The.War.Game.(Peter.Watkins).[1965].DVDRip.720x544.DivX

The War Game (1965)

by Peter Watkins



Runtime: 46:23 min

Country: UK

Language: English

Colour: Black and White

Audio Mix: Mono

Video Codec: DivX 5.0

Video Resolution: 720 x 544

Video Framerate: 25 FPS

Video Bitrate: 1892 kbps VBR

Audio Codec: LAME 3.92

Audio Bitrate: 192 kbps CBR





From IMDB:



IMDB Rating: 8.5/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059894/




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. It was

intended as an hour-long program to air on BBC 1, but it was deemed

too intense and violent to broadcast. It went to theatrical

distribution as a feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on

location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching

realism.



Part interviews and quotations, part acting, this film simulates

the aftermath of a large-scale nuclear attack near a rural area of

England. It argues that citizens and Civil Defense authorities are

poorly prepared for this eventuality, and describes possible

physical, psychological and social damage in graphic detail.



Despite having been produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation

(BBC), the film was banned from television broadcast. The official

reason was for violence and depiction of human suffering, but others

hinted that it may have been because it went against the official

government line concerning survivability of nuclear attack. While the

ban forbade television broadcast, it did not forbid cinematic

distribution. Because of this loophole, the film was given wide

release in theatres, and won four major film awards.