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- DirectorLee Dong-JoonSi-myung LeeStarsJang Dong-gunTôru NakamuraJin-ho SeoA failed assassination attempt in Harbin, China in 1909 changes the course of history. Now two JBI agents must find the connections between it and an ancient Korean artifact.Alternate history where preventing a key assassination allows Japan to retain power after allying with the US in WWII.
- DirectorChristian DesmaresFranck EkinciStarsMarion CotillardMarc-André GrondinPhilippe KaterineIt's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.Steampunk alternate history where technology stagnated after the Franco-Prussian War was averted.
- DirectorJörg ButtgereitThilo GosejohannStarsAdolfo AssorAnnette BorchardtUwe MeyerAfter the Nazis took power, the resistance searched for a solution to end Adolf Hitler's evil dictatorship. They formulated a plan to bio-engineer super-human assassins, eventually finding their man in one Captain Berlin.Comedy about an alternate history where Hitler's preserved brain lives on after his death.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsBoris VlasovViktoriya IlyinskayaAnatoliy OtradnovBy means of archival footage, this mockumentary "reconstructs" how the Russians secretly realised the first manned flight to the moon as early as the 1930s.Mockumentary about an alternate history where the Soviet space program succeeded in beating the US to the moon in the 1930s.
- DirectorMike SleeStarsMark StrongJock McLeodJoan GregsonDocumentary-drama recounting the Martian War of 1913 - 1917. Europe was on tenterhooks in the 2nd decade of the 20th century, everyone was expecting a Great War between the major European powers. But then, in 1913, something crashed into the forests of SW Germany. Troops were sent to investigate but were wiped out. Martian fighting machines began making their way across Western Europe and the countries of Europe combined forces to resist them. With aspects taken from "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells and from WWI itself, this dramatisation presents a documentary style look at events as they unfolded and the effect they had of our world today. Lots of references to real events including the mass attacks and defeats as men were thrown against machines on the Western front, the Christmas truce and the Angel of Mons, America's isolationism and late entry into the conflict, the worldwide "Spanish" flu epidemic that killed more people than the war, and many other things.Alternate history reimagining WWI as a war against alien invasion, as in The War of the Worlds.
- DirectorKenji KamiyamaHiroyuki OkiuraStarsMichael DobsonYoshikazu FujikiSumi MutohA traumatized member of an elite para-military police force falls for the sister of a female terrorist courier who died in front of him on duty.Anime set in an alternate Japan where Germany won WWII and the police now fight terrorists.
- DirectorShimako SatoStarsTakeshi KaneshiroTakako MatsuTôru NakamuraSet in a fictional Japanese city in 1949, a master criminal hones in on his latest victim.Anime set in an alternate 1940s Japan where WWII never occurred, allowing technological advances.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsLeonardo DiCaprioBrad PittMargot RobbieA faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.Alternate 1969 Hollywood where Sharon Tate avoids being murdered by the Manson Family.
- DirectorMichael MalianiRobert BrousseauVincenzo TrippettiStarsEdward AsnerAngela BassettLucas BlackWhile on a school field trip, two friends travel through time and meet Martin Luther King Jr. at different points in his life.Alternate history where a time traveling MLK Jr sees the segregated future and redoubles his civil rights efforts.
- DirectorShinji TakagiKatsuhiro ÔtomoStarsAnna PaquinPatrick StewartAlfred MolinaIn 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.Steampunk anime film set in an alternate 19th century Britain advanced by steam technology.
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiYoshio SuzukiStarsHidetaka YoshiokaMasato HagiwaraYuka NanriIn an alternate postwar timeline, Japan is divided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South.Anime set in an alternate world where corporations engage in endless staged air combat using child clones.
- DirectorMamoru OshiiStarsRinko KikuchiRyô KaseShôsuke TaniharaThe Kildren, a group of eternally young fighter pilots, experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds.Anthology TV series with many episodes set in alternate timelines and realities.
- DirectorMatthew VaughnStarsJames McAvoyMichael FassbenderJennifer LawrenceIn the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik's vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to divide them.Animated superhero film set in an alternate world where the Nazis won WWII.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsMayumi TanakaKeiko YokozawaKotoe HatsuiA young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.Anime film set in an alternate world where militaristic nations battle over a legendary floating castle.
- StarsMasali BaduzaJack RowanHelen BaxendaleDrama set in a dangerous, alternate world where racism divides society.British TV series set in an alternate history where Africa colonized Europe, reversing racial power dynamics.
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsJacques PerrinVittorio GassmanGiuliano GemmaLieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.Film set in a fictionalized alternate version of the pre-WWI Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- DirectorRyôtarô MakiharaStarsClint BickhamPietro BiondiMassimo BitossiAfter breaking the law of reanimating human corpses, young Watson has to either work for the government or face punishment. He has to go on a secret mission, to find the notes of Viktor Frankenstein, who reanimated the first human corpse.Anime film set in an alternate 19th century where Victor Frankenstein’s experiments drastically changed history.
- DirectorHiroyuki YamagaStarsLeo MorimotoDavid ThomasMitsuki YayoiIn an alternative Earth, a young astronaut participates in a controversial fledgling space program.Anime set in an alternate world undergoing a different Cold War-like space race in the 20th century.
- CreatorEric KripkeShawn RyanStarsAbigail SpencerMatt LanterMalcolm BarrettAn unlikely trio travels through time to battle unknown criminals and protect history as we know it.Time travel TV series about preventing alterations to the historical timeline.
- DirectorNatalie ViglucciStarsShatiana BanksChad SteersFilm set in an alternate America with racism and power dynamics reversed.
- DirectorWolfgang BeckerStarsDaniel BrühlKatrin SassChulpan KhamatovaIn 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.Comedy about hiding the fall of East Germany in an alternate 1989 where the Berlin Wall never fell.
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsWill SmithBill PullmanJeff GoldblumThe aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.Alien invasion creates an alternate history 21st century with Earth unified against invaders.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsSamuel L. JacksonKurt RussellJennifer Jason LeighIn the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.Tarantino Western set in an alternate history post-Civil War frontier.
- DirectorJohn GlenStarsTimothy DaltonMaryam d'AboJeroen KrabbéJames Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies, and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications.James Bond investigates an eccentric villain recreating an alternate Gettysburg outcome.
- DirectorAnna O'DonnellStarsLauren BaileyEddie BarooLulu McClatchyWhen battle re creator Richard learns his fiancee has written a life plan that does not involve his passion for history, Richard confronts her and discovers that she is his mightiest opponent yet.Film reimagining the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg with a Confederate victory.