The War Game (1965): 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. (8.1)
Director: Peter Watkins
Writer: Peter Watkins
Stars: Michael Aspel and Peter Graham
The whole movie is a mock documentary. It is a docu-drama in the sense that it tells, in that typical English documentary style, the story of "this is what would happen if several small nuclear bombs were to be dropped in various places in England." At several points in the movie it points out that "this actually happened" either in Japan or at various WWII stages in Germany, so it isn't all fiction. Towards the end of the movie, it imagines, with the development of the bomb in several other countries, that by 1980 the scenarios would have already taken place. Well, it is 2012 and we are still here, so something good must have taken place (ie: disarmament talks) to prevent a nuclear war. But with India and Pakistan acquiring the bomb, Iran and North Korea attempting to develop it, and the break-up of the Soviet Union, things are at a much more precarious situation as far as the nuclear weapons are concerned. Yet, we as a society don't seem to be as much worried about the consequences as the mid 20th century populace was. This docu-drama is an eye opener. My Rating: 7.0
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