The War Game
- 1966
- 48m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
7.5K
YOUR RATING
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 5 wins total
Dave Baldwin
- Schoolmaster
- (uncredited)
- …
Kathy Staff
- Interviewee
- (uncredited)
Peter Watkins
- Documentist
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAfter it won an Oscar for Documentary Feature, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changed the eligibility rules for the category.
- GoofsLight can be seen reflecting off a woman's "broken" teeth.
- Quotes
Scientist: Technically and intellectually, we are living in an atomic age. Emotionally, we are still living in the Stone Age. The Aztecs on their feast days would sacrifice 20,000 men to their gods in the belief that this would keep the universe on its proper course. We feel superior to them.
- Alternate versionsSome prints replace the stills of Lyndon B. Johnson and Alexey Kosygin with stills of the White House and the Red Square
- ConnectionsFeatured in Peter Watkins Reflects on 'The War Game' and the Media (1983)
- SoundtracksStille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night, Holy Night)
(uncredited)
Music by Franz Xaver Gruber
Lyrics by Joseph Mohr
Played on phonograph at Dover refugee compound
Featured review
The War Game........ I saw this movie in a limited engagement in Toronto at an underground theater when it was first shown here. For the time the film was very " in your face " and I recall people coming from the small theater with shocked looks on their faces, one couple I recall the man was being sick at the curb, others seemed to have just blank stares on their faces.
It was a very impacting movie, very much ahead of its time and no where could have Hollywood or any other film makers here or in the US could have come close to making. It was an very intense for the subject and it was the ending that did it to everyone there who saw it. For 46 minutes of black & white film it had impact that I have not seen since in any of the much vaunted films over the last 40 odd years or so. If you do get a chance to see it do so, and try to see it in the temper of the times that it was produced in..........Enjoy
inquist4
It was a very impacting movie, very much ahead of its time and no where could have Hollywood or any other film makers here or in the US could have come close to making. It was an very intense for the subject and it was the ending that did it to everyone there who saw it. For 46 minutes of black & white film it had impact that I have not seen since in any of the much vaunted films over the last 40 odd years or so. If you do get a chance to see it do so, and try to see it in the temper of the times that it was produced in..........Enjoy
inquist4
Details
- Runtime48 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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