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English film director (1935-2025)

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Peter Watkins 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.

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Filmography 23

Punishment Park1971 · ★ 7.3
The War Game1966 · ★ 7.7
Edvard Munch1974 · ★ 7.3
Culloden1964 · ★ 7.4
La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003
Privilege1967
The Gladiators1969
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier1959
The Forgotten Faces1961
The Freethinker1994
Evening Land1977
The Journey1987
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins2001
The Trap2012
The Media Project1991
The Web1956
The Seventies People1975
The Making of Culloden2006
THE JOURNEY Parts 17-19
The War Game at Cinecity2026
The Role of a Lifetime2003
Introduction to Punishment Park2004
The Controllers1963

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Television 4

Reflets de Cannes1954
Edvard Munch1974
NET Playhouse1966
La Commune (Paris, 1871)2000

Awards 2

1976Berliner Kunstpreis
1966Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

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Peter Watkins 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 to and participation in a movie or television documentary.

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Country
United Kingdom
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1935 to 2025 · aged 90
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