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Alternative histories (Motion pictures)


  • Fictional films in which the plot or setting assumes an alternative outcome of an historical event. For nonfiction that presents alternative outcomes of historical events and subsequent changes in history see [Counterfactual histories.]
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    • Alternative histories (Motion pictures)
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    • Allohistories (Motion pictures)
    • Alternate histories (Motion pictures)
    • Histories, Alternative (Motion pictures)
    • Uchronias (Motion pictures)
    • What-ifs (Motion pictures)
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    • found: Work cat.: Inglourious basterds (Motion picture). Inglourious basterds, ©2009(an alternative history film)
    • found: Wikipedia, Nov. 20, 2019(Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy and revisionist war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino; The film tells an alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus, a young French Jewish cinema proprietor and the other by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine)
    • found: Wikipedia, Nov. 20, 2019(Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English) (AH) is a genre of speculative fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently. These stories usually contain "what if" scenarios at crucial points in history and present outcomes other than those in the historical record; another term occasionally used for the genre is "allohistory"; in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and Galician, the genre of alternate history is called uchronie / ucronia / ucronía / Uchronie, which has given rise to the term uchronia in English)
    • found: Wikipedia, Nov. 20, 2019:List of alternate history fiction (films listed include: Went the Day Well?: Nazi paratroopers take over an English village; The Magic Face: Hitler is killed by his valet Rudi Janus and takes his place during World War II; It Happened Here: Nazi Germany successfully invades and occupies the United Kingdom during World War II; Fatherland: based on the 1992 novel about an Axis victory in World War II; Six-String Samurai: the USSR launched several nuclear warheads at the U.S. in 1957, reducing most of the United States to an inhospitable desert; Timequest: a man travels through time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy; 2009 Lost Memories: the Korean peninsula is still a part of the Japanese empire, as Ito Hirobumi was never assassinated, and the Empire of Japan sides with the Allies against Nazi Germany; C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America: the Confederate States won the American Civil War, annexed the United States, and still maintain slavery in the year 2004; Watchmen: Richard Nixon remains President in 1985, years after the USA definitively won the Vietnam War; Inglourious Basterds: a group of Jewish-American soldiers manage to assassinate Hitler)
    • found: The Oxford dictionary of science fiction, 2006, via Oxford reference, viewed on Nov. 20, 2019(uchronia: a work of alternate history; uchronian, adj., uchronic, adj.)
    • found: What is alternate history?, via Uchronia website, Nov. 20, 2019(an alternate history is the description or discussion of an historical "what if", most likely with some speculation about the consequences of a different result; other names that may apply to the genre include alternative history, allohistory, counterfactuals, if-worlds, uchronia and uchronie, parallel worlds, what-if stories, abwegige geschichten, etc.; alternate history involves one or more past events that "happened otherwise" and usually includes some amount of description of the subsequent effects on history; alternate history may appear in novels, short stories, scholarly essays, comic books, movies, television shows, plays and elsewhere)
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    • Fictional films in which the plot or setting assumes an alternative outcome of an historical event. For nonfiction that presents alternative outcomes of historical events and subsequent changes in history see [Counterfactual histories.]
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    • 2019-11-20: new
    • 2020-02-18: revised
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