From Curious Archive.

A Machine Built to End War, is always a Machine Built to Continue War. | Watch my exclusive video ‘When a Weapon Dreams of Peace’ by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/curiousarchive
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0:00 A Weapon to Destroy a God
0:33 Mechanized Godhood
2:13 Evangelion and Fallen Angels
4:05 Towers of Babel
5:17 Atomic Gods
6:59 If War Bad, Why Robots Cool?
8:33 PACIFIC RIM LETS GOOOOO
10:57 Reflections on GOD(zilla)
14:46 Giant God Warriors
17:17 Metal Gear and Armored Core
19:47 Patlabor
21:40 Beautiful Cursed Dreams
22:41 Can a Weapon Dream of Peace?

Media Shown: Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion, Pacific Rim, 1920+, Gasaraki, The Five Star Stories, Metal Skin Panic, Bubblegum Crash, Gunbuster, Gundam 1979, Gundam Unicorn, Gundam F91, Gundam AD, Gundam War in the Pocket, Macross Plus, Patlabor, Patlabor 2, The Vision of Escaflowne, Gigantor, Devilman Crybaby, God of War II, God of War III, Wrath of the Titans, Godzilla, Godzilla Minus One, Shin Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, Godzilla vs. Hedora, Invasion of the Astro Monster, Destroy All Monsters, Come and See, Paths of Glory, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, The Wind Rises, Castle in the Sky, Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo, Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Solid 5, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Death Stranding 2, Armored Core VI

♫ Music licensed from Epidemic Sound

Sources:
"80 Years Ago, Nuclear Annihilation Came to Japan," (2025) by New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-nuclear-photos.html
"Newtypes, Angels, and Human Instrumentality: The Mecha Genre and its Apocalyptic Bodies," (2023) by River Seager
"Is there any such thing as an ‘anti-war film’?" (2014) by Tom Brook https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20140710-can-a-film-be-truly-anti-war
"Little Boy: The First Atomic Bomb," (2020) by Jessie Kratz
"The Tower of Babel," (updated 2025) by Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tower-of-Babel
"The Sacred and the Poetic: The Use of Religious Terminology in Ovid’s Words" (2019) by Idaliana Kaczor