In 1966, the BBC produced The war game, A documentary about the effects of an atomic bombing on the English town of Rochester: the chaos of the forced evacuation, the repression by the authorities, the struggle of the survivors to adapt to the post-apocalyptic world... It was all fake, but filmed with chilling realism and, at its core, a scathing critique of scathing criticism. The following year, the film won the Oscar for Best Documentary, but the BBC didn't dare broadcast it. The war game for twenty years. Peter Watkins, the director of that masterpiece of anti-war cinema and one of the fathers of the mockumentary, has died at the age of 90, according to reports. British Film Institute