History Main / DayOfTheJackBoot

* ''Film/ThirteenMinutes'': The film shows the Nazi takeover, which led to the arrest of all Communists in Germany. Elser escapes since he was never officially a Party member, despite being in the associated Red Front.

* ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' had the United States ruled by a Christian fundamentalist president, with people being sent to L.A. penitentiary island just for being Muslim (among other so-called "offenses"). He has himself declared President-for-Life and moves the capital to [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Lynchburg]], Virginia, his hometown. The US military has seemingly been weakened, as a ragtag South American army is a genuine threat to the country. We can probably blame Snake for all of this after he screwed up the President's speech in the [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork previous movie]].

* The 1971 Christian exploitation film ''Film/IfFootmenTireYouWhatWillHorsesDo'' warns that communists will be taking over the United States "within the next twenty-four months". We're shown scenes of what America will be like under communist rule, which mostly consists of people being tortured, raped, and/or killed for being Christians.
* ''Film/InvasionUSA1952'' involves the US being invaded and eventually taken over by [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection "The Enemy"]]. Though this turns out to be [[AllJustADream a hypnotically-induced, shared vision cautionary tale]].
* The 1966 film ''Film/ItHappenedHere'' depicts a [[LesCollaborateurs collaborationist regime]] in a [[AlternateHistory Nazi-occupied Britain]], and the process by which an ordinary person can fall under its sway.
* Invoked in ''Film/LesMiserables1995'' where, hoping to be able to live off Andre's finances, Thénardier tells Andre that the Nazis have conquered Europe. Andre eventually escapes to see that the Germans have been defeated and Europe liberated.
* ''Film/NoneShallEscape'', a 1944 film about a trial against a Nazi officer following the end of the then-ongoing [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII second world war]] where the bulk of the story told via flashbacks from the points of view of the witnesses at the trial, depicts the Nazi invasion and occupation of Poland from the point of view of the small town of Lidzbark.

* ''Film/PowerPlay'' is a 1978 British-Canadian film inspired by the non-fiction strategy book ''Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook'' by Edward N. Luttwak. A group of military officers angry at the corruption and repression of an unnamed European government plan to take over the country.
* ''Film/RedDawn1984'' is a 1984 war film by John Milius about a Soviet invasion of the United States. The [[Film/RedDawn2012 2012 remake]] replaced the Soviets with North Korea, which itself was a last minute replacement for China.

* The 1995 adaptation of ''Film/RichardIII'' had the Shakespearean BigBad taking over 1930s Britain and turning it into a quasi-fascist absolute monarchy.
* In the 1977 film ''Film/SleepingDogs1977'', UsefulNotes/NewZealand slides into fascistic martial law after oil embargoes and industrial disputes flare into full-blown civil war. This was the [[GenrePopularizer first film entirely produced and set in New Zealand]].
* The entire plot of ''Film/ThirtyEight'', a film about the March 11, 1938 ''Anschluss'', the Nazi Germany takeover of Austria.

* The German movie ''Film/TheWave2008'' (a remake of ''Film/TheWave1981'') has this happen in a high school.

* ''Literature/TheChildrensStory'' by James Clavell. A young [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep teacher]] comes to class to tell the students about their bright future with their new government. She's is chillingly charming, especially in the film adaptation (which may or may not be on Website/YouTube) and quite successfully converts her class. Watch it and tell me you wouldn't fall for it.

* The UsefulNotes/ColdWar novel ''Literature/TheFourthProtocol'' by Creator/FrederickForsyth details how a hardline communist faction within the Labour Party could take over Britain. And on the other side of the political spectrum, ''A Very British Coup'' by Chris Mullin has British conservatives and the CIA plotting to overthrow a socialist Prime Minister.
* The sci-fi trilogy by Creator/PeterFHamilton about psi-boosted private investigator Greg Mandel is set against a Britain recovering from a communist dictatorship.
* ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' by Margaret Atwood is based in the theocratic and misogynistic "Republic of Gilead", which has seized control of most of the United States.

* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/InThePresenceOfMineEnemies'', Nazi Germany conquered most of Europe (including England) during World War II, and the United States in the 1970s.
** His later novel ''Literature/JoeSteele'' is set in an alternate timeline where UsefulNotes/JosefStalin is born in the USA and turns America into a totalitarian police state during the Great Depression and World War II.
* Creator/JackLondon wrote ''Literature/TheIronHeel'', which details the long resistance against a then-futuristic American fascist state.
* One of the original examples is likely Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel ''Literature/ItCantHappenHere'', which is about Fascism taking root in the United States.
* The Creator/CyrilMKornbluth novella "Two Dooms" is about a worker on the Manhattan Project who travels to a future in which the Bomb was not developed and hence the Axis powers won WWII. The United States of this future are divided between the Germans in the east and the Japanese in the west.

