Synopsis:

Paradoxically the parent of the 'what if...?' dramatised documentaries currently enjoying a resurgance on television, and still shockingly poignant today, The War Game imagines the effects of a nuclear strike on an unprepared Britain.

Using non-professional actors and documentary techniques such as voicover, interview and actuality footage (complete with handheld camera), the film creates a scenario of chaos and destruction so plausible that it was banned by the BBC at the time, and not broadcast for another twenty years. It's since come to be regarded as a classic of the genre.