Awards and Recognition
The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, The War Game was placed 27th. The War Game was also voted 74th in Channel Four's 100 Greatest Scary Moments.
A portion of dialogue from this film - describing the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb - was used by the English Hardcore Punk band Discharge on their 1982 album 'Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing' as an intro to the song 'The Possibility Of Lifes Destruction'. The line "the sound of an enormous door, slamming in the depths of Hell" was also used as the basis for the lyrics of the song.
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