Direction: Peter Watkins

Direction Peter Watkins

Plot We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives...

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Geir Westby · Gro Fraas · Kerstii Allum · Eric Allum

Plot Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe's most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes...

Direction Peter Watkins

Plot A reconstruction of the Battle of Culloden, the last battle to take place on British soil, as if modern TV cameras were present.

Direction Peter Watkins

Plot The War Game is a fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city. Although it won an Oscar for Best Documentary, it...

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Patrick Boland · Kent Foreman · Carmen Argenziano · Luke Johnson

Plot "Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the...

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Bent Andersen · Kai Schøning Andersen · Mogens Andersen · Oluf Andersen

Plot Evening Land presents fictitious events in the Europe of those days. It opens in a Copenhagen shipyard with a strike due to the construction of four submarines, potential carriers of...

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Brian Robertson · Peter Watkins

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Michael Roy · John Newing · Stan Mercer · Irene Mallard

Plot “The Forgotten Faces (1961), a film reconstruction of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, won Watkins another amateur Oscar, and to this day, the film is praised in England as “one...

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Arthur Pentelow · Frederick Danner · Hans Bendrik · Daniel Harle

Plot Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against...

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Paul Jones · Jean Shrimpton · Mark London · William Job

Plot Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement....

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Anders Mattsson · Lena Settervall · Roland Borgström · Ingela Berger

Plot A 274-minute portrait of the life of playwright August Strindberg. The topic of the movie is inextricable from its method of production: for two years, beginning in 1992, Watkins created...

Direction Peter Watkins

Plot A global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it.

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Jette Jørgensen · Inge Lundgren · Erik L. Christensen · Anne Katherine Holm

Plot The Seventies Folk is a 1975 television docu-drama written and directed by Peter Watkins that was produced by Dansmark Radio. The tele-film explores the high suicide rate in Denmark, the...

Direction Peter Watkins

Plot A reconstruction of the allied landing in occupied France during the second World War.

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Karl Lennart Sandquist · Bo Melander · Anita Kronevi · Jonas Berg

Plot In the year 1999, totalitarianism prevails with the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. colluding to govern the world by strict rules. Chaos erupts on the surface but state employees live safely underground....