The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical film directed and written by Takashi Yamazaki. Concerning the building of the battleship Yamato, the film is based on a manga by Norifusa Mita. It is a fictionalized telling of the political maneuvers, specifically pertaining to budget and cost issues, that led to the decision to build the Yamato. The movie was dubbed into various languages and distributed worldwide. Archimedes, famous for Lever and Fulcrum, was quoted, Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. The cost of a project, like the choice to carry it out, is like Archimedes’ fulcrum: a solidity around which the world must swing, whether to success or destruction. Hence the name.