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* ''[[Children of Men]]'', where only Britain "soldiers on".
* ''[[Kin Dza Dza]]''.
* ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'': Biff Tannen created an alternate version of 1985 when he gave the [[Timeline -Altering MacGuffin|Gray's Sports Almanac]] to his younger self in 1955. As a result, he became "the luckiest man on Earth" by betting on everything from horse racing to boxing and always winning due to the answers in the almanac. He founded Biffco, a company that dealt with toxic waste reclamation. He bought out police departments, and even altered the state of international history, by prolonging the Vietnam War and getting Richard Nixon elected to his fifth term. As a result, Hill Valley, now heavily polluted and known as "Hell Valley", had been reduced to rubble, where biker gangs and criminals made their home.
* ''[[Pleasantville]]''. The main character, David, watched the show on TV and always saw it as a utopia. When he and his sister end up getting sucked into the TV, though, things aren't as great as they appeared. The place starts out as a nostalgic and pretty view of the 1950's, but later on the uglier side of the decade (like sexual repression and racial discrimination) start to rear their ugly heads.
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* The first season of ''[[Viper (TV)|Viper]]'' takes place in a dystopian [[The Future Is Noir|tech noir]] setting. [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|The day after tomorrow]], society benefits from advanced communication technology and medical achievements such as fully artificial heart transplants. However, this comes at the cost of being constantly terrorized by the organized [[Cyberpunk|techno-mafia]] that closely runs the city behind the scenes. The police are often as corrupt as the criminals they're supposedly trying to stop, forcing the lead character to take the vigilante path in the hope of restoring the city to a brighter state. Throw in the fact the local government [[Big Brother Is Watching|may rob you of your own thoughts and memories if they decide they have a better use for you]], and you start to see how bleak it really is.
* ''[[Blake's Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]''. A [[Space Opera]] in which Earth is run by fascists, where the (few) good guys are criminals.
* ''[[Max Headroom]]''.
* The [[Alternate Universe]] in the ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Back to Reality".
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