This BBC TV Movie About Nuclear War Was Too Horrifying for Broadcast
The Big Picture Public broadcasting requires a number of safeguards in order to prevent unsettling its potentially unknowing viewers, a fact that was tested when British director Peter Watkins’ 1966 Oscar-winning pseudo-documentary The War Game was pulled from its air slot by the BBC for being too horrifying, and subsequently had to be shown in theaters instead.
The film begins by enacting a mass evacuation of the UK, detailing the priority placed on women and children to enforce the notion that the future must be preserved at all costs.
Watkins juxtaposes these scenes with snippets of the staged destruction of the UK home front. Mothers and fathers watch their children burn alive as the horrors of war meet the ignorance of its people in a sequence of events so tragic it’s nigh-comical. An Anglican Bishop will discuss his belief in a “necessary” and “just war,” only to cut to the pandemonium of several firefighters attempting to rescue a family from burning alive in their car.
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