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Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins Directing

29 Oct, 1935 in Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK – 30 Oct, 2025 (90)

 

Peter Watkins Directing

29 Oct, 1935 in Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK – 30 Oct, 2025 (90)

 
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... see more
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... see more

The War Game at Cinecity

Acting (Self (Archival footage))

07/07/2026

The Trap

Writer · Director

11/04/2012

The Making of Culloden

Acting (Self)

03/07/2006

Introduction to Punishment Park

Acting (Himself) · Director

01/01/2004

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

Director · Writer · Editor

03/07/2003

The Role of a Lifetime

Acting (Self)

01/01/2003

The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins

Acting (Himself)

07/09/2001

The Freethinker

Acting (Policeman) · Post Production Supervisor · Editor · Script · Director · Writer

03/09/1994

The Media Project

Writer · Director · Editor

31/12/1991

The Journey

Acting (Narrator / Self) · Director · Writer · Producer · Editor · Sound Editor

24/02/1987

Evening Land

Director · Idea · Editor

21/02/1977

The Seventies People

Director · Writer

24/09/1975

Edvard Munch

Acting (Narrator (voice)) · Director · Writer · Editor

12/11/1974

Punishment Park

Acting (Documentarist (uncredited)) · Screenplay · Director · Editor

01/10/1971

THE JOURNEY Parts 17-19

Director

The Gladiators

Director · Writer

25/06/1969

Privilege

Director · Writer

28/02/1967

It Happened Here

Assistant Director

12/05/1966

The War Game

Acting (Documentist (uncredited)) · Director · Writer · Producer

13/04/1966

Culloden

Acting (Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)) · Director · Writer · Producer

15/12/1964

The Controllers

Writer

01/01/1963

The Forgotten Faces

Writer · Director

01/09/1961

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

Acting (Narrator (voice)) · Director · Writer · Cinematography · Editor · Producer

02/01/1959

The Web

Director · Producer

01/01/1956
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