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

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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