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Feb 9, 2019 · The complete 1987 "Amerika", where the USSR invades and occupies the US. Addeddate 2019-02-09 21:46:49 Identifier Amerika_201902 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 ...
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Amerika: With Kris Kristofferson, Robert Urich, Wendy Hughes, Sam Neill. America has been bloodlessly taken over by the Soviet Union, leading to slave-labor camps for some, collaboration for others and rebellion for yet others.
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Amerika has an indirect connection to another notable ABC program, the 1983 television film The Day After, which some critics felt was too pacifist for portraying the doctrine of nuclear deterrence as pointless. Stoddard cited a column in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner by Nixon speechwriter (and later, television personality) Ben Stein that appear...
Major characters
The storyline of Amerikaprimarily follows three political leaders: 1. Devin Milford(played by Kris Kristofferson): a maverick politician before the Soviet occupation who ran for president in 1988 (in the novel, 1992), after the Soviet takeover began. Milford was placed in a prison camp for daring to speak the truth about the Soviet conquest; at the beginning of the miniseries, Devin is declared "rehabilitated" and released back into society into the custody of his father, who lives in the Neb...
Backstory
Towards the end of the 1980s, as the decline of the Soviet Union puts it in danger of losing the Cold War, the Soviet leadership makes a desperate gamble to rearrange the global balance of power. Four large thermonuclear weapons are detonated in the ionosphere over the United States. The resulting electromagnetic pulse (or EMP) destroys the nation's communications and computer systems, cripples the U.S. electrical grid, and affects any equipment that relies on computer technology, such as mos...
Geopolitical situation
In 1997, a decade after its defeat, the contiguous United States is occupied by a United Nations peacekeeping force, the United Nations Special Service Unit (UNSSU), composed primarily of Eastern Bloc forces. The UNSSU garrison in Milford is under a command of an officer from East Germany, Major Helmut Gurtman (played by Reiner Schöne). UNSSU troops periodically engage in destructive combined arms training exercises which are deliberately intimidating to the local population. Those Americans...
Amerika received mixed reviews; the series created controversy with some. Certain critics and viewers felt it was too long and unrealistic, others argued that it would be damaging to Soviet-American relations, and a spokesperson for the United Nations objected to it being portrayed as an occupying force under Soviet control. Some conservatives felt...
Amerika has not been shown on U.S. television since its original telecast on ABC. A VHS box set of the miniseries was released by Anchor Bay Entertainmentin 1995, but no official DVD release is available. Portions of the soundtrack by Basil Poledouris were released on CD by Prometheus Records in 2004 (in a limited edition of 3,000 copies). The nove...
In February 1987, the miniseries was parodied on the NBC show Saturday Night Live as "Amerida", in which a debt-ridden United States is mortgaged to Canada and subsequently repossessed. It posited Wayne Gretzky as the prime minister of Amerida. The U.S. protagonist (played by Canadian actor Phil Hartman) longs for a country "where you don't have mo...
Amerika at IMDbThe flags shown in the series from Flags of the World.Impact of Amerika from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives- 2
- February 15 –, February 22, 1987
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- Basil Poledouris
Mar 29, 2021 · Amerika Video Item Preview ... Miniseries. Betamax capture. Addeddate 2021-03-29 09:40:10 Identifier amerika-part-3-2-17-87 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4hn5pk4t
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Amerika Season 1 Episodes. A seven-part 1987 cautionary saga set in 1997 America 10 years after a bloodless Soviet takeover was drawn from a column penned by conservative columnist Ben Stein---yes ...
1987 • 7 Episodes. Season 1 of Amerika premiered on February 15, 1987. Part VII. (1x7, February 21, 1987) Season Finale. View All Seasons.
