In today’s world, the possibility of citizens facing martial law is not entirely far-fetched. In such a scenario, citizens must be prepared to navigate uncertain and restrictive environments.
As the prepping community knows, being ready for emergencies is crucial. One way to prepare is by watching movies dealing with the theme of martial law.
They can provide valuable insights into how to respond and adapt in such situations. In this article, we will explore some of the best movies that deal with martial law and offer lessons in preparedness for the prepping community.
The Siege
‘The Siege’ (1998) is a movie directed by Edward Zwick that revolves around the fight for truth and justice amid oppressive measures.
Denzel Washington and Annette Bening play FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard and CIA operative Elise Kraft, respectively.
The film is set in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in New York City, and it explores the protagonists’ determination to uncover the truth behind the attacks while battling against both external threats and internal subversions within the government.
The movie emphasizes the need for vigilance, community cooperation, and resilience in the face of government overreach, offering valuable lessons in preparedness for those navigating uncertain and restrictive environments.
Red Dawn
‘Red Dawn’ (1984 and 2012) follows the story of brothers Jed and Robert.
Along with a group of teenagers, they fight back against a foreign invasion that overtakes their town.
The movie portrays themes of resistance, survival, and the power of unity in adversity.
The group evolves into a guerrilla force and navigates acts of resistance against the occupying troops. ‘Red Dawn’ showcases strategies for forming alliances, organizing resistance, and employing guerrilla tactics in hostile environments.
Tomorrow, When the War Began
In the film ‘Tomorrow, When the War Began,’ a group of teenagers fights against an invasion that overtakes their town. They quickly adapt and become resourceful warriors, executing strategies to resist the invaders.
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The film emphasizes themes of youth empowerment, adaptability, and resilience, offering valuable lessons for preppers navigating uncertain and challenging environments.
28 Days Later
’28 Days Later’ is a movie directed by Danny Boyle, where Jim wakes up from a coma in a deserted London, finding it ravaged by a viral outbreak that turns people into raging zombies.
He encounters Selena and other survivors while facing the infected and military-enforced quarantines.
The film captures the struggle for survival under military control, ethical dilemmas, and alliances formed under dire circumstances.
The movie is intriguing for preppers due to its portrayal of isolation protocols, the importance of hygiene during pandemics, and strategies for navigating authority during quarantine.
The Forever Purge
‘The Forever Purge’ is a film about a world where an annual event, the Purge, becomes an unending nightmare.
Characters Adela and Juan try to survive in a society that has broken down.
Themes of survival, crises, and security are explored.
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The film depicts strategies for survival, fortification techniques, and conflict resolution in lawless situations. Preppers would find the movie intriguing.
How It Ends
‘How It Ends’ is a film directed by David M. Rosenthal. The story revolves around Will and his father-in-law, Tom, who are navigating through a chaotic world.
The movie showcases their attempts to find Will’s pregnant partner, Samantha, amidst the turmoil, encountering various challenges along the way.
The film offers valuable insights for preppers preparing for uncertain and potentially catastrophic scenarios.
The Postman
In ‘The Postman,’ directed by and starring Kevin Costner as the titular character, the story follows a drifter named Shakespeare.
He adopts the identity of a postman after finding a postal worker’s uniform and bag.
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He inadvertently becomes a symbol of hope and resistance against General Bethlehem, portrayed by Will Patton, and his tyrannical militia, which seeks to dominate the post-apocalyptic landscape. Moments in the film capture Shakespeare’s journey as he travels from town to town, delivering mail and spreading hope among the survivors.
Outbreak
In ‘Outbreak,’ directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the story revolves around Colonel Sam Daniels, portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, and Dr. Roberta “Robby” Keough, played by Rene Russo.
The film explores the government and military response to a deadly virus outbreak caused by a mutated strain of Ebola.
The theme of government intervention in the face of a deadly outbreak is prominently portrayed. Colonel Daniels and Dr. Keough exemplify dedication and scientific expertise as they confront bureaucratic hurdles and political interference while striving to save lives.
The antagonists are not individuals but rather the bureaucratic red tape and political motivations hindering the containment efforts, creating tension and obstacles for the protagonists.
The Day After
‘The Day After’ depicts the aftermath of a nuclear war on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas. Dr. Russell Oakes, and his daughter Denise, are the main characters.
The movie showcases the sudden horror and chaos of a nuclear attack, highlighting the struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Dr. Oakes and Denise, along with other survivors, are portrayed as resilient and resourceful in navigating the destruction and seeking shelter amidst the nuclear fallout.
The film portrays societal breakdown and emphasizes the importance of preparedness, self-reliance, and community cooperation in surviving catastrophic events.