* Creator/PhilipKDick's ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'' is an AlternateHistory novel in which America has been divided between the victorious Axis Powers: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
* Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' is probably the most famous example. [[WordOfGod In the author's own words]], the book "is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralised economy is liable and which have already been partly realised in Communism and Fascism... I believe also that totalitarian ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere, and I have tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences. The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasise that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, ''if not fought against'', could triumph anywhere."

* ''[[Literature/ParableOfTheSower Parable of the Talents]]'' by Octavia Butler has the U.S. become a theocracy in which non-Christians are put in concentration camps.
* Creator/PhilipRoth's ''Literature/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'' is kind of a SpiritualSuccessor to the Sinclair Lewis novel, and uses the idea of Lindbergh becoming President and instituting Nazi-lite policies.

* The AlternateHistory novel ''Literature/ResurrectionDay'', by [=Brendan DuBois=], is set in a United States that has become a military dictatorship after the Cuban Missile Crisis turned hot. Elections are still held, but because the Democratic Party is blamed for starting the war, the US is the equivalent of a one-party state, with the military holding the actual power.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein wrote ''Literature/SixthColumn'' (aka ''The Day After Tomorrow'') in 1949, in which the [[YellowPeril [=PanAsians=]]] take over a United States which had retreated into isolationism. In Heinlein's ''Future History'' 'verse, the USA goes through a period as a fascist Christian theocracy, begun by [[SinisterMinister televangelist]] Nehemiah Scudder, as depicted in ''Literature/IfThisGoesOn''.

* Creator/JoWalton's ''Literature/SmallChange'' trilogy (''Farthing'', ''Ha'penny'', and ''Half a Crown''). They are set in an alternate England in which Rudolph Hess successfully brokered peace, and the main character is Inspector Peter Carmichael, who [[BigBrotherIsEmployingYou works for the Fascist dictatorship government]]. A number of the characters are inspired by people like Unity Mitford -- upper class high society people who favored appeasement during the 1930s and afterward.
* ''[[Literature/{{SSGB}} SS-GB]]'' by Creator/LenDeighton is a story if Hitler had invaded England and won. The name means SS-Great Britain. The book ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'' seems to take a lot of its story from ''SS-GB''. Both are excellent stories but if you read ''SS-GB'' first (it was written first) you tend to think ''Fatherland'' is more of the same. If you read ''Fatherland'' first you might think SS-GB is an old hat.

* ''Literature/{{Tracer}}'' by Stuart Jackson, set in a [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 1999 Britain]] controlled by a neo-fascist government as a result of the AIDS crisis. The protagonist is a [[BigBrotherIsEmployingYou policeman whose job is to track down AIDS carriers]] -- he gets caught up in a power struggle involving the old political parties who are trying to wrest power back from the new Hard Right.
* The ''Literature/Trauma2020'' novels by Peter Beere (''A future so terrible, you won't want to live long enough to see it!'') were set in a fascist dystopian Great Britain.
* The totalitarian New Order in the ''Literature/WitchAndWizard'' trilogy by Creator/JamesPatterson.
* Creator/JRRTolkien describes pretty much this happening to Númenor under its last king Ar-Pharazôn in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''.

* ''1990'' was a BBC series from TheSeventies in which Britain, after an economic collapse, is run by the Home Office's Public Control Department, a VastBureaucracy that maintains strict control of goods and services and uses Adult Rehabilitation Centres to 'cure' dissidents.
* There was a miniseries in TheEighties called ''Series/{{Amerika}}'', about a Soviet takeover of, well, guess where. It involved an ambiguous ending that made it appear that the Americans were preparing a rebellion, without actually saying who wins in the end.

* ''Series/{{Defiance}}'': Season 2 opens after a 9 month TimeSkip, during which the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Earth Republic]] has taken complete control of the town. While the E-Rep's propaganda talks about how much safer and prosperous they've made the town, there's also the fact that the gulanite miners are worked so hard that half of them have become drug addicts to cope with it, and accidents are common. Meanwhile, those who speak out against the E-Rep are either locked up, or suffer "[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident accidents]]".
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]] is set in a MirrorUniverse in which the UK is a fascist 'republic', whose [[StateSec paramilitary goons]] refer to a 'Defence of the Republic Act, 1943', implying the regime was the result of the UK losing the war.

* Rutger Hauer TV Movie ''Film/{{Fatherland}}'' (based on [[Literature/{{Fatherland}} a novel by Robert Harris]]), set in a 1964 where the Nazis won.

* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** TheMovie of ''Series/KamenRider555'' portrayed an alternate timeline in which the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Orphenochs]] overthrew humanity as dominant species. The world here is ruled by a MegaCorp and everyone inconvenient to the new regime would be disposed of.
** The ''[[Series/KamenRiderAmazon Amazon]]'' story arc of ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' took place in a parallel universe which had been completely taken over by Dai-Shocker. The Nazi imagery is really obvious here, as the military police wear German stahlhelms and children are required to salute their superiors with a gesture that resembles the Nazi salute.
** In [[Series/KamenRiderOOO OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders]], some [[Series/KamenRiderDenO time-travel shenanigans]] lead the heroes to an alternate timeline where Shocker (after uniting with many of the evil factions of other Rider series) already took over Japan and is close to getting the world as well.
** This trope is revisited in ''Film/SuperHeroTaisenGPKamenRider3'', where Shocker's newest weapon, Kamen Rider 3, kills the original Double Riders back in the past, creating a timeline where, you guessed it, Shocker controls everything. Complete with [[MillionMookMarch combatmen marching on the streets]], [[Series/KamenRiderDrive the Special Crimes Unit]] [[EvilCostumeSwitch all dressing in]] [[PuttingOnTheReich snazzy Nazi-like uniforms]] and {{Zeppelins from another world}}.
* One episode of ''Series/LoisAndClark''. They had all the swastika banners and uniforms in place after years of preparation while establishing their "all-American" identities.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' took place in an alternate timeline where Germany won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and Britain was made into a Nazi province (for extra black comedy, the timeline was the result of [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct a bungled attempt by a Jewish time-traveler]] to kill Hitler and '''avert''' the Third Reich). All things considered, the differences between the timelines are not that great, but still disturbing. The community center is now a detention center for delinquents and undesirables, and people with powers are being rounded up so that Seth the Power Dealer can transfer their abilities into high-ranking Nazi officers. Shaun, the apathetic and slightly corrupt social worker from the real timeline is now an apathetic and ''very'' corrupt Nazi official. Curtis and Alisha, being black, are reduced to second-class citizens-Alisha's drunk-driving would have earned her a ''prison sentence'' if Shaun hadn't chosen her as his "personal assistant." As a final insult, [[TheWoobie Simon]] has been conscripted into the local Nazi regiment, and is bullied into executing defenseless prisoners.
* ''Series/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'': This AlternateHistory tale depicts an America where the isolationist aviation hero Charles Lindbergh becomes president in 1940 and starts enacting Nazi-friendly policies. In spite of never explicitly demonizing Jews, his policies treat Jews as an alien population who need to be absorbed into "the real America." American government and culture quickly go down a path that draws obvious parallels with Nazi Germany. In the final episode, growing antisemitism ignites into pogroms that clearly evoke Krystalnacht.
* On ''Series/{{Revolution}}'' the Monroe Republic has shades of this, but Monroe is really just a dictatorial warlord and has no real ideology behind him. In season 2, the Patriots, TheRemnant of the old US Government, start taking over the Eastern Seaborn and are a much straighter example with their fanaticism and brainwashing camps. The protagonists are living in a small town in Texas when the Patriots arrive to 'save' the town from a savage tribe of raiders. They soon find out that the Patriots hired the raiders themselves to create a pretext for the presence of Patriot troops. Soon enough martial law is invoked.
* A 1968 made-for-TV movie, ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063589/ Shadow on the Land]]'', depicted a fascist dictatorship ruling a near-future, AlternateHistory USA and the resistance to that regime.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': "The City on the Edge of Forever" features the crew of the ''Enterprise'' being beamed to New York City during TheGreatDepression of the 1930s. Bones saves the life of Edith Keeler, which creates an alternate timeline: Keeler is a political pacifist whose activism prevented the U.S.A. from entering World War II, allowing Nazi Germany to conquer the world and develop nuclear weapons. Kirk realizes that in order to keep the world safe, [[SomeoneHasToDie Keeler's death in a car accident will ultimately be for the greater good of the free world]].
* The article's picture is from the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode where the crew ends up in an alternate past where, due to Lenin being assassinated by a time traveler prior to the Russian Revolution, Germany, with little opposition to the East, is winning the war and has already captured much of the Eastern Seaboard. While they are hinted at being pushed back by the Allies, a group of aliens are offering the Germans advanced weapons.

* An [[MadeForTVMovie after-school special]] called ''Film/TheWave1981'' (and its {{novelization}}) has this happen successfully in a HighSchool as part of a social experiment conducted by [[PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher a history teacher]]. It was remade in 2008 by the Germans as ''Film/TheWave2008''. Fun fact: the movie and book were BasedOnATrueStory.

-->'''Narrator:''' "The war seemed to unfold in the blink of an eye. I don't remember exactly when the forces from the West occupied my town...Before I knew it, everything changed. The language they taught us at school...Our friendly local sheriff "disappeared," and was replaced by foriegn {=MPs=} ."

-->'''Narrator:''' "The war seemed to unfold in the blink of an eye. I don't remember exactly when the forces from the West occupied my town...Before I knew it, everything changed. The language they taught us at school...Our friendly local scherrif "disappeared," and was replaced by foriegn MPs."