VIDEO AMERIKA - 1987 TV mini-series (full series) ["A better quality version of the series is located in Post #23"]

1911user

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Originally a 7 night TV mini-series on ABC in 1987, it's on youtube broken into 13 parts. Each part is 45 to 60 minutes long.
The quality isn't that good, but it is the only source I can post.

Alfaman thought this would be appropriate considering recent events. I agree.


Link to info about the show: Amerika (TV Mini-Series 1987) - IMDb

- 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.


Trailer (2 minutes)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPy0bNRK0w


1 of 13
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU49MR19CcA


2 of 13
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpkLM05ht4


3 of 13
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BHT_rQxrw


4 of 13
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d4ChT8eABo


5 of 13
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scwt4-LVJyk


6 of 13
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mf3pYyk5PY
 
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1911user

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AlfaMan

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This series has been haunting me for the past two days. Watched it when it first came on; now we're actually living it. One phrase in the movie haunts me-"You lost the land".
We have indeed lost the land, for real and forever. Enjoy the next 12 days, we won't see days of prosperity, free speech, 2A, etc after they're gone.
 
Melodi

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I have to say that as a musician, this series has some of the best MUSIC I have ever heard used on TV, the version I saw (back when John Galt FL had us watching it each week for his show) was very badly recorded obviously off someone's old VCR of the original broadcast but it was still absolutely amazing.

A lot of the "soul/spirit" of America (the one with a C) is in the music from Broadway Musicals to African-American Gospel Choirs, classical music, pop and folk.

The acting, writing and storytelling are also superb, I am sorry I didn't watch it when it came out but my household in Denver didn't watch much TV, and we just didn't realize how important this show was.

The other thing I loved about it (especially compared to today's slip-shod and truncated storytelling) is the way the characters develop and that the people seem human (even the "bad" guys).

I am so glad 1911 posted this, a great time to re-watch this one!
 
AlfaMan

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Just watched 3 of the 13 parts. Makes me want to cry,seeing what we're losing. But it angers me as well.
And anger is a powerful motivator.
 
Grouchy Granny

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I've had it on DVD for years. I think my son might have borrowed it so I need to get it back.

I remember when it first came out on TV and we watched it.

Scary then, scarier now - just substitute China for Russia.

Thanks 1911! What an awesome find.
 
Melodi

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Grouchy Granny said:
I've had it on DVD for years. I think my son might have borrowed it so I need to get it back.

I remember when it first came out on TV and we watched it.

Scary then, scarier now - just substitute China for Russia.

Thanks 1911! What an awesome find.
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Actually, China would be very different - Russians are mostly Europeans, sure they are also "Easterners" so they don't think quite like Americans or Brits, but we have enough cultural similarities that it was relatively easy to show the "human side" of the Russians in Amerika.

The Chinese are of course, fellow human beings (my nephew is half-Chinese we have members here of Chinses backgrounds or their spouses are) but their culture is very very different from ours.

Their values, what is considered "the honorable thing to do" and loyalty are all different concepts translated into the same worlds in English.

Without giving anything away, the idea of what is "honor" and "Loyalty" to both country and humanity play extremely important roles towards the end of this series.

The Chinese have those but they are somewhat different from those of the West; I think a Chinese takeover would be very different than an old fashioned Soviet one would have been - not that I would want to live through either, but I've always felt that in many ways, Russia is a surprising enemy for the US as there are differences but also many things in common.
 
BUBBAHOTEPT

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You know that saying recently, that THEY are really after us and Trump is just in the way, is starting to take on a whole more serious meaning.... :kaid:
 
Grouchy Granny

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Very true Melodi - thanks for the corrections. There is "face" and there is "face".

I do think Chinese tend to be more polite (based on the ones I personally know), but they can be more bloody minded in some ways than the Russians.
 
Melodi

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Grouchy Granny said:
Very true Melodi - thanks for the corrections. There is "face" and there is "face".

I do think Chinese tend to be more polite (based on the ones I personally know), but they can be more bloody minded in some ways than the Russians.
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Hi I didn't really mean it as a "correction" just some of my thoughts, but I think if it sort of like if Americans and Russias are basically from Mars, then the Chinese and other Asian countries are sort of from Pluto.

Not wrong or anything but very different, Japan is a special case because its culture was already very different from most of Asia and they have had many more decades of "Westernization" than China has.

Their people have had a lot more time to internalize both Eastern and Western idea systems and add them to their own and very original cultural platforms.

