The War Game
BBC TV's film about a nuclear attack on Britain
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- War
- TV Movie
Overview
A hypothetical Chinese invasion of South Vietnam triggers a new world war between East and West. In Rochester, Kent, the anticipation of a nuclear attack leads to mass evacuations. When a stray missile explodes, the ensuing firestorm blinds all those who see it. It's not long before the fabric of society is ripped apart from radiation poisoning, a lack of infrastructure and rioting for food and other necessities.
Keywords
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- survival
- war
- struggle for survival
- powerful
- black and white
- nuclear weapons
- disturbed
- nuclear missile
- nuclear war
- cold war
- found footage
- fake documentary
- nuclear bomb
- state of emergency
- cold war era
- firestorm
- nuclear radiation
- riot
- docufiction
- pseudo-documentary
- nuclear holocaust
- docudrama
- mondo
- docu-fiction
- survivors
- tactical nuclear warfare
- nuclear deterrent policy
- nuclear holocaust fiction
- survival film
- fallout shelters
- civil defence
- mondo film
- voice-over
- panic buying
- nuclear strikes
- hunger riots
- armed police
- v bombers
- countervalue
- vulcan mk ii
- nuclear war aftermath
- deterrence theory
- hypothetical
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 13, 1966
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC
- Director
- Peter Watkins
- Writer
- Peter Watkins
- Producer
- Peter Watkins
- Cinematography
- Peter Bartlett
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0059894