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Amerika : Season 1
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Air date: 15 Feb '87 - 11 episodesAmerika – suggesting a Russified name for the United States – is an American television miniseries that was broadcast in 1987 on ABC. The miniseries inspired a novelization entitled Amerika: The Triumph of the American Spirit. Amerika starred Kris Kristofferson, Mariel Hemingway, Sam Neill, Robert Urich, and a 17-year-old Lara Flynn Boyle in her first major role. Amerika was about life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union. Not wanting to depict the actual takeover, ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard set the miniseries ten years after the event, focusing on the demoralized American people a decade after the Soviet conquest. The intent, he later explained, was to explore the American spirit under such conditions, not to portray the conflict of the Soviet coup. Described in promotional materials as "the most ambitious American miniseries ever created," Amerika aired for 14½ hours over seven nights, and reportedly cost US$40 million to...
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List of Episodes (11)
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Amerika (1987)
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1. Prisoners in Their Own Land
A decade after its defeat, America is occupied by a United Nations peacekeeping force, the United Nations Special Service Unit (U.N.S.S.U.). The U.N.S.S.U. is composed primarily of Eastern Bloc forces, and is overseen in Milford by an East German, Major Helmut Gurtman (played by Reiner Schöne). U.N.S.S.U. troops periodically engage in "training exercises" which are destructive in nature and intimidating to the local population. Those Americans who engage in dissent are stripped of their
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2. The Face of Occupation
At great personal risk, Samanov finally convinces the Soviet leadership to accept a compromise plan: no nuclear weapons will be detonated, the United States will be divided into "client states" such as Heartland, and the United States Capitol will be destroyed as a symbolic gesture of the end of America. At the same time, members of the United States Congress are killed in a "terrorist attack" when they refuse to disband their legislative body. After the attack is carried out, Samanov surveys
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3. Shadows of Fear
Damn, I'm so tired of this "I'm an American" bull! Where was all that patriotism when it counted? Where was that willingness to sacrifice? Nobody wanted to join the damn army to defend the country unless they got paid well! Nobody wanted to give any time to public service unless they could make a career out of it! And I didn't notice a lot of us giving up our lives in the last 10 years!
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4. Episode 4
18 Feb '87We are the voice of the new generation. We are the voice of the new people. The destructive ways of the past are gone. We will replace them with our vision of the future. The Party will lead us to the new age. There have been those who have tried to stop the new age. They are the corrupt reminder of the past. They have tried to confuse us with the idea that the old America was a good country. We know that lie. History teaches us that lie. We are grateful to our Soviet brothers who saved the
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5. Episode 5
19 Feb '87In the final episode of the miniseries, Heartland is about to secede from the United States, with other regions to follow. Heartland troops, along with local militia, attack the local U.N.S.S.U. compound, effectively declaring war on the Soviet occupation, and there is mention of a Second American Revolution. The miniseries ends on a downbeat note, however, when Devin Milford is shot and killed as he is about to make a nationwide broadcast calling on Americans to resist the breakup of the United
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6. Episode 6
20 Feb '87
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7. Episode 7
21 Feb '87
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10. Episode 10
24 Feb '87
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11. Episode 11
25 Feb '87
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12. Episode 12
26 Feb '87
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13. Episode 13
27 Feb '87
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