If superheroes were real, they could have ended the Vietnam war. Such is the case in Alan Moore & David Gibbons’ Watchmen, which takes a serious look at costumed crimefighters (including their sex lives). Moore’s alternate reality is being brought to the screen in March with equal parts faithfulness and abbreviation by Zac Snyder. The filmmakers have really gone the extra mile to capture the alternate history of the Watchmen world with this unbelievably cool “archival” footage:

More alternate-reality artifacts can be found at The New Frontiersman website.