World War III (1998)
- Original title
- Der Dritte Weltkrieg
- Directed by
- Robert Stone
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- 0
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This German pseudo-documentary imagines an alternate history where a Soviet crackdown in 1989 triggers a global conflict. It mixes real news footage with newly filmed scenes to show how a different Cold War outcome might have looked.
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What happens
World War III (Der Dritte Weltkrieg) is a 1998 German alternate history television pseudo-documentary, directed by Robert Stone and distributed by ZDF. An English version was also made, which aired on TLC in May 1999. It depicts what might have transpired if, following the overthrow of Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet troops, under orders from a new hard-line regime, had opened fire on demonstrators in Berlin in the fall of 1989 and precipitated World War III, leading to an alternative outcome of the later period of the Cold War. The film mixes real footage of world leaders and archive footage of (for example) combat exercises and news events, with newly shot footage of citizens, soldiers, and political staff. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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