2. America's Economic Difficulties & China's Rise To Power - Americathon
One of the most underrated films of the 1970s, Americathon was a reflexive satire that feature America in a rare instance of self-aware mockery, though the film's jokes would eventually start to become reality in the decades that followed. To date, the following of the film's overblown predictions have actually happened: China has embraced capitalism and become a superpower, Nike has become a gigantic, worldwide company, the USSR has collapsed, US' oil production wavered, reality TV is a thing, and the President of the United States is the son of a previous President, and more to the point, is completely terrible at his job. It's astounding that given how scarily well the film predicted the world's future political machinations, it hasn't seen the sort of critical re-appreciation that it so sorely deserves. Sure, the film's far from perfect, but it offers up some uncomfortably close stabs in the dark at what the future holds.