Chief of War

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Series

2025

Historical drama

A Hawaiian war chief joins a campaign to unite the warring islands in order to save them from the threat of colonization.

Matt Roush

Matt Roush says...

They weren’t lying when they warned war was coming. In the Season 1 finale of Jason Momoa’s historical epic set in pre-unification Hawaii (directed and co-written by Momoa), battle lines are drawn and crossed when the troops assembled by the fearsome Keōua (Cliff Curtis) and his allies from Maui face the smaller (but better equipped) army of war chief Ka’iana (Momoa) and the more conciliatory leader Kamehameha (Kaina Makua). The grueling and graphic conflict, played out against a hellscape backdrop of quaking earth and an erupting volcano, achieves a mythic quality, like something out of Cecil B. DeMille.

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