Keeping the Old Game Alive

198356 min 48 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Douglas Kiefer

Production: Douglas KieferWilliam BrindJohn KramerBarrie Howells

Script: Gwynne DyerBarbara Sears

Along the vigilantly patrolled line separating East and West Germany lie half the world's conventional (non-nuclear) armed forces--the Warsaw Pact forces to the east, the NATO Alliance to the west. It is here in Europe that military experts predict the next major world war will begin, initially with conventional weapons. In Keeping the Old Game Alive, top military leaders from both NATO and Warsaw Pact countries describe how any future superpower confrontation might evolve. The frightening outcome of one recent NATO war exercise was rapid escalation to all-out nuclear war once supplies of conventional weaponry were exhausted. Part five of the seven-part series War, hosted by Gwynne Dyer, examining the nature, evolution and consequences of modern warfare.

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  • Foreign Countries > Germany
  • War, Conflict and Peace > Military AlliancesNuclear Age and the Cold War

Credits


director
Douglas Kiefer
camera
Douglas Kiefer
producer
Douglas Kiefer
William Brind
John Kramer
executive producer
Barrie Howells
script
Gwynne Dyer
Barbara Sears
sound
Hans Oomes
Bev Davidson
editing
Joan Henson
Richard Todd
sound editing
Bernard Bordeleau
re-recording
Jean-Pierre Joutel
Adrian Croll
animation
Nancy Crossgrove
music
Larry Crosley
host
Gwynne Dyer