The Battle of Chicago (Movie)

From Turtledove

The Battle of Chicago was a 1965 American movie which (inaccurately) told the story of the prolonged battle between the United States Army and the Race's Conquest Fleet over the city of Chicago, Illinois in 1942-44. The movie's plot was light and uninteresting. However, it had two major points in its favor which allowed it to succeed in the box office: copious amounts of contemporary newsreel footage digitally dubbed into color, including a magnificent opening scene showing the Conquest Fleet entering into Earth orbit, which the producers bought from the Race; and the popular and sexy actors James Dean and Brigette Bardot in starring roles.

Jonathan Yeager and Karen Culpepper saw the movie in 1965 in a drive-in theater, and spent most of the time engaged in erotic activities.

Reuven Russie took Jane Archibald to the film on a date when it was released in Palestine later that year. That the Race allowed its release at all impressed them both. Although both had grown up in Race-occupied territory, each reacted very differently to the film. Russie saw it as just another shoot-em-up, with a war setting rather than a western one, and was more interested in Brigette Bardot, one of film's stars. Jane, on the other hand, savored the Race's defeat, and lamented that no films about the fighting in her native Australia had been made.