, I'm moving it ahead. So damned close to the "real world".

[@yo07]

“News Net” “News Nation”! The world is just a stage! Peace out man! ✌🏽☮️🕊️✌️✌🏻✌🏼✌🏽✌🏾✌🏿

[@VandalAudi]

This and Idiocracy

[@erikswanson5753]

I'm sure at the time it was made it was considered pure fantasy.

[@benverboonen1108]

​​@ayankonthefooty you must be a terrible teacher then

[@MiraaksWife]

Who all is here in 2024 seeing that the world is kinda getting similar to this

[@MercenaryX21]

I remember seeing this on TV at one point

[@MiraaksWife]

Predictive programming

[@ryanreyes4622]

I am because its pretty much obvious although this Biden esque fool is somehwat more able than the real biden

[@erikswanson5753]

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

[@thespiritofhoxhawell4413]

You're losers

[@iankanderson14]

This is crazy watching In 2024

[@Thunderbird616]

So I just found out about this movie (here because of the 2024 Civil War movie). It's funny to think this topic was a subject even back in the day

[@utahraptor4729874]

Even more so because of the militia movement and Waco.

[@Thunderbird616]

@utahraptor4729874 Ruby riger and OKC bombing along with LA riots left or right, this subject has been there it's just taken off because of larpers or fear mongers imo

[@peacelovejoyandhappiness]

Was this movie really good?

[@badredfinn2982]

In my head canon, Civil War (2024) is the sequel to this film ...

[@peacelovejoyandhappiness]

@@badredfinn2982 the movie was just ok. Civil War 2024 in my opinion, is a 3.5 out of 5.0 star movie.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

This is not just a movie, this is a prophecy.

[@Solongsocialmedia]

I played this as the last time i ever seen james earl jones. R.I.P Mr.Vader.

[@Methyll]

The Second Civil War 1997 movie was a better movie than Civil War 2024 because this one actually made a effort to flush out the setting.

[@LibertyPrime1982]

True

[@wadde_fakman]

This is literally happening in Texas right now.

[@otarimuradishvili5540]

Yup prediction proving true

[@MiraaksWife]

Yep

[@whatareyoulookingat908]

UPDATE.... Sarah Huckabee-Sanders just sent the Arkansas guard now to Texas.

[@MiraaksWife]

@@whatareyoulookingat908 looks like these epicsten island guiltiest people are about to face the karma for their actions against the people lol

[@wadde_fakman]

@@MiraaksWife Things are heating up, that's for sure. Consider this, Dems need about ~2% in polls to win the electoral college. Right now Trump is up by 2 in the aggregate, and rising. Biden is trying to imprison his opponent so he won't lose the election. If he's successful, God help America.

[@davidanderson1889]

The irony here is so thick you can cut it with a knife. When this movie was made, Clinton was in office and they wanted to point out the lunacy of uncontrolled immigration. 25 years later, the same people who made this satirical film and the actors in it, take an active part in the same lunacy they tried to point out here 😂

[@mikegleed5842]

💯👍

[@FrankDad]

Spoilers: I love the twist ending. They said the governor wanted to have a line of succession, not secession. A miscommunication with a Rasputin figure caused the tragedy. Also, the war was partly caused my the MSM (aka NN) chasing a story. It is really a cautionary tale and a tragedy. Also, on another note, I love to see James Earl Jones in a non sci-fi role. Such a great actor.

[@dominicperez3777]

For a satire I'm shocked by how well this aged compared to the problems America is facing right now. Bro. What are the freaking chances? That is wild.

[@pgoings]

Watching this on 8 November 2024 is... very interesting!

[@mikegleed5842]

Watching this first time ever as a 38yr old Man today. 17th November 2024. How have I never heard of this before?

[@lisamarines5971]

RIP Phil Hartman 1948-1998

[@avatarmikephantom153]

The only sad part of this movie is watching his scenes, knowing he’s dead literally months after it aired. Man I miss him. He was so damn funny.

