If America’s current political moment wasn’t shaped precisely as it now is, War Game would be decidedly less harrowing. Its setup is unorthodox, but that’s part of its brilliance. Two years after the United States Capitol Attack on January 6, an assembly of U.S. veterans and former U.S. government officials (including Steve Bullock, the former Governor of Montana) got together in a mock situation room. As cameras rolled, they “acted out” how the President and his staff might respond to an insurrection following the 2024 election, should it prove more calamitous than its predecessor. By doing so, War Game feels less like a documentary—which, technically, it is—than a distressing feature film. How would the White House respond if acting members of the U.S. military took the side of the mutineers? Are we prepared? And, most acutely: is War Game closer to fiction or reality? —Jack Sullivan