TOP 5 ALTERNATIVE HISTORY MOVIES

For the alternative history movies list we need to put aside that all historical movies are showing alternative history because not a one shows actual history as it happened. In historical movies, there is always more drama and more righteous heroes that save day/world/lady in the last seconds, etc. A pure example is Queen’s bio picture Bohemian Rhapsody. That movie has so much made up drama and facts that it could be placed among alternative history movies. Here you can check TOP 5 Bohemian Rhapsody historical mistakes.

Alternative history is more frequent in books than in the movie. Perhaps, book authors more wonder about a reality that might be if history luck briefly switched sides. Usually, alternative history stories are built in realty were bad guys won in clash of good and evil, reminding us that we should be thankful for good side victory.
Of course, that main fixation in alternative history books is what if Nazi won a second world war.

In this TOP 5 list, we included movies with a big shift in history (WHAT IF MOMENT) that is a past event in the story and it changed the course of known history. Out of this list are movies that have WHAT IF MOMENT happen at the end. Like sadistic kill of Hitler or sadistic kill of whole Charles Manson gang.

Here are TOP 5 ALTERNATIVE HISTORY MOVIES.

Fatherland (1994)

Probably the first movie that most of the people think when they hear alternative history movie. Fatherland is an adaptation of Robert Harris‘s book with the same name.
WHAT IF MOMENT is Nazi victory in WW2 in Europe because D day was not successful and the US withdraw from Europe battlefields, only maintaining war with Japan.
The story is set in 1964 with Germania as ruler of the whole of Europe except Vatican City, Switzerland, and the USSR. Antisemitic Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. is selected as US president, and it is an opportunity for Nazi leadership a chance to secure a détente with the United States. The main character is S.S. officer investigator Xavier March (Rutger Hauer).
Absolutely must watch.

It Happened Here (1965)

The movie also WHAt IF MOMENT where Nazis won WW2.
It shows a history where the United Kingdom has been invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany after the Dunkirk retreat. The plot follows the experiences of an Irish nurse working in England, who encounters people who believe collaboration with the invaders is for the best whilst others are involved in the resistance movement against the occupiers and their local collaborators.
The plot is set in the year 1944, and England is governed by the British Union of Fascists

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977)

WHAT IF MOMENT of this 1977 movie is what might have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald had not been killed by Jack Ruby and had stood trial for the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
The plot is set in a courtroom and it has no intention to give you straight answers, only doubt and suspicion.

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)

This 2004 American mockumentary WHAT IF MOMENT is the Confederacy win in the American Civil War and establishing the new Confederate States of America that incorporates the majority of the Western Hemisphere.
The “documentary” story is told by British eyes and showing continuing existence of discrimination in American culture.

History of the World: Part I (1981)