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Countdown to Looking Glass
1984 · Film · 90 min
Directed by Fred Barzyk
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.
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Another is Countdown to Looking Glass. It starts out as being told through live news reports although I guess the writers couldn't find a way to maintain that type of storytelling through the whole movie.
Although it's not nuclear war, a better example in the same vein is Special Bulletin.