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What it's about
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.
Cast and crew
- Director
- Peter Watkins
- Writer
- Peter Watkins
- Starring
- Dick Graham, Michael Aspel, Dave Baldwin
Details
- Release date
- Nov 1, 1967
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins total
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