Tag: The War Game (1965)

Nuclear Madness, Part 1: When the Wind Blows (1986), Threads (1984), and The War Game (1965)

Nuclear Madness, Part 1: When the Wind Blows (1986), Threads (1984), and The War Game (1965)

February 28, 2015 | By

In Part 1 of this series on anti-nuclear dramas, three differing levels of British Bleakism: Raymond Briggs’ When the Wind Blows (1986) on Blu from Twilight Time, Mick Jackson’s Threads (1986), and Peter Watkins’ The War Game (1965).

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DVD: The War Game (1965) / Culloden (1964)

DVD: The War Game (1965) / Culloden (1964)

February 28, 2015 | By

Banned by the BBC for over 20 years, The War Game (1965) is an Oscar-winning, short documentary that remains one of the most potent anti-war, anti-nuclear films ever made, but to understand why Peter Watkins’ film was rejected and suppressed, one has to flip back and do a tally of all the horrible things that had occurred within a few years prior to its making: the erection of the Berlin Wall…

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