Amerika: (Basil Poledouris) Extremely controversial for its time, it is difficult to look back upon Amerika and imagine that a considerable portion of the American public viewed the television series as one of realistic possibilities.
Rather, the point of the series was to concentrate on the average American's reaction to the post-war occupation a full ten years after the initial invasion.
Thus, along with the noted cinematography of the series, one of Poledouris' objectives was to provide a score that would maintain a consistency between the chapters of the series.
Tom Shales of The Washington Post wrote in December 1996 that Amerika "Could be the hottest political potato in the history of television." It was produced by ABC Circle Films, and written and directed by Donald Wrye, who was also executive producer.
This series depicted life as imagined in the United States in the late 1990s, ten years after the Soviet Union took control of America employing a Russian controlled UN peace-keeping force.
Some have contended that Amerika was produced to provide a television counter to the controversial ABC movie The Day After, which depicted nuclear holocaust between the U.S. and Russia in 1983.
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