I Am Legend
‘I Am Legend’ is a movie about Dr. Robert Neville, played by Will Smith, who is the last human survivor in a world overrun by mutants.
Neville is a military virologist who tries to develop a cure for the virus that decimated humanity while struggling with loneliness and despair.
The film highlights the importance of self-reliance, fortifying against threats, and maintaining a sense of purpose in the face of overwhelming isolation. It offers valuable insights for preppers preparing for survival in post-apocalyptic scenarios.
How I Live Now
‘How I Live Now’ tells the story of Daisy, a young woman sent to the English countryside during a war outbreak.
The film explores the theme of individual survival in a world without a government, and it follows Daisy’s journey of adaptation, resilience, and forming alliances with her cousins.
The movie offers valuable insights for preppers preparing for survival in challenging and uncertain environments.
Movies are not only great for family time or entertainment, but they also allow us to think critically and explore different scenarios.
The film we have discussed in this article provides valuable insights into navigating through uncertain and restrictive environments that might arise from the imposition of martial law.
They offer lessons in preparedness, and by watching them, individuals can get a glimpse of what the reality of martial law could mean.
So, the next time you watch a movie, remember that it could offer more than just entertainment; it could help you prepare for any emergency situation that might arise in the future.
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If we vote Trump back, just how pissed off these scum bags that Hate america will become.
Okay, they will start the war here on our land.
They have to stay in power, no matter what. Even if they call for Marshall law.
They have to DESTROY america and you and your family.
Fight, never give up. Never back down and fight for our guns, with out them YOU will become nothing but a slave even the ones that go along with this nightmare, they too will become slaves also.
“Only the elite will live”, YOU will just become expendable, or better yet, a pet for there in joyment.
Better vote, your life depends on it…
stay super sharp
John 3:16 it means forever…
Amen and Amen!!!! I am an old widow,with loads of wisdom, that NOBODY wants or cares about. I live alone with zero family and my closest friends have all passed away in the last 5 years.
We all know that I won’t last long,but I will go down fighting.
May God Bless each and every one of you who will stand up for America!!!!
I would drive you, nuts, asking questions and listening to you. I just don’t know how they could happen. Best to you.
Patriot Lana
Your never alone. God has been there all the time.
Stand strong…
We are your family now…
stay sharp
Meant to give 10 thumbs up !!! You don’t live to be over 75 and not learn a lot !! And NO one cares !
You’re not alone, you have us here on this Prepper web site, we’ll be glad to become your extended family.
If you feel like it, contact Claude here on this site, I’m sure he would let you become an author here so you can share your knowledge and wisdom with us.
Well written. Amen to that!!!
Also John 3:18…
The article is about left wing Hollyweed movies that dream on. Everyone can dream about what SHTF will be like. It will depend on location, location, location!
No all of the SHTF will be one big cookie cutter situation. There will be local pitfalls that will get us. In today’s woke society the weak gullible mindset population will more likely commit their own Seppuku and Harakiri endings from depression.
The internet will be gone in SHTF, no more smartphones, old low tech will be the basic building blocks to reset society once more.
Lol voting is pointless
Raven
It’s pointless when you don’t vote.
That’s okay, there are a lot of freeloaders, that don’t vote either.
Please, don’t let the border hit you in the ass, on your way out.
stay sharp
Red Ant…. oh don’t worry i am sure trump going to save you…….
look if you didn’t learn in 2020 … you will get a refreasher in 2024
Raven
Trump can’t save me, only JESUS can do that.
Hey just like I said,.Dont let the border hit you in the ass on the way out.
stay sharp
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Maybe. After 2020 you may be right. If the same happens in 2024-there will be a Civil War. Just a prediction, not a promise.
I’m 56 yo and I will NOT be voting in this election for the first time in my adult life. Voting no longer matters. The coup has already taken place. You seen it with your own eyes in 2020 when the bags of ballots were taken out from under the table at 3:00 in the morning. The vast majority of Americans voted for the guy who “lost”. Am I really naive enough to believe that the same people who orchestrated “JB’s” election will somehow allow T to be elected this time? Absolutely not. However, if T is allowed to win this time, you must ask yourself why did they allow it? They can easily cheat him out of it without anyone contesting it, just like last time. Maybe it will be for him to offer America a deal we can not refuse, in order to make the pain go away.
VOTE ANYWAY..YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE.
@badboy4unix I have my time to lose. I am not going to pretend like everything is “normal”, I am past that.
