Peter Watkins' The War Game, which was filmed in handheld documentary fashion, speculates on the aftereffects of a nuclear war. Some of the images are almost impossible to look at; they truly illustrate the theory that, in the wake of such a holocaust, the living will envy the dead. The most heartwrenching scene is the simplest... Read more
| Starring | Michael Aspel, Peter Graham |
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| Director | Peter Watkins |
| Genres | Drama |
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worth watching but.....
An interesting, well made, and scary exploration of the likely effects of a nuclear strike on Britain during the cold war.
Whilst the film provides a... read more »
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terrifying truth
I can understand why `aunty` refused to show it at the time it still disturbs me now fifty odd years later.Peter Watkins is a master film maker and there is no ... read more »
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Excellent at the time
I remember seeing this as a student at paddington technical college in 1967. It was very believable then and very graphic. The times we lived in then made us ... read more »
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The War Game - My Review
Its hard to fathom a time when people really believed that a few sandbags and a door propped against a wall constituted some sort of protection against an ... read more »
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Customer Review
I think seeing 'The War Game' was a rite of passage for people like me, forties, grew up expecting nuclear war. I saw mine at a village hall CND meeting... read more »
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Best of the bunch
The War Game is much better than the vacuous 'The Day After' and 'Threads', and I could still remember many scenes from watching the film's ... read more »
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Should It Have Been Shown?
This is horrifying stuff, but I can't help but think that not airing it originally was not the right decision. Time has surely proved that it was, in fact, ... read more »
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Holy Nuclear Holocaust Batman!
I think it is fair to say that if I was a sixties family man, I would have packed the wife and kids off to Safeville, Arizona after watching this.
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Very interesting
This is a very interesting piece of 60's documentary, made just 20 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of course.
I enjoyed the contrast between ... read more »
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Worth checking out if you studying this sort of thing.
If you do film studies, politics or whatever that is the do with the theme of this film then it's worth checking out. I checked it out because i was blown ... read more »
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worth watching but.....
An interesting, well made, and scary exploration of the likely effects of a nuclear strike on Britain during the cold war.
Whilst the film provides a... read more »
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