Battle: Los Angeles

Battle: Los Angeles (2011) is a sci-fi war movie from director Jonathan Liebesman that you can watch online on iFILM. UFOs turn into landing craft, coastal cities fall one by one, and a single Marine platoon is ordered to hold what is left of L.A.

Aaron Eckhart plays Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz, a veteran days from retirement who instead has to drag a green squad through a burning city. Michelle Rodriguez joins as an Air Force tech sergeant, and Ramón Rodríguez and Michael Peña round out the unit. The aliens stay half-glimpsed; the camera ducks and shakes with the troops, shooting the firefights like embedded combat footage.

This is street-level survival rather than a galaxy-saving spectacle, built on cramped block-by-block gunfights and exhausted men under fire. For grounded military action with the stakes set on one neighborhood, stream Battle: Los Angeles (2011) online on iFILM.