It's not war. It's survival.

When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earths major costal and riverside cities, a U.S Marine staff sergeant and his team are sent into battle only to find they must take it upon themselves to defeat an unknown enemy and protect what remains of Los Angeles.
In Battle: Los Angeles, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien invasion war”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing war, survival, sacrifice, militarism, alien.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Battleship (2012)E8/E11 · alien, militarism
Black Crab (2022)E8 · militarism, sacrifice
Avengers: Endgame (2019)E8/E11 · sacrifice, war
Venom: The Last Dance (2024)E8/E11 · militarism, sacrifice
Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996)E8/E11 · sacrifice, war
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)E8/E11 · alien, survivalThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Priest (2011)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, war
Mars Attacks! (1996)E12/E14 · rare rung · militarism, war
The War of the Worlds (1953)E13/E14 · rare rung · militarism, survival
Restart the Earth (2021)E10/E14 · rare rung · sacrifice, survival
Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)E6/E13 · rare rung · militarism, survival
Them! (1954)E14 · rare rung · militarism, survivalOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Battleship Island (2017)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion
The 5th Wave (2016)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion
Project Hail Mary (2026)consciousness in aliens · interstellar rescue
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion
Cosmic Sin (2021)consciousness in aliens · interstellar war
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)consciousness in aliens · interstellar warThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)consciousness in machines · militarism, survival
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)consciousness in machines · militarism, survival
Alien (1979)consciousness in monsters · alien, survival
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · survival, war
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)consciousness in animals · survival, war
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)consciousness in objects · sacrifice, warShared director or cast.