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Possible Addition[edit]

It seems to me that "The Day After" should be on this list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jim Nightshade (talk • contribs) 06:14, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How can "Star Trek:First Contact" be here and yet Bill & Ted are not?!?

And how can "Back To The Future: Part II" be here when part 1 is not?!?

Can/should these be added?

Almost none of these are alternate history. Someone needs to tighten the definition here. --DanielCD 21:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria[edit]

I have a couple questions as to how these films were chosen for this category. Some make sense (i.e. 2009 Lost Memories, Watchmen or Fatherland). Although I will say Fatherland should be piped directly to the section about the film. Now, my question is: Why is Air Force One and Dave included? Because the events in the film never happened? Guess we should put every single completely fictional movie in this category, then. Why include Dave but not My Fellow Americans? As for Cold War-era films like Red Dawn and Amerika, I don't think they belong here, solely because they were made when they were a possible future, not a "imagine something went wrong in the past … and this happened" type of thing. After all, The Day After isn't listed here, right? I don't want to unilaterally delete any titles without some discussion, but if I don't get some kind of explanation within the next couple days, I'm going through this with a machete. --MicahBrwn (talk) 01:25, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed films[edit]

The following films were removed because they weren't true "alternate history" films.

The Cold-War era films Red Dawn and Amerika were removed because they were portraying a possible future, not a possible present if the past had diverged. Movies like Dave and Clear and Present Danger were removed because they were portraying a fictional present, not a divergence of the past. First on the Moon does come close, but as it was a mockumentary much along the lines of Dark Side of the Moon; that is, something that one shouldn't take too seriously, it's out. --MicahBrwn (talk) 00:35, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed

A Boy and His Dog (1975 film) --movie poster clearly states the movie is set in 2024
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes -- it was set in the then future 1991
Things to Come -- 1936 film that portrays a possible future from 1940 on

--216.31.124.206 (talk) 21:31, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]