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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

Credits

Director
David Munro
Contributor
John Pilger

Distribution Formats

Type
Film
Format
16mm

Production Company

Name

Central Independent Television

Notes
use Carlton UK Television

Distributor

Name

Concord Media

Email
sales@concordmedia.org.uk
Web
http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
Phone
01473 726 012
Address
Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG
Notes
A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.

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