[@rileykoman7654]

I love him in the Simpsons

[@KH-jx1lo]

& RIP James Earl Jones

[@rileykoman7654]

@@KH-jx1lo I just found out today! James Earl Jones has a great distinctive voice. He was also in By Dawn’s early light 1990.

[@mikegleed5842]

R.I.P Troy Maclure

[@Memememe-is1yn]

"You think a fascist is someone that disagrees with you on any little thing." - Dennis Leary, 1997

[@xxxm981]

Well this is pretty wild to watch these days.

[@utahraptor4729874]

If this movie becomes reality it’s just proof of the Matrix at this point.

[@leonmusk4852]

Hows that?

[@carsonlantz6293]

"If this well documented geopolitical phenomenon occurs that the movie was theorizing about, it's proof of the matrix"

[@AlfredShitcocks]

😂😂😂😂😂you sound dumb af

[@chadwells7562]

@@carsonlantz6293🤣 Yeah exactly. This scenario has played out so many times in different places.

[@Dashslapp]

Hell of a cast. Settling down to watch now. Thanks for posting.

[@James-wv3hx]

I played a role as a Soldier in this movie.

[@JinKee]

Mom says we have Civil War at home

[@FullPlaythroughs]

🤣🤣

[@zz3167]

​@@FullPlaythroughs Ayo why are you here?!

[@jaegerbomb269]

This movie is a terrifying looking glass at the current year. It's coming true but even more stupid than the creators of this film could have imagined. We're also looking at Great Depression 2.0 and World War 3 occurring at the same time.

[@LibertyPrime1982]

Oh well at least we don't have any mean tweets 😂

[@benverboonen1108]

​@@LibertyPrime1982 man you guys are insufferable

[@jebbroham1776]

"You're a fascist because you don't think EXACTLY like I do". Wow, does that sound familiar or what about today's liberals? This movie predicted the future better than even Idiocracy did!

[@GrumblingGrognard]

No, you are a fascist because of who you support and what they do.

[@severussnape222]

Right. Just like todays right wing calls everyone and their mother a communist..

[@bcstudios519]

I can't believe erica ran off with antonio smh. It was the greatest tragedy that day.

[@Rickrickrickg]

"Take the irish off of birth control"😂😂😂😂

[@aaronrodden8121]

Fun fact, they wanted to use "black" instead of Irish but feared backlash!

[@itsnodawayitustabe5654]

Art imitates life, life imitates....

[@Critguards]

This needs to be shown on TV for 24 hours at least once so people can see how ridiculous it is.

[@SilverState99]

Damn, its like someone has a time machine. This aged really well

[@cosmincristani1993]

Wow. This was worth the watch. It's practically a premonition.

[@agenthunk5070]

360 quality is too 2000 , you could have done 720 or 1080...

[@joachimnuetzel1807]

I watched the movie in 1998. I still have it on VHS, really.

[@joachimnuetzel1807]

And I am a hardcore Caucasian Asperger

[@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477]

@@joachimnuetzel1807me too brother.

[@mattd476]

boy this could not be produced today

[@valdorobantu290]

there is a movie called civil war coming out in april, courtesy of the obama film crew, no joke

[@leonmusk4852]

@@valdorobantu290 Its no where as good or real

[@MercenaryX21]

Of course it could. It would have to be angel studios or somebody like them to do it.

[@dboygamer8184]

​@@MercenaryX21 angel studios cant write out a war film if their buttholes depend on it

[@Arkansan_Rebel]

I learned about this movie watchin' Razörfist. It might be a black comedy, but, Jesus, it's almost reality.

[@darkisato]

2024 and the new civil war is just came out. I had to wash my eyes out with a real civil war movie to hopefully forget that new movie ever existed.

[@GenericName43]

This is way better than A24's film about it

[@goctexas1444]

97> than 24. In what world does CA and TX team up and go through a dozen states to reach DC?

