Synopsis
Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) is a Channel 4 television film directed by Toby Haynes — watch it online on iFILM. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Dominic Cummings, the political strategist who ran the Leave campaign in the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership.
Cummings as written by James Graham is neither a villain nor a champion — he's an optimizer who treats elections like engineering problems. While the Remain camp runs a conventional operation with focus groups and party donors, Cummings is buying behavioural data and microtargeting voters the other side hasn't even identified. Rory Kinnear plays the counterpart navigating the Remain machinery. The film's tension comes not from the outcome — everyone knows it — but from watching two very different ideas of political persuasion go head to head.
The screenplay draws on real interviews, documented campaign records, and parliamentary hearings. For anyone interested in how modern political campaigns actually work, Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) is the rare dramatization that gets into the data. Stream it online on iFILM.
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