Doctor Who: “The War Games in Color” airs on BBC Four on 23rd December with DVD/Blu-ray and digital availability to follow.

As the first modern “war game,” Kriegsspiel helped military theorists make explicit the conditions of battle and gain new perspectives on war. To this day, all major militaries still use some ...

Peter Watkins' The War Game has become an artifact of its society as well as a film: the cause celebre about nuclear war created by this movie has crystallized certain contemporary problems.