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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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Subject categories
- 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