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The War Game

  • TV Movie
  • 1966
  • 48m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
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The War Game (1966)
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A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.

  • Director
    • Peter Watkins
  • Writer
    • Peter Watkins
  • Stars
    • Michael Aspel
    • Peter Graham
    • Dave Baldwin
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    8.0/10
    7K
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    • Director
      • Peter Watkins
    • Writer
      • Peter Watkins
    • Stars
      • Michael Aspel
      • Peter Graham
      • Dave Baldwin
    • 70User reviews
    • 58Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 5 wins total

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    Michael Aspel
    • Commentator
    Peter Graham
    • Commentator
    Dave Baldwin
    • Schoolmaster
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Kathy Staff
    Kathy Staff
    • Interviewee
    • (uncredited)
    Peter Watkins
    • Documentist
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Peter Watkins
    • Writer
      • Peter Watkins
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      After it won an Oscar for Documentary Feature, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changed the eligibility rules for the category.
    • Goofs
      Light can be seen reflecting off a woman's "broken" teeth.
    • Quotes

      Scientist: Technically and intellectually, we are living in an atomic age. Emotionally, we are still living in the Stone Age. The Aztecs on their feast days would sacrifice 20,000 men to their gods in the belief that this would keep the universe on its proper course. We feel superior to them.

    • Alternate versions
      Some prints replace the stills of Lyndon B. Johnson and Alexey Kosygin with stills of the White House and the Red Square
    • Connections
      Featured in Peter Watkins Reflects on 'The War Game' and the Media (1983)
    • Soundtracks
      Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night, Holy Night)
      (uncredited)

      Music by Franz Xaver Gruber

      Lyrics by Joseph Mohr

      Played on phonograph at Dover refugee compound

    User reviews70

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    9/10
    for it's time it was intense
    The War Game........ I saw this movie in a limited engagement in Toronto at an underground theater when it was first shown here. For the time the film was very " in your face " and I recall people coming from the small theater with shocked looks on their faces, one couple I recall the man was being sick at the curb, others seemed to have just blank stares on their faces.

    It was a very impacting movie, very much ahead of its time and no where could have Hollywood or any other film makers here or in the US could have come close to making. It was an very intense for the subject and it was the ending that did it to everyone there who saw it. For 46 minutes of black & white film it had impact that I have not seen since in any of the much vaunted films over the last 40 odd years or so. If you do get a chance to see it do so, and try to see it in the temper of the times that it was produced in..........Enjoy

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 1, 1967 (Sweden)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Kriegsspiel
    • Filming locations
      • Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
    • Production company
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      48 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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