[@rc59191]

I actually thought it was pretty good. I always enjoy seeing things through the eyes of a combat journalist we don't get to see that very often. Them and mortar crews.

[@chadwells7562]

@@goctexas1444CA and TX teaming up isn’t that far fetched if the Union is already failing and they’re antagonistic toward the Feds. Driving on to DC would depend on what other states supported them, how the Federal military breaks up, etc. Improbable but not impossible.

[@stelladavis7832]

Yep, bring in the third world and become the third world. Movie aged like wine

[@FullPlaythroughs]

35:54 I can't stop laughing at Ron Perlmans reaction to the deadline 🤣🤣

[@florinivan6907]

They're ripping off HBO movies from the 90s now?But with aging Mary Jane in the lead and no Ron Perlman?What a letdown.

[@Valentin_126]

Funny how this movie predicted the happenings of today nearly 27 years ago, only it's not Idaho but Texas, the issue of illegal immigration and the goverment's refusal to do anything about it, and a state defying the goverment's orders, with many more states supporting Texas in their goal of closing the border, all of it bringing the US ever closer to a hostile internal conflict. We saw the writing on the wall decades ago and yet we painted over that writing.

[@jitkundough]

2024 . #PredictiveProgramming

[@worldofdoom995]

Thanks for posting this.

[@meshworkj]

Federal government needs to be dismantled.

[@otarimuradishvili5540]

Now even more than ever before

[@DOOMSDAY144]

This Movie Lines Up With American Current Situation At The Border. Only That It's Texas, #ComingCivilWar

[@otarimuradishvili5540]

@@DOOMSDAY144 the wild cowboy doesn't take shit from the Feds house anymore... yup

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

And what could replace it, a on conclave of old fools or we get American Bonaparte,

[@hothemeep1219]

​@@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723Longue vie à l'empereur

[@rossbarrie8904]

Ages better every year... cough cough... saying as a canadian thankfully.... lone star state.... cough cough

[@whatareyoulookingat908]

Sorry about your country's drop, amigo.

[@LibertyPrime1982]

At least I won't go to jail for misgendering someone

[@roddmann2015]

Forgot about this movie. Thanks for the upload

[@EMT_Rick]

My uncle has a 5 second part in the movie. Then he is killed off

[@leonmusk4852]

Pretty sure the guy who made this is a time traveler. Its only gotten closer to realism. We even have chinese immigrants massing to the states now also. Plus you have Desantis closing off borders for a similar thing

[@LibertyPrime1982]

Do you think Poopy pants Biden is thinking he's going through an FDR phase? 😂

[@pacemaker9483]

Not a time traveler, you could witness the trend even back then. Illegal migration is not a new issue but they decided to open the floodgates so you're starting to see the societal problems

[@jimi99colorado]

Wow, what a brilliant script and cast. Found it thanks to NYT article about the best films of James Earl Jones. Never heard of it before. Thanks NYT and societymakesmybloodboil!

[@JohnDoe-zu2cm]

Terrifying

[@steviebrock8200]

6:38pm The Second Civil War (1997) is more intriguing than the vapid "Civil War" (2024) now playing in theaters. Civil War is about a coming of age female war photographer. Not a story about an American civil war as the title or advertising implies. The Second Civil War touches on issues, situations and the players that could possibly lead to the outbreak of another civil war. Connects more with current events which Civil War(2024) does not do.

[@RingworldTyrant]

Incidentally, a lot of the "underground" political trends and some of the outsider political movements, like the Reform Party or Buchannan and his associates, as well as some of the motivations from the Left or from Green Activists, are seeing resurgence now. Of the most primacy, as it was then, is mass immigration, as well as national automony and self-sufficiency. So this movie resonates far more topically than the new movie, which doesn't portray any of it. A movie that did handle the problems with depth and context would probably not be allowed to be released by studios, or would cause mass controversy and probably fuel a chaotic social situation. This movie is a comedy, but far more salient a commentary, the fact that it came from someone highly critical of the nativist sentiments it portrays notwithstanding.

