| Tango01 | 16 Aug 2018 9:35 p.m. PST |
… Documentary "It's a little after 2:00 p.m. in Kent — an English county east of London — and the doctor is making an emergency visit. He's escorted by two Civil Defense volunteers, a man and a woman. He checks in on his patient and goes back to his car. An air raid siren squeals. It's 1965. China has invaded South Vietnam and the Soviet Union has sealed off East Berlin. Britain is in a state of emergency. The doctor and the Civil Defense workers rush into the house. The confused family helps the authorities topple furniture to create makeshift shields against the blast. "This family couldn't afford to build themselves a refuge," a dry, British, BBC style narrator explains. "This could be the way the last two minutes of peace in Britain would look."…"
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| Cornelius | 17 Aug 2018 1:30 a.m. PST |
Saw it at school (on a cinema screen) in 1977 as a 15 year old. Very powerful but maybe insufficiently cynical about how people would behave. |
Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 17 Aug 2018 2:18 a.m. PST |
My college had a little Peter Watkins film festival when I was a student in the late 1970s. He introduced The War Game, and took questions after, but I at least was too stunned to ask any. Watkins also introduced his 1975 film The Trap, set in an underground nuclear facility in Sweden. At some point, maybe during that same weekend, but maybe separately, they showed Edvard Munch (1973). Watkins has done a dozen or more movies, but these are the only ones I've seen. They are all very good. |
| Tango01 | 17 Aug 2018 11:14 a.m. PST |
So… not bad memories… (smile) Amicalement
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| 23rdFusilier | 17 Aug 2018 11:44 a.m. PST |
Yes, very bad memories. Saw this in college and scared the bejesus out of me for a very long time. |
| Bob the Temple Builder | 17 Aug 2018 12:51 p.m. PST |
It has recently been available on BBC iPlayer. I saw it at school, again at college, and recently on iPlayer. It is scary because it is based on official predictions of what was going to happen. |
| deephorse | 17 Aug 2018 3:36 p.m. PST |
Seen it. Don't know what all the fuss is about. What do people expect the result of nuclear war to look like? |
| Old Wolfman | 18 Aug 2018 1:54 p.m. PST |
I had a book version of the film somewhere. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 20 Aug 2018 1:42 a.m. PST |
I have plenty of bad memories, Tango, but as deephorse points out, that's to be expected of a close look at nuclear war. |
| Virginia Tory | 21 Aug 2018 9:55 a.m. PST |
I saw both this one and his Culloden effort--sort of a "You are There" approach. Both were a bit similar, I thought. The attempt to compare WW3 to the WW2 bombing campaign was a bit hamfisted, IMO. But the scene when the sirens go off….whew. Very well done. |
| crazycaptain | 24 Sep 2018 11:49 p.m. PST |
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