Where to watch Peter Watkins in the UK
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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 Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The …
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- Reflets de Cannes (1954) as Self
- La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000) Director
- The Journey (1987) Director
- Punishment Park (1971) Screenplay
- La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003) Director
- It Happened Here (1966) Assistant Director
- The Gladiators (1969) Director
- The War Game (1966) Director
- Culloden (1964) Director
- Privilege (1967) Director
- Evening Land (1977) Director
- Edvard Munch (1974) Creator
- Edvard Munch (1974) Director
- The Forgotten Faces (1961) Writer
- The Freethinker (1994) Post Production Supervisor
- The Trap (2012) Writer
- The Media Project (1991) Writer
- The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (1959) Director
- The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001) as Himself
- The Seventies People (1975) Writer
- The Web (1956) Director
- The Role of a Lifetime (2003) as Self
- Introduction to Punishment Park (2004) Director
- The Controllers Director
- The Making of Culloden (2006) as Self
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Most-watched Peter Watkins films currently: The Journey (1987), Punishment Park (1971), La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003), It Happened Here (1966), The Gladiators (1969).
What TV shows has Peter Watkins appeared in?
Selected TV credits: Reflets de Cannes (1954), La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000), Edvard Munch (1974).
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