[@martingooding8989]

War movies don't have to deal with the issues at stake to be good, imo. We all know what a second US civil war will be about, so why bother? They would've ostracised half the audience with whichever side wonl ! There aren't many Vietnam movies that explained why that war happened, & lots of them are good. And what's wrong with a coming of age story in a war movie? Movies don't have to be about just one thing! I've noticed many people become enraged because modern movies often have a political perspective. In this comments section many are upset that Civil War (2024) has no political perspective. I guess movie producers can't win.

[@rc59191]

I lost it when they opened up a casino at Little Bighorn. 😂😂😂

[@imperialgrunt]

Now this is the film that should’ve been hyped for 2024 instead of that trash A24 Civil War movie.

[@dboygamer8184]

Fact

[@VictorCho]

How is it that this movie nailed the current state of America all the way back in 1997? Uncanny.

[@aarond1622]

LMAO at the Chinese "Rhode Island" national guard.

[@olbillyboi1829]

200 days till it begins

[@MiraaksWife]

Your watching from 2024 as well nicr

[@redclayscholar620]

Pull your cranium from your colon.

[@danlomanalo4161]

I wonder if the chinese will use a 2nd civil war as an opportunity to invade taiwan and asia?

[@saplamaciabbaskara2167]

😮 this is happening right nowwwww

[@pdonsudlor5429]

Towards the end when they realize that James Coburn is full of shit. Phil Hartmanns look is priceless

[@AlfredShitcocks]

"Florida was the swing vote in the last election" That didn't happen until 2000

[@nomadterry6146]

This is 2024 now.

[@thewildwegonian92]

The irony of this movie is it is being proved in small parts here and there with how congress acts, how people treat issues and "debate them", as well as the conflagrations between your average person. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if I looked in this comment section and saw examples of what I refer to. But nevertheless it is a sad reality that a movie from nearly 30 years ago is showing trends and patterns of how we act as a nation and the scary reality of just how easy it is to simply fall over the edge. An American 2nd Civil War is a war that would be mired by factionalism, division and self interests. People here think the Syrian Civil War was bad, well it'll look like lego duplo blocks compared to a continental sized de-evolution of these United States, likely becoming the largest humanitarian crisis ever seen in recent memory. If I had to say one thing it is this. You will never please everyone, hell you may never even please 50 people in your life span. But just cause you don't please them, doesn't mean you should hate them. Just cause someone upsets you doesn't mean you should "kill them". Just cause things feel hard or unfair, doesn't mean you should force others to make it as such. Life was never sold to us to be easy, if it was that person was lying to you, and if someone says life is easy...well then in all honesty they're likely not truly living it.

[@LetsFindBetterDays]

RIP James Earl Jones 💔

[@okand7046]

Saw a few clips of this was so interested I just had to come here this movie aged like a wine

[@markoredano9141]

"El countryo es muy fuckedupy-o.. Can you network guys understand that?!?" - LOL'd. Epic.

[@MikeSchmidt]

never knew this existed. Producers must've chosen Phil Hartman after his Reagan "mastermind" sketch on SNL. Reallty like Hartman but he's a bit over the top here.

[@jimi99colorado]

kind of an airhead but not completely, I liked his performance

[@Liverpool196YNWA]

WTF is this doin in my Recommendations? I find this very Curious seeing the way America has been playing out the last Month! Very Curious!

[@GregKearns-d4m]

We're coming texas 😮

[@crapphone7744]

I can't believe the president didn't know that Erica Kane was running off with a gardener. Talk about out of touch.

[@johnschafer-oh7zj]

love this movie its hard to findthis on vhs or dvd.

[@johnschafer-oh7zj]

James Earl Jones and Phil Hartman R.I.P.

[@JOESMITH-qs8ue]

A parody of the political nature before the internet made it a disturbing reality.

