The War Game (1965)
The War Game (1965)
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 544 | XviD @ 1887 Kbps | English MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 46 min | 728 Mb
Genre: Art-house, Sci-fi, War
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 544 | XviD @ 1887 Kbps | English MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 46 min | 728 Mb
Genre: Art-house, Sci-fi, War
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.
IMDB - Won 1 Oscar + Another 4 wins
The War Game is one of the most amazing films I have ever seen. It's a pseudo-documentary made in 1965, about the possible effects of a nuclear attack on Great Britain. The director's premise is that Britain (and indeed the world) is hopelessly unprepared for such a thing. Some classic scenes: befuddled Brits receiving civil defence booklets. Blank stares greeting the interviewer when he asks Brits on the street about radioactive fallout. The footage is all made to look horribly real. Some of it looks a little hokey - the use of a shaky camera to simulate a desperate ground battle stands out - but there are also very convincing scenes of firestorms raging out of control, sucking the oxygen out of the air for blocks around. Also, incredible scenes of radiation burn victims, food riots, police polishing off the near dead, etc… The killer part is at the end - an interview with some young blast victims will haunt you for a long time.
"Do you know what Strontium-90 is, and what it does to the human body???"IMDB Reviewer
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The War Game (1965)
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