The War Game

An excellent film and a perfect choice to star in a double bill with Doctor Strangelove. This is the most powerful documentary I have seen. It is a dramatised documentary of a nuclear attack on Britain. It is a subject that could revolt anyone but so often films depicting this sort of thing leave no after-effects on the audience at all. But don't expect to see this film and walk out feeling that nuclear warships in our harbours is a non-issue.

Perhaps more than anything else the secret of this film's success lies in its style of extreme understatement. You have to see it to see what I mean.