A Cannon Falls Boy Scout will receive a high honor this month. 16-year-old Liam Dewanz’s Eagle Scout project helped restore the city’s Civil War monument. For the last year, Dewanz helped clean up the ...

When Stephen Marche began writing a book that imagined a future civil war in the United States of America, he repeatedly found himself having to throw out large chunks of text because the very ...

While the United States faces very real threats from extreme polarization and rising political violence, a modern repeat of the Civil War is basically out of the question (especially the film’s ...

Alex Garland’s incendiary “Civil War” is now in theaters, and it’s sure to get people talking. The film imagines a near-future where America is engaged in another Civil War, this time with ...

Alex Garland’s Civil War may think it’s removed its own biases from this story about war photographers in a time of real-life political crises. But its pompous insistence that the movie is ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

A still from director Alex Garland's film "Civil War." (Courtesy A24) What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Writer-director Alex Garland’s “Civil War” begins with a provocative ...

In A24’s new dystopian thriller Civil War, you can almost hear writer / director Alex Garland working through a mountain of complex ideas about how the United States could collapse and what it ...

If the concept of director Alex Garland’s Civil War is taken on a surface level, it is easy to say that releasing a film like it during an election year is provocative, to say the least.

Here’s one thing that’s not in dispute about Alex Garland’s new Civil War, his big-screen depiction of how an internal military conflict might unfold in a hopelessly divided America ...

Dystopian thriller "Civil War" topped the charts in its box office debut on Friday, bringing in $10.8 million. A24 “Civil War” hit the box office with a bang. The dystopian film about a second ...

I've covered TV, music and pop culture for over 6 years. Written and directed by Alex Garland, Civil War is set in a dystopian future in the U.S. “where a team of military-embedded journalists ...