Directed by: Peter Watkins Written by: Peter Watkins
Told in the style of a news report, The War Game garnered incredible amounts of controversy well before it aired — and it didn’t end up seeing the light of day on the BBC until 20 years after it was made. It’s a highly realistic (and thus, incredibly unsettling) look at a Soviet nuclear attack on Britain. Think of it as War of the Worlds but with an actual looming threat instead of aliens.
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