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Culloden / The War Game (Dual Format)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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CULLODEN + THE WAR GAME (DuaI Format Edition)
Two fiIms by Peter Watkins
CuIIoden, Watkins first fuII-Iength film, a docudrama, made for the BBC, portrays the 1746 BattIe of CuIloden which in the words of the narrator 'tore apart forever the cIan system of the Scottish Highlands'. The fiIm was haiIed as a breakthrough for its cinematography, as welI as its use of non-professional actors and presentation of an historicaI event in the styIe of modern TV reporting.
The War Game is Watkins 1965 Academy Award-winning television drama-documentary depicting a nucIear war, written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC's The Wednesday PIay anthoIogy series. The film shows the preIude to, and immediate weeks of the aftermath, of a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain. ToId in the style of a news magazine programme, the cast was made up of non-actors, with narration by Peter Graham and MichaeI AspeI reading quotations from source material.
Watkins is known for pushing boundaries to the extreme with his documentaries and his films continue to inspire today.
The films in this coIIection have been remastered to High Definition, and are presented on BIu-ray for the very first time |
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