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The War Game 2-Disc Set 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray presents Peter Watkins’ landmark nuclear docudrama, now restored in 4K with extensive special features.
Blending documentary realism with dramatized reconstruction, the film depicts the devastating consequences of a nuclear attack on Great Britain. Using non-professional actors, direct references to civil defense materials, and a newsreel style, Watkins creates a harrowing and unflinching portrayal of societal collapse.
Originally deemed too disturbing for broadcast, The War Game went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and remains one of the most powerful anti-nuclear films ever made.
directed by: Peter Watkins
starring: Dick Graham, Michael Aspel, Kathy Staff, Dave Baldwin
1966 / 48 min / 1.33:1 / English
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4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
• Audio Commentary With Film Critic Kim Newman And Filmmaker Sean Hogan
• Introduction By Filmmaker Alex Cox
• Conflict By Design – Interview With Anne Davey Orr, Production Designer On CULLODEN And THE WAR GAME
• Who Banned THE WAR GAME? – An Interview With Peter Watkins Historian John Cook
• Games Of Fact And Fiction – Video Essay By Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas And Filmmaker Stephen Broomer
• THE WAR GAME At Cine City – Featurette By Journalist Eric Veillette
• Nuclear Britain – Interview With Julie McDowall, Author Of Attack Warning Red! How Britain Prepared For Nuclear War
• Archival Interview With Editor Michael Bradsell
• Peter Watkins Reflects On THE WAR GAME And The Media – 1983 Interview From The Australian Film Television And Radio School (AFTRS)
• Introduction To THE WAR GAME In Sheffield By Visions Producer John Ellis
• THE WAR GAME In Sheffield – Peter Watkins Recruits For A Proposed WAR GAME Remake In Unused Footage For The UK TV Show Visions
• Trailer
• THE DIARY OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER – Short Film By Peter Watkins
• THE FORGOTTEN FACES – Short Film By Peter Watkins