Kriegsspiel (TV Movie 1966)

Kriegsspiel: Directed by Peter Watkins. With Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff. A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.

“I saw The War Game thanks to my local branch of CND in 1979 when they showed it in a hall in our town. My mum was vehemently anti-communist so I had to sneak out to see it. The local paper kicked up at 14-year olds being encouraged to see an u0026#39;Xu0026#39; film. Was it worth the fuss? Yes, without a doubt. I had already seen Watkinu0026#39;s definitive u0026#39;Cullodenu0026#39; earlier that year and was bowled over by the documentary style applied to a drama, but The War Game surpassed even that. I will never forget the scenes of the helmeted English bobbies shooting people in the head to put them out of their misery, or the bucket full of wedding rings or most of all, the line of kids being asked what they wanted to be when they grew up and the replies of u0026#39;nuffink.u0026#39;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor me, that summed up the futility of war, nuclear or otherwise.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026#39;Threadsu0026#39; is good, but u0026#39;The War Gameu0026#39; is still the best portrayal of a nuclear attack on Britain ever made. It should be shown more often.”