[@isartoraplatz]

😂 This shows you just How smart your fearless Leaders are 😂…Y’all We are in big trouble 😂

[@soarsbrokenchains7527]

I was recently thinking about this movie……….I can’t imagine why

[@bloodykiwi1235]

The indian congressman from Alabama was something 😂

[@Ascreaminghotdog]

This movie skit would have been better if the governor of Idaho didn't have his head over heels for the Latino reporter. Also kinda casually just mentions Alamo and statue of liberty getting attcak without much mention of their own national guards being mobilized..

[@MusicalMarble]

True. This and the lobbyist in the white house both created a vibe where the film rode a line between serious and satirical. I couldn't tell what the filmmakers wanted us to feel for most of the movie.

[@leonmusk4852]

Except our politicians are just as stupid in scandals.

[@ryanreyes4622]

Wow I am literally living in this film like everyone else!

[@Akrafena]

RIP to a real one

[@rileykoman7654]

Rest in peace Phil Hartman

[@severussnape222]

The Doctor emh and Darth Vader together in the midst of a US civil war

[@Solongsocialmedia]

Lord vader is gone.

[@dylantyt6654]

I would be on Idaho's side

[@wombocombo9676]

Hello from eagle pass boys

[@TheBestDog]

'The Second Civil War' is similar to today's political scene. It involves two strong leaders at odds, each with quirks, and neither has their full attention on the task.

[@motorhead158]

2024

[@VinluvAntonHandesbukia]

This is a documentary!

[@JarvisTastic]

The racist kryptonite: hot latina

[@heroesytumbas]

Good movie, though the title is misleading. A civil war involves two factions fighting over control of the country, but this, like the previous one, were about fed overreach and tyranny.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

A revolution/independance war is is civil war if it loses.

[@povertyiscreated2265]

Wow, just wow

[@michaelpolydorou5678]

this is america right now ,, scene by scene coming close

[@craigpatterson6225]

I was actually in this Movie , i was with James Earl Jones and we talked during our break , he was the Nicest Man and Brian Keith was very very sick , a acting buddy of mine we were talking and Brian Keith was walking back to his trailer then he fell down , My buddy and i went to pick him up but the Staff and PA's made it to him first . My God he was so old and sick , 2 months later he was dead due to Suicide and 2 months after his daughter committed Suicide as well 💔😪 . James Earl Jones was very nice to me , Rest in Peace Mr. Jones , i will never forget you ❤🙏🏾

[@LivelyStoneYT]

Everything in this movie is happening right now

[@Onigirli]

Wtf... what an interesting find

[@ishikawagoemon4397]

Civil war 2024 are trash compared to this masterpiece

[@freedmen123]

Looking forward to getting to see everyone in this comment section get blackbagged in the first five minutes.

[@antonbruce1241]

Interesting that they had James Earl Jones as not only the narrator, but the intro voice for News Net - he did the same thing for CNN ("CNN - the most trusted name in news")

[@MercenaryX21]

I remember seeing this movie on TV at 1 point not the whole thing just the part where they were in the airplane with the refugees

[@freundentum]

I could see movie when I was a teenager, at the end of the nineties ... I looked for in the context of the recent movie on the same subject. It is worrying how fiction is snatching the land of reality. It seems better to me that of "The Second Civil War", the argument seems more solid to me.

[@arielg7000]

😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MichaelKurse]

It Has Begun!🤔🤔🤔😒😔😔😔

[@olavocoelho8659]

The renake are out, i love this novie

[@pre-workoutoverdose2252]

This is ironic

[@alphamale2641]

This is why elections matter. It is one thing to come to America when there was nothing here but raw land and build it up to what it is today. It is a whole other thing to come to America after it has been build up and want to receive benefits.

[@johnschafer-oh7zj]

when the general's meet and talk about the race to Kuwait city doesn't sound like Iraq 2003.

[@jone8626]

They where talking about the First Iraq war where they liberated Kuwait from Iraq. Early 90's.

[@patrioticbastard5935]

I was there in 95.. maybe it was a race, for us on the ground, it was hell we shall never forget