English filmmaker Peter Watkins, revered in cineaste circles if little known outside them, is in his early 70s now and hasn't made a movie since 2000. Yet never has his work been more relevant. Recent ...

Peter Watkins: Visionary director who made an explosive impact on BBC television with ‘Culloden’ and ‘The War Game’ - His award-winning film about the likely impact of a nuclear bomb was banned from t ...

Peter Watkins, the British filmmaker whose 1965 nuclear war drama “The War Game” was deemed too disturbing to broadcast by the BBC, died Oct. 30 in Bourganeuf, France. He was 90. His wife announced ...

Forgotten Faces is an early amateur film made by the director Peter Watkins recreating the Hungarian Revolution from the point of view of a small group of revolutionaries. Famous for his work on the ...

Peter Watkins recounts the short-lived, happy period making his classic documentary Culloden and discusses, as he sees it, the tragic decline television has taken since it was made.

Peter Watkins, an Oscar-winning filmmaker known as a pioneer of the docudrama and the mockumentary, has died. He was 90 years old. Watkins died at Bourganeuf Hospital in France on Friday, Oct. 31, his ...

Watkins on the set of his last film, La Commune (1871) Icarus Films Who would you choose as Britain’s most influential living film director? Ken Loach? Mike Leigh? Even Sam Mendes, director of the ...

English filmmaker Peter Watkins, revered in cineaste circles if little known outside them, is in his early 70s now and hasn't made a movie since 2000. Yet never has his work been more relevant. Recent ...

Half a century hasn’t dimmed the seismic power of this pacifist diptych, now handsomely restored and packed with supplements by the British Film Institute for its release in a dual format edition. The ...