I would like an as-comprehensive-as-possible list of alternate history movies. I don't mean historical movies with gross inaccuracies like Braveheart. I don't want mockumentaries like CSA either. I mean legitimate movies that have a legitimate alternate plot or timeline from OTL. Do any exist, and what are they?
List of Alternate History Movies
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2009: Lost Memories
2002 South Korean action-adventure alternate history thriller. In 1909, Ito Hirobumi, then the Japanese Resident-General of Korea, survives his assassination from Korean nationalist An Jung-geun. Over the course of the 20th Century, the Japanese Empire remains a strong rising military power, and tightens its grip over Asia (particularly, for the story's purposes, Korea). Japan also allies with the United States during World War II, which ends with atomic bombs dropped on Berlin.
In ATL 2009, the Korean peninsula, as well as its people and culture, has been thoroughly Japanized. The protagonist is a Japanese government agent of Korean ancestry, who is put on the case of stopping an underground Korean nationalist resistance organization, bringing about torn loyalties.
Check out the intro timeline scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--GdDrkp6IE
2002 South Korean action-adventure alternate history thriller. In 1909, Ito Hirobumi, then the Japanese Resident-General of Korea, survives his assassination from Korean nationalist An Jung-geun. Over the course of the 20th Century, the Japanese Empire remains a strong rising military power, and tightens its grip over Asia (particularly, for the story's purposes, Korea). Japan also allies with the United States during World War II, which ends with atomic bombs dropped on Berlin.
In ATL 2009, the Korean peninsula, as well as its people and culture, has been thoroughly Japanized. The protagonist is a Japanese government agent of Korean ancestry, who is put on the case of stopping an underground Korean nationalist resistance organization, bringing about torn loyalties.
Check out the intro timeline scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--GdDrkp6IE
Interesting, I'll have to check that out. Does the movie go into why the United States and Japan formed an alliance?
weirdly enough, I once saw "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" described as AH... which it is, if you think about it...
I guess you could stretch the Sherlock Holmes movies with Downey and Law as Alternate History.
Hmmm, I suppose any movie set in a future time we've already reached is alternate history. 2001 A Space Odyssey certainly is.
That's considered honorary alternate history, if we are willing to be charitable.
Most would consider those not real alternate history as there was no conscious decision to change the past; by that definition it is science fiction.
Not really, unfortunately. The story stays very focused on Korea, which is a little frustrating, because you get the strong sense that, with the way this world shaped up, the 20th Century experienced some enormous butterflies that would've also affected Europe and America as well.
Still a pretty good movie, though, and one of the few films out there that seriously explore an alternate history premise.