Truth Game, The

Synopsis: Looks at worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race, beginning with the dropping of two American atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, through the build-up of nuclear arms by Russia and America and the siting of the US nuclear bases in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, to NATO’s recent ‘limited’ nuclear and chemical war exercise in Germany. Pilger’s purpose is to study the process by which ‘a new kind of propaganda’ has evolved which ‘by using reassuring, even soothing language - language which allowed both the politicians and us to distance ourselves from the horror of nuclear war...created acceptable images of war and the illusion that we could live securely with nuclear weapons’. Many experts give their views, including Paul Warnke, who thinks arms reduction is feasible.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 90 min. Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1983
Availability: Hire
Uses: Study material on propaganda.*
Subjects: History; Politics & government
Keywords: nuclear weapons; propaganda

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