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The War Game (1965)

 -  Drama | Sci-Fi | War  -  7 February 1967 (USA)
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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 ... See full summary »

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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 feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching realism. Written by io <orb@europa.com>

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BBC TV's film about a nuclear attack on Britain directed by Peter Watkins

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After it had won an Oscar for Documentary Feature, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changed their rules regarding eligibility for this category. See more »

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Interviewer: Carbon-14 is among the most dangerous elements of radioactive fallout. Do you know what it does to the human body?
Interviewee #1: Ooh... No, I'm sorry, I haven't heard of it.
Interviewee #2: Afraid I don't know much about atomic... radiation at all.
Interviewee #3: No, I don't.
Interviewee #4: No, I'm sorry, I don't know.
Commentator: In 1959 a Home Office manual wrote: "Public education in the matters of radioactivity will be progressive during the next few years"
Interviewer: Do you know what strontium-90 is and what it does?
Interviewee #5: Erm... No. No, I'm afraid I don't.
Interviewee #2: No, I don't.
Interviewee #6: I've.....
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Still hard hitting
25 June 2003 | by (England) – See all my reviews

...saw THE WAR GAME last year and I really enjoyed it... Just caught it on DVD and I can't help but wonder if scenes were cut out of the DVD as I remembered it to be much much longer!?!?

Anyway I digress

I brilliant film made by the BBC which was banned for many years because of the fact it was too real... In most cases it's re-released because films from the 60's tend to date somewhat compared to modern cinema standards. But the War Game is still as hard hitting as it was the day the BBC decided they couldn't put it on television.

Some truely horrible scenes involving the collapse of the nation when bombed by the enemy

For what it set out to do.

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