Canada here. It would depend on context, but if that wasn’t clear, I’d assume American Civil War.
Charles wouldn’t make a good hero either. I’d like to see something about Cromwell’s generals, maybe, possibly someone completely invented for the film but relatively historically accurate. They could get gradually disillusioned with Cromwell (as did happen to many) and maybe help Chuck 2 to get the throne back, only to realise he’s a different sort of bad. Or something like that. It could be interesting, anyway.
Well, there is Cromwell with Richard Harris. The film’s other merits or lack thereof aside, casting Harris almost automatically turns him into a fascinating quasi-anti-hero. Except maybe when he was playing Dumbledore, there was always something slightly menacing about Harris ;).
I was about to mention Cromwell. I think it’s a good movie covering the period.
There was a mini-series “By the Sword Divided” about the English Civil War. I think Julian Glover(the villain in the third Indiana Jones movie) was a central character.
If it would be just “the civil war” with absolutely no context whatsoever I’d think of Finnish Civil War, since I’m a Finn. The American one would most likely be next in my mental queue.
American civil war. Even though I was born in the UK the English one was too long ago. And I’m reading Gone with the Wind these days.
Hey, maybe it would have been called something else. Spain has had about 10 Civil Wars since we actually became a single kingdom again (and that was only in the 19th Century), but they all have different names.
(South African) Absent any context, I think of the American Civil War.
Irish Civil war.
In context though I’d pick up on American, Spanish and English.
If I hear just “Civil War” in English, I’m gonna have a hard time figuring out which war is meant (except if I’m talking with some Americans). If I hear it in my first language, that is if I hear “guerre civile”, I m gonna think of the Spanish Civil War (but that’s Picasso’s fault. His Guernica piece kind of sums up every and any civil war for me).
We refer to the American Civil War as the War of Secession here.
England is just the same (even excluding the other constituent parts of the UK) – depending on where you draw distinctions between civil wars, wars of succession, revolts, revolutions, and rebellions. Even the one we call “The Civil War” is more like three separate wars over a short period of time.
American. I’m a New Zealander who has lived in the UK for the past five years.
That’s pretty much the plot of the 2003 film, To Kill a King, which starred Dougray Scott as Fairfax. Which was released to general indifference.
cool - I’ve just added it to my Amazon wishlist.
Good point.
“We fight for Puritanism, the abolition of Christmas, and the oppression of the Irish!”
Only one of those things is any fun.