'One of British television?s finest hours' Empire
Few films have caused such controversy as Peter Watkins? The War Game, a drama documentary made for BBC TV in 1965 about a ?limited? nuclear attack on Kent, England. Blending fiction and fact to create a moving and startling vision of the personal as well as the public consequences of such an attack, Watkins exposes the inadequacy of the nation?s Civil Defence programme and questions the philosophy of the nuclear deterrent. Conspicuously absent from TV screens until 1985, it was mainly through cinema release in 1966 ? and its Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1967 ? that it gained a loyal and vociferous following, providing a sharp focus for CND and other peace movements.
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This is my first ever new topic post so please be gentle...... This is one of the most amazing and scary documentaries I have ever seen, predating the uk's own "Threads" by a couple of decades. Like "threads" the message of this film is as blunt as Jamie Lee Curtis's knitting needles are not, and it is unflinching in its detail of the death and injuries at the time of the attack, as well as the after effects on individuals and society as a whole. The acting is, in my opinion, incredible, and, excepting one scene involving small children near the end of the film, its hard to believe it is only a docudrama and not real peoples suffering on the screen. Please download this fantastic film and enjoy a large dose of what sadly could still be reality, almost 40 years on............
