The War Game / Culloden ( After the Bomb / The Battle of Culloden )

The War Game / Culloden (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: After the Bomb / The Battle of Culloden
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
122 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1964 - 1965 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Peter Watkins

Written By:
Peter Watkins

Actors:
Michael Aspel ..... Commentator
Peter Graham ..... Commentator
Peter Watkins ..... Field Interviewer (uncredited)

Synopsis:

The War Game (1965): 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.
Culloden (1964):
A reconstruction of the Battle of Culloden, the last battle to take place on British soil, as if modern TV cameras were present.

The War Game (1965): Peter Watkins' The War Game was filmed in hand-held documentary fashion, the film speculates on the aftereffects of a nuclear war. Some of the images are almost impossible to look at; they truly illustrate the theory that, in the wake of such a holocaust, the living will envy the dead. The most heartwrenching scene is the simplest. Asked what he wants to be when he grows up, a sullen young boy, physically unhurt but with obviously deep emotional scarred, mutters 'I don't want to be nothin''. Filmed for BBC television, The War Game was rejected by that august concern as being too graphic. The 47-minute film was released to theatres, making it eligible for the 'best documentary' Academy Award.
Culloden (1964): Peter Watkins directed this mock-documentary examination of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, the final act in the attempted Jackobite Rebellion and among the first major steps in Great Britain's near-genocide of the original Highland clans of Scotland. Filmed as if a modern-day television news crew was on hand to cover the battle, and using a team of non-professional actors, Culloden includes on-the-spot interviews with the participants, reveals the meager circumstances of the Scot soldiers and the questionable competence of Charles Edward Stuart (aka Bonnie Prince Charlie), and reenacts the fearsome brutality of the British troops, who, after defeating the Scots, massacred what was left of their armies. A startling film, which, along with painting a vivid portrait of the horrors of war, explores the economic and class issues behind the conflict, Culloden also draws subtle parallels between the Jacobite Rebellion and Europe's role in the then-ongoing Vietnam conflict. Culloden was Watkins' first project for the BBC; his next would be the highly controversial The War Game.

The War Game (1965)
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.
Culloden (1964)
Culloden is a 1964 docudrama written and directed by Peter Watkins for BBC TV. It portrays the 1746 Battle of Culloden that resulted in the British Army's destruction of the Scottish Jacobite rising of 1745 and, in the words of the narrator, 'tore apart forever the clan system of the Scottish Highlands'.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 19 November, 2008.

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