The War Game (1966)
War/Drama/Short · 0h 48m · 4/13/1966
Description
The War Game is a fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city. Although it won an Oscar for Best Documentary, it is fiction. It was intended as an hour-long program to air on BBC 1, but it was deemed too intense and violent to broadcast. It went to theatrical distribution as a feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching realism.
Michael Aspel
Commentator
Peter Graham
Commentator
Kathy Staff
Interviewee (uncredited)
Peter Watkins
Documentist (uncredited)Peter Watkins
DirectorPeter Watkins
WriterPeter Watkins
Producer
Peter Bartlett
Cinematograpy
Peter Suschitzky
CinematograpyMichael Bradsell
Editor
Threads
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