War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them

Running time: 110 mins

Were it not for the actions of one Polish Colonel, we might all be living in the wreckage of a nuclear war.

In the 1970s, the Warsaw Pact armies under USSR control occupied Poland and most of central Europe. Colonel Ryszard Kukliński, as strategist with the Polish army, was not only privy to the most secret plans, he helped draw up several of them. What he learned of Russia?s plans and what they implied for Poland ? and the world ? brought him to the realization that something must be done, no matter what the personal cost or danger.

Using brilliant filmic devices, archival footage and live interviews with members of the highest echelons from both sides, this real-life scenario ? out of Tom Clancy but with the subtleties and complexities of John Le Carré ? exposes just how close we may have come to a nuclear Armageddon.

- Charlie Cockey