Date:

Friday 29 February

Venue:

Tyneside Cinema

Time:

22:00 - 22:30

Cost:

£5 / £6

In this double-bill, social dystopias are explored through the medium of news broadcasts. Introduced by Ben Dickenson

The War Game BBC, 1965 (aired 1985), 50min
The War Game, written and directed by Peter Watkins, depicts the effects of a Soviet nuclear attack on Britain. Though it won an Academy Award for best documentary feature in 1966, it wasn't until 1985 that the BBC finally aired the programme, after having declared "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting". The War Game quickly became a cause célèbre for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Death of a President - 90 mins, 2006.
Join us to explore the hypothetical assassination of George W. Bush. Death of a President was credited by the International Critics Prize Jury at Toronto Film Festival for "the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth."

Do you want to see your favourite TV show on the big screen?
Vote online at avfestival.co.uk/toptv and see if it makes the AV Festival's Alternative Top TV Gala on Friday 7 March.