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Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins

DirectorActorEditorWriterCrew Oct 29 (died age 90) Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK 1954–2012 (58 year career)
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Biography

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 dram…

Known For

The War Game
Film

The War Game

Documentist (uncredited)
Punishment Park
Film

Punishment Park

Documentarist (uncredited)
Edvard Munch
Film

Edvard Munch

Narrator (voice)
Culloden
Film

Culloden

Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Film

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

Director
It Happened Here
Film

It Happened Here

Assistant Director
Privilege
Film

Privilege

Director
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Film

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

Narrator (voice)

Filmography