Cola Wars

(2019)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 13 votes

Genres: Documentary, History

Year: 2019

Runtime: 84 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Mark Herzog

Cast: Christopher Emerson, Harvey Yazijan, Bill Katz, Joel Stein, Rob Baskin, Thomas Oliver, Katie Bayne, Michael Beindorff, Patti Rueff, Craig Weatherup

Plot

Traces the long and ferocious rivalry between Coke and Pepsi, centered on the “New Coke” debacle of 1985. For almost a hundred years, Coke had been the undisputed leader in the multibillion dollar global soda industry–stodgy, predictable, but indisputably top dog–while Pepsi had been the upstart No. 2, forever poking at its big brother with cutting edge advertising. But in 1985, in a stranger-than-fiction twist, Coca-Cola’s executives took a step so daring that no one in either company could believe it: they changed the formula of the most popular beverage on the planet.