THE WAR GAME

In 1965, filmmaker Peter Watkins (PRIVILEGE, PUNISHMENT PARK) recruited 350 amateur actors, utilized direct quotes from civil defense manuals and employed newsreel-like recreations to craft a BBC documentary drama that depicted a nuclear attack on Great Britain. The network condemned the finished film as 'too horrifying' and refused to broadcast it. Watkins' masterpiece subsequently received a special award at the 1966 Venice Film Festival and won the 1967 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature. The BBC would not air his 'chillingly different, enduringly brilliant' (The Guardian) classic until three decades later. 'What may be the most important film ever made' (The Observer) is now scanned in 4K from the original 16mm A/B rolls for the first time ever, with more than 5½ of all-new 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