Be afraid of the dark.

The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “machine war on Earth”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, war, survival, power, betrayal.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, technology
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · power, survival
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Priest (2011)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, war
Outlander (2008)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, technologyOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)consciousness in machines · alien‑mech war
Screamers (1995)consciousness in machines · war‑torn mining planet with sentient weapons
The Black Hole (1979)consciousness in machines · robotic starship
Terminator Genisys (2015)consciousness in machines · AI apocalypse
Pixels (2015)consciousness in machines · arcade invasion
Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler (1992)consciousness in machines · interstellar warThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)consciousness in aliens · power, survival
Avengers: Endgame (2019)consciousness in aliens · power, technology
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · power, survival
Godzilla (2014)consciousness in monsters · power, survival
Scary Movie 4 (2006)consciousness in objects · survival, technology
Underworld: Awakening (2012)consciousness in monsters · power, survivalShared director or cast.