Peter Watkins
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 movies, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of classic documentary and movies. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary. Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The first of these, Culloden, portrayed the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in a documentary style, as if television reporters were interviewing the participants and accompanying them into battle; a similar device was used in his biographical film Edvard Munch. La Commune (Paris, 1871) reenacts the Paris Commune days using a large cast of French non-actors. In 2004 he also wrote a book, Media Crisis, an engaged essay about the media crisis, the monoform and, foremost, the lack of debate around the construction of new forms of audiovisual media. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Watkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
(Himself)
The Journey
(Narrator / Self)
Edvard Munch
(Narrator (voice))
Punishment Park
(Documentarist (uncredited))
The War Game
(Documentist (uncredited))
The Freethinker
(Policeman)
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
(Narrator (voice))
Culloden
(Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited))
Reflets de Cannes
(Self)
The War Game
(Director)
Punishment Park
(Director)
Punishment Park
(Screenplay)
Culloden
(Director)
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
(Director)
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
(Director)
Edvard Munch
(Director)
Edvard Munch
(Writer)
The Gladiators
(Director)
Privilege
(Director)
Privilege
(Writer)
The Forgotten Faces
(Director)
The Forgotten Faces
(Writer)
It Happened Here
(Assistant Director)
The Gladiators
(Writer)
Evening Land
(Director)
The Seventies People
(Director)
The Seventies People
(Writer)
The Journey
(Director)
The Journey
(Writer)
The Journey
(Producer)
The Journey
(Editor)
The Journey
(Sound Editor)
The Trap
(Director)
The Trap
(Writer)
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
(Writer)
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
(Editor)
Edvard Munch
(Editor)
The Freethinker
(Script)
The Freethinker
(Editor)
The Freethinker
(Post Production Supervisor)
The Freethinker
(Director)
Evening Land
(Idea)
Evening Land
(Editor)
Culloden
(Writer)
The War Game
(Writer)
The War Game
(Producer)
Punishment Park
(Editor)
The Media Project
(Director)
The Media Project
(Writer)
Culloden
(Producer)
The Freethinker
(Writer)
The Web
(Director)
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
(Writer)
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
(Producer)
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
(Cinematography)
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
(Editor)
The Media Project
(Editor)
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
(Director)
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
(Editor)
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
(Writer)
Edvard Munch
(Creator)