What about that new movie, Leave the World Behind??? I thought it to be thought provoking, even before and after I found out it’s Executive Producers were the Obama’s…. Knowing that they were involved somewhat in the production, probably financially, didn’t sway my thoughts on the movie… and for sure I’m not and never will be an Obama fan,,, or any other Socialistic Democrat…LOL
The tv series “Jericho” is another good one to watch. It’s only a season and a half but does have an ending due to rowdy fans complaining after the first season was canceled to bring it back. The plot; terrorists strategically position nuclear devices and cripple our country from within. The inhabitants find themselves struggling to survive dwindling resources and the unexpected. It’s better than most of the films that were listed here. Available in complete box set for you to binge watch, lol.
The terrorists who planted the bombs were folks in our OWN government. How did you miss that? Remember where Jake brought the bomb that was not set off by Robert Hawkins? He brought the proof to Texas because WE stood for RIGHT, and the American way.
Omega Man with Charlton Heston came out before “I am Legend” – it’s the same story.
And “The Last Man On Earth”, with Vincent Price came out well before either. All are adaptations of Richard Matheson’s novel, “I Am Legend”
And before that was “The Last Man On Earth” with Vincent Price, my personal favorite.
If anyone needs a Biblical reference for encouragement to prepare?
Matthew 24
IITimothy 3
It describes today in detail.
People laugh at me when I tell them I watched The Walking Dead. They asked me why?? I actually watch it for how they prepare and survive and improvise weapons. If you watch it from that standpoint, you get a lot of little pointers.
IKR? It wasn’t about zombies, it was about survival and interacting with people you maybe shouldn’t trust.
Most zombie movies with decent ratings cover the same themes.
That is true. There is also a movie called Bushwick.
Reality : the movies portray a lot of the left agenda s before they go into action with thier plans
covid was actually played out long before the actual events by the WHO , Un and others
Plan , Socialist control then dictatorship
The Postman is a great example of the 1st stages
The the End is portrayed in the appocolips now
The Day after is , example of after man does himself in
to see what i mean , look at the atitude of the phchos thru out the world with too much power and money
seems like they all use people and sell them lies to accomplish their hate and agenda s
God never ever supports evil , or anti agendas of hate , and distruction
God is Love, Forgiveness, justice right up to death
not willing that any should perish and that all would come back to him in repentance of heart
Hi guys! I agree with you all! I have found that these movies that portray horrible apocalypse type themes are all to make us all less afraid of what’s to come. A good movie sequel is the hunger games as well. The Maze and Scorch trials. Divergence series. All about perseverance and unity to survive.
Panic in Year Zero is worth watching. Very informative. It’s an older movie. Don’t let Frankie Valli discourage you from watching.
I saw that at the drive in on Dollar a carload night. Ray Miland, right?
Looking for a book? Read One Second After. So much I never thought of!
Excellent book, Just read it for a second time.
Read it a few months after it came out got hold of at least a dozen of them and passed them around. It’s one book I say often you will never forget. Every time I get on a freeway going far at all I think of it!
I listened to it as an audio book, really took it to heart. It changed my mind about how quick things can change and the need to be prepared.
I read it in two days! I couldn’t put it down! I’ve just finished it for the second time.
It covers the small stuff that you don’t think about. I recommend everyone read it and take notes.
“Real Scary Shit Alert”!!!
Dr.John Campbell a teaching physician/virologist has posted
an informational on Chinese scientists have developed a new virus that attacks the human brain and will be 100%
fatal.The virus was developed in the Wuhan Laboratory that
allowed the Covid to escape.
The podcast has been taken down from UTUBE twice. You
may find it on Rumble.
It is still found on SurvivalBlog.com dated Jan.13 Saturday.
Dr.Campbells information has always been spot on going
back back to the beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
It’s called virus X.
Chuck, I heard the same thing.
Get ready for Hell, coming to your door step.
stay sharp
I’m getting ready for heaven Harpodzo! (Lat. rapturo)
Guy’s a crack pot .
If this were true it’d be on the front page and we’d be going to war .
Scareing you like he wants .
Better buy more prepped shit.
Definitely watch The Road with Viggo Mortensen from 2009
The Road (2009 film)
While we are on this subject I wanted to point you to a new movie/show being put out by Angel Studios (Sound of Freedom, The Chosen) called “Homestead”. Here is the teaser – looks really good and from a conservative producer.
Homestead | Official Teaser
Look forward to that show
I am reading the book that came from right now. Black Autumn. Amazing book!
The whole series is very informative, and it’s a good read.
Everyone should see Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston. It’s what will happen if society doesn’t break down/have a major correction soon.
ha – with all the food chain destruction going on i’ve been saying (of course only us old farts ‘get it’) soon enough they’ll be feeding us soylent green!
