The War Game: Still too real to broadcast?

The War Game: Still too real to broadcast?

As we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film the BBC suppressed 20 years later is more relevant than ever ~ Bleart Thaqi ~ Sixty years have passed since Peter Watkins completed The War Game, a film so stark and unflinching in its depiction of nuclear catastrophe that the BBC, who had commissioned it, chose to suppress it as “too horrifying”. The film simulates a nuclear attack on Britain, with a flashpoint in Berlin escalating into global war. …