ASA 📺💻📹 The War Game (1965) Director; Peter Watkins, BBC Documentary

The War Game (1965) Synopsis 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. Rankings Position #29 Best Medium-Length Movies of all time Awards 1966: Oscar: Best Documentary 1966: BAFTA: Best Short Film