China on the other hand is a country that essentially dragged a huge portion of its population from famine-wrecked rural farmers to having both a huge urban working and middle class. History shows that while people can change their technology that quickly, it takes time for a lot of cultures to catch up, and yeah I'd say bloody-minded is a good way for a Westerner to look at some of this.
 
AlfaMan

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Watched most of it last night. The parallels to current events is unnerving to say the least.
10 more days and if Comrade Joe and the HO get sworn in, this movie becomes a blueprint for real events.
 
Mongo

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First episode (thanks for posting it), guy singing “Try to Remember” looks like Adam Sandler
 
1911user

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Betty_Rose

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Watching it now. Its accuracy to contemporary events is utterly jaw-dropping.

Whoever penned this story knew their history very well.
 
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When "Amerika" first came out I recall the patriots at that time said it was put out by the One Worlders. The reason they said was to demoralize Americans from thinking they would be free in the end.

Nonetheless everyone thought it was powerful.
 
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Back in the 80s I was given a Russian phrase book for a Soviet occupation of the US. I remember one of the phrases as being something like, "Where do I stand in line to get my ration book?" It was very well done (seemed like a professional printing job) and I think the Russian translations were actually correct. I gave it away to somebody who was really into that stuff, but recently I thought about it and tried to find another copy. I tried without success using search terms like "Russian phrase book Soviet occupation US." So my question is, does anyone else remember anything like that? And if so, can they suggest better search terms that might help me find a copy?
 
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By the way, I stumbled across this on eBay. I didn't even know there was a follow-on mini-series and IMDb doesn't show it. Too pricey for my tastes, but if you have more money than you know what to do with it might be something worth watching. This eBay seller isn't me and I'm not associated with it in any way, I just found it interesting that it even exists.

Rare 1997 AMERIKA - 10 years after the Soviet TakeOver - 5 DVD set
$195.00 w/ $4.89 s&h
www.ebay.com

Rare 1997 AMERIKA - 10 years after the Soviet TakeOver - 5 DVD set - Seychelles | eBay

Check photos in super size view to verify condition. THE PICTURES ARE ALWAYS OF THE EXACT ITEM YOU ARE PURCHASING.
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AlfaMan

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tanstaafl said:
By the way, I stumbled across this on eBay. I didn't even know there was a follow-on mini-series and IMDb doesn't show it. Too pricey for my tastes, but if you have more money than you know what to do with it might be something worth watching. This eBay seller isn't me and I'm not associated with it in any way, I just found it interesting that it even exists.

Rare 1997 AMERIKA - 10 years after the Soviet TakeOver - 5 DVD set
$195.00 w/ $4.89 s&h
www.ebay.com

Rare 1997 AMERIKA - 10 years after the Soviet TakeOver - 5 DVD set - Seychelles | eBay

Check photos in super size view to verify condition. THE PICTURES ARE ALWAYS OF THE EXACT ITEM YOU ARE PURCHASING.
www.ebay.com
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If I had the cash I'd buy it. But after replacing a trans in the blazer and now rear axle seals and bearings in the Vitara (guess it got jealous I wasn't spending money on it?), have to pass.

Tomorrow's invite only speech to (some of) Congress smacks of a few scenes in the movie Amerika though. Art imitates life.
 
1911user

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I think that DVD set is the original mini-series on DVD. It probably is uncommon, but nothing new to the story.
The original was "10 years after the soviet takeover of the US."
 
Melodi

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Somehow I missed the better quality version which I will have to try and watch - the music in the serious was absolutely astounding but the poor sound quality of the version I watched made it difficult to hear sometimes.

I don't think I have EVER seen a TV show with such an amazing array of musical talent used to properly tell a story, I suspect Kriss got some of his friends from all sorts of musical backgrounds (classical to jazz, gospel to Broadway and folk) to at least cameo on the series.

It harkens back to a time when performers really understood the power of music and its importance, especially during times of oppression and as means of quiet rebellion masked as "tradition."

Oh and speaking of things that are spookily like "today," that "National Anthem" for the new Soviet client state is absolutely chilling as it his every "button" just like it is supposed to...
 
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tanstaafl

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1911user said:
The original was "10 years after the soviet takeover of the US."
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I believe you're right, in which case nevermind! Reading the IMDb page for the 1987 mini-series shows this: "Taglines: 1997. The world is different. The dream is the same. Let freedom ring."
 
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