The War Game (1965)

8.4	Listal rating
8.3	IMDB rating

Release date : 7 February 1967

Riot (1), Apocalypse (1), Controversial (1), Cautionary Tale (1), Cult Favorite (1), Nuclear Weapons (1), Shelter (1), Survivor (1), Radiation (1), Radioactive (1), End Of The World (1), Post Nuclear War (1), Futuristic (1), Pessimism (1), Disaster (1), Ww3 (1), Britain (1), Nuclear Attack (1), Nuclear War (1), Semi Documentary (1)

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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 f ... (more)

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Peter Watkins

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