Every version of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion — the films & series, compared across media.
Neon Genesis Evangelion and Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion share a world where Angels have returned to threaten what remains of humanity. The television series follows mankind's underground survivors as the Angels prepare to finish the job; the 1997 film brings that story to a crisis point, as SEELE attacks NERV and Shinji is forced to decide the fate of humanity. Together they tell one continuous story across two distinct media.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) is a film set in the same world as the TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995), continuing that story's central conflict over the Human Instrumentality Project.
This page covers two: the original TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) and the film Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), both sharing the same characters, factions, and apocalyptic premise.
The TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion establishes the world and its central conflict; The End of Evangelion continues that story directly, so the series provides essential context.