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A film about nuclear war “too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting”

By Rebecca Fons | July 8, 2026

Poster from “The War Game.” Via BBC.

A film about nuclear war “too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting”

By Rebecca Fons | July 8, 2026

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Bradshaw, P. 2025. “Peter Watkins: an English film-making revolutionary from a tradition of uncompromising radicalism.” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/03/peter-watkins-film-making-revolutionary-war-game-culloden-punishment-park

The National Archives. 1965. “BBC film censored?” Sixties Britain, transcript of Parliamentary question asked in the House of Commons by William Hamilton MP to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. December 2. The National Archives. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/sixties-britain/bbc-film-censored/

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