This article examines the films WARGAMES (USA 1983), KRIEG UND FRIEDEN (BRD 1982), as well as DER DRITTE WELTKRIEG (BRD 1998) and identifies them as documents of the final phase of the Cold War. They review
situations of exception that negotiate the question of sovereign actions in a lifethreatening crisis and narrate possible futures as well as counter-factual history. The films are concerned with fictional but possible stories that gain and unfold their momentum from game theory, simulation, and the power of historical imagination

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