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When Aliens Attack (2011)
Amusing, but only to be taken with a grain of salt.
This mockumentary, if taken for what it is, is amusing and it does give some good and practical real world advice, mostly being prepared for a disaster and having a plan to survive. They also advice evacuating the cities through the sewers, and avoiding roads and bridges in such a situation. It is highly speculative, but when it comes to a hypothetical alien invasion, speculation is all anyone can ever have. The battle itself, and the human strategies, it looks towards nature and war for tactics that may work (or did work in this case). Some of it, such as humans living in small bands in forests, deserts, and caves and resorting to guerrilla tactics, is probably a very likely scenario should such a thing happen. But nevertheless the premises can only be speculative as we simply cannot know what the aliens would be like, exactly why they or here, or how they would behave. There are aliens, we are humans, and it could have done more to stress that this very fundamental difference makes even "every war game scenario imaginable" inadequate. If you want to watch something to learn, this is not a good pick. But if you want to be entertained in a manner where science and history mingle with the imagination, similar to The Last Dragon, it's an interesting watch.