A capacity crowd gathered in the Emmaus Theatre on Wednesday, September 25th for a special screening of a new film.
The film “War Game” imagines what it would be like if an event like the January 6th insurrection happened again in 2025.
The film follows a bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected policy makers spanning five presidential administrations as they participate in an unscripted role play exercise. Portraying a fictional President of the United States and his advisors, they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the U. S. military in the wake of a contested 2024 presidential election. Like actors in a thriller, but with profound, real world stakes, the players have only six hours to save American democracy…