WarGames

United States of America, 1983

Film

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High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department’s war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

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Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

Credits

producer

Harold Schneider

Richard Hashimoto

Duration

01:54:00

Production places
United States of America
Production dates
1983

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-860

Language

English

TMDB-Movie

860

Wikidata

Q504697

Collected

359 times

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