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Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style.
Learn about the life and work of Peter Watkins, a pioneer of cinéma-vérité and a critic of the media industry. Find out how to access his films, which are rarely shown on TV or DVD, and his latest critical statement.
Mar 24, 2016 · Ever since the now ex-pat British independent filmmaker Peter Watkins caught the eye of the BBC with his early amateur short films The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (1959) and The Forgotten Faces (1960), right up until his last film to date, La Commune (Paris, 1871) in 2000, his has been a career that has largely flown under the ...
A retrospective of the British-born director's films, which engage politics, art, history, and literature with a radical and experimental style. Learn about his exile, his critique of the media, and his website on the "Monoform".
Roger Ebert interviews Peter Watkins, a British director who made controversial films about nuclear war and pop culture. Watkins discusses his style, themes and motivations in "The War Game" and "Privilege".
Feb 28, 2017 · Privilege (1967) is a film by Peter Watkins that explores how pop stars and media can be manipulated by the establishment for political and religious control. The film's themes of pop, power, populism and propaganda are still relevant today, 50 years after its release.
Peter Watkins is a British filmmaker who specializes in documentary-style dramas. He won an Oscar for The War Game (1966), a banned anti-nuclear film, and made other controversial works such as Privilege (1967) and La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000).
