Screening of The War Game

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has organised a screening of the 1965 BBC film, The War Game, where we will be joined by Michael Bradsell, who edited the film in 1965, for a post-screening discussion.

The film depicts the aftermath of a nuclear weapon detonation near London and the BFI describes the film as 'a controversial and harrowing film which, after the BBC had reluctantly allowed a cinema release, garnered huge critical praise internationally, winning a number of prizes, including an Academy Award.'

However, 'the nuclear war drama was withheld by the BBC - possibly as a result of political pressure - and remained unshown for nearly twenty years, finally being transmitted on 31st July 1985.'

2015 is the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, the 50th anniversary of the filming of The War Game and now 30 years since it was first screened on the BBC.