The brilliant opening credit sequence of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen is now online. Watch the video and see bonus viral videos of the movie based on the visionary graphic novel of the same title by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

The six minute Watchmen opening credits are set to the Bob Dylan signature song ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ as the scenes unfold revealing the history of the Minutemen from 1939 to 1985 when costumed superheros, who were previously heralded members of society, are now subject to scorn and rejection. yU+Co created the Watchmen opening credits.

Both the graphic novel and the movie Watchmen are set in an alternate 1985 timeline in which Richard Nixon is the U.S. President and there are growing tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. as represented by the ‘Doomsday Clock’ set permanently at five minutes to midnight. Costumed superheros had been part of everyday life and suddenly and mysteriously one of them is murdered and his colleague, the masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to find the killer and finds instead a massive plot that not only intends to discredit superheros but that threatened all of humanity.

The movie stars Patrick Wilson, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, and Matthew Good and is in theaters now. Here is a roundup of Watchmen reviews

Watchmen Opening Credits Video has been removed at the request of the copyright holder. However, you may be able to find an up-to-date link to the video here:

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Here is the last Watchmen featurette, with an interview with director Zack Snyder

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Here is a bonus video, the latest video from the The New Frontiersman viral Web site — ‘World In Focus: 6 Minutes to Midnight’ — which is a a faux late night UK TV show, with an October 1985 air date. Presenter Jeremy Miller interviews Pulitzer prize winning photo-journalist Alain Guillon and author Hal Eisner on the growing geopolitical crisis of the day. There are a few more videos in this series on the New Frontiersman YouTube channel, as the Watchmen viral video campaign continues.

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Via /Film: Watchmen Videos: Opening Credits, Societal Parallels, World In Focus and Anatomy of a Scene (visit to see all of the videos)

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Watchmen Opening Credits Online (Video)