The WAR GAME

The WAR GAME
   Made-for-tv film (1965). BBC/Pathe Contemporary. Prod/dir/written Peter WATKINS. Narrators Michael Aspel, Dick Graham. 50 mins, cut to 47 mins. B/w.
   This pseudo-documentary about a nuclear attack on England and its aftermath in a small town in Kent was refused a showing by BBC TV, though made for them, on the grounds that it was too realistic and might disturb audiences - as it was designed to do. Since then it has had a wide theatrical release and won an Oscar. Though clumsily made, it is full of shattering images: the glare and concussion of the bomb; the raging firestorms; the hideously disfigured casualties; torment and slow death from radiation poisoning; mass cremations; buckets of wedding rings gathered from the dead; and execution squads, composed of uniformed constables, shooting looters. Its first UK tv showing was in 1985.
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   See also: CINEMA.

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