Advantages: slice of history Disadvantages: very scary
...such controversy as Peter Watkins' The War Game, a drama documentary made for BBC TV in 1965 about a 'limited' nuclear attack on Kent, England. Blending fiction and fact to create a moving and startling vision of the personal as well as the public consequences of such an attack, Watkins exposes the inadequacy of the nation's Civil Defence programme and questions the philosophy of the nuclear deterrent. Conspicuously absent from TV screens until 1985, ... ...other peace movements.
*****
The Guardian 'One of British television's finest hours'
Empire
'Dynamic, disturbing, committed...from a revolutionary filmmaker'
Time Out I bought this film online a couple of years ago to satisfy my wives addiction to all things Atomic - having both been children in the early 80's we remember clearly how scared we were that the world could end at at moment all on the whim of an actor president and transexual PM.
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tilly77 15.04.2005
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Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
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