Peter Watkins

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Peter Watkins

Born 1935-10-29 Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK 13 films

Peter Watkins (29 October 1935 – 30 October 2025) was an English filmmaker, documentarian, writer and film theorist. He is known as a pioneer of the docudrama and the mockumentary genres, typically with heavy political content. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. He mainly concentrated his works and ideas around the mass media and viewers' relation/participation to a movie or television documentary. Nearly all of Watkin…

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Filmography

13 films
The Journey poster

Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's percept…

The Journey

★ 4.6 1987

Edvard Munch poster

Edvard Munch's childhood is overshadowed by death: he suffers the loss of his sister and mother, wh…

Edvard Munch

★ 7.3 1974

The War Game poster

A hypothetical Chinese invasion of South Vietnam triggers a new world war between East and West. In…

The War Game

★ 7.7 1966

Culloden poster

Culloden, Scottish Highlands, April 16th, 1746. It was one of the most mishandled and brutal battle…

Culloden

★ 7.4 1964