I’m old enough to have watched Soylent Green when it first came out… I figured it out before the end…. but it’s the movie I think of when I read about the fake meat from chemicals and the bad guys destroying the meat and veggie farms. They always tell us what they are doing or going to do. raise your own food…if you can.
If any of you actually want to KNOW the truth, read Revelation 6:1-8! That’s a given!
A lot of christians will be fooled when the rapture doesn’t happen and they follow the Anti Christ
The TV series “Revolution” was another one that was good. I never got to finish it… Even The Hunger Games was a believable scenario.
“Idiocracy” is a good one to watch….. a silly, mental slap-stick, comedy…. that appears to be impossible to ever materialize….. until you take a long look around and see how the world is today. Then it isn’t so funny.
It’s a HORROR flick 😉
“doomsday ” is another survival/gvot exposure movie ..virus hits UK..hadrians wall gets fortified…economy tanks…..govt uses the virus to off the unwanted….survivalists run the gamut…
another realistic movie is doomsday…virus…uk…blockade..segregation…govt cause…reaction…
My Favorite Genre since seeing Damnation Alley as a kid!
The Day after Tomorrow (2004)
Greenland (2020, Gerard Butler)
Doomsday
Finch
2012 (John Cusack)
Dante’s Peak (Peirce Bronsan)
Geostorm
Take Shelter
Zombieland (Woody Harrelson)
The day after tomorrow
The book of Eli (Denzel Washington)
CloverField
The Mist
The happening (Mark Funky Wahlberg)
Legion (
Stranger Things (Netflix series set in the mid 1980’s, Mathew Modine, Wynona Rider, badass viking Santa guy as Hopper)
The Birds (Hitchcock)
It looks like there really trying to kill off our county,
There still using GMO in your soaps you buy ,
Just read the can before you buy it,
I should of , I put 8 can down the drain,.
Yes I heard a bout the virus yesterday,’
And if you can find it on the net,
Look up.
2024 : America’s Descent in to the Fourth Turning,
And there planes for this country,
Shift, You can bet on it, The Preppers are right on point, WE need TRUMP NOW,
He won Iowa , They ask Biden what it meant to him , His reply, I don’t Iowa means any thing , Trump got over 54.730 votes, in Iowa, If the Dems fail They have plans to unleash BLM- ANTIFA terrorist in to the streets armed to create chaos as an excuse to not hand over power to trump , they are vigorously at war against the American people by rigging the election including FBI CIA BIG MEDIA , and other governmental agencies, and discarding the U,S constitution., A civil war has already begun. Can we has American people save our county. . I pray we can , We are at the cross roads , They plan on turning the banking system up side down, And steal you life savings, , Then come for what you have also worked for. , If they think you have to mush , They plan to take what they feel you do not need, , Will the men in the military stand with that kind of Government Knowing that there doing the same thing to there families, . Trump 2024 Dam the Dems. More and more are turning , Knowing what could be coming and Voting for TRUMP, Iowa proved that,
To destroy the middle class started in the mid 70s That has brought us to this point.
and time , They no long will be able to control the world .
So now there out to in force it on the American people so they
can still feel powerful . and take a way all American FREEDOMS.
A little surprised the film The Stand wasn’t mentioned. I kept thinking about that film during Covid.
Even tho Stephen King is a Biden thumping liberal, the film is realistic, in many ways – the end of the World as we know it. Of course it will be at the hands of the corrupt government!
Yes, isn’t it disappointing how King has turned out?! Not so much into his supernatural books but The Stand was an amazing novel on many levels. Too bad.
“Atlas Shrugged” is the blueprint for where we are headed.
Ayn Rand’s genius was to condense how Totalitarianism slowly and inexorably takes control of democratic societies. Anarchy and chaos eventually paves the way for the destruction of society and paves the road for Totalitarianism and Tyranny to take control.
I finished it about 8 months ago and literally could not distinguish between events in the book and the news I was watching on the various MSM channels.
The takeaway for me is that the tool of enemies to liberty is to divide us. Our first and foremost task is to rebuild the connections to each other, reestablish mutual respect and unite. It’s the thing that the forces of control fear most: the power of the people.
I read 54 years ago as 16yo. Read it in one go, only slept two hours that night.
I came from a small family. They are all deceased now. I have no family left. My few real friends are all deceased, too. Alone I may not last long, but I will fight.
About aliens, but works too: The 5th Wave
Meteor
The Day After Tomorrow
The Andromeda Strain
When is ” HOMESTEAD” coming out ( Angel Studios)? THAT sounds tailor made for the prepper set
I just started the Catalyst Series by JK Franks. Pretty good so far.