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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 1998 Mockumentary Made-for-TV Movie by Robert Stone and produced by ZDF Television and TLC, World War III (Der Dritte Weltkrieg in Germany) is about ... well, World War III.More specifically, this movie is an Alternate History tale with the divergence point being in the fall of 1989: Mikhail Gorbachev is disposed of in a coup and replaced with a hardliner General named Vladimir Soshkin who quickly undoes the reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika. The film then covers the events of the following months in which international outcry grows as the Soviets escalate the crisis to a full blown World War.While the movie does contain interviews with fictional characters who have a role in the events, it's most notable for being composed almost entirely of Stock Footage of both military combat as well as real life heads of state making statements that are edited in a way to fit the story. As such this film hardly averts No Celebrities Were Harmed and it adds a heightened sense of realism.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The movie can be seen in its entirety here.Not to be confused with the 1982 NBC miniseries of the same name starring Rock Hudson.
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 Alternate History: The point of divergence is the fall of 1989 when Gorbachev is disposed of in a coup.
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 Acceptable Breaks from Reality: The Wham Line leaves one wondering just how a documentary such as this could have been made if humanity's historical record ends once the nuclear exchange begins. However, it helps to look at this film as being similar to The War Game in the sense that this movie is what could have happened rather than what did happen.
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 Achilles' Heel: NATO manages to destroy the highly centralised Soviet command bunkers in southern Poland and in other nearby Warsaw Pact countries, crippling the Soviet's ability to effectively control their forces, starting the painful retreat for the Soviet Union and its allies.
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