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Peter Watkins

Highest Rated: 100% Edvard Munch (1975)

Lowest Rated: 55% Privilege (1967)

Birthday: Oct 29, 1935

Birthplace: Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK

Began his career in advertising as an assistant producer and turned to amateur filmmaking in the late 1950s. In the mid-1960s Watkins was commissioned by BBC-TV to make two feature-length "docudramas" incorporating a quasi-newsreel style and nonprofessional actors. The second of these, "The War Game" (1966), graphically portrayed the nightmare of nuclear war and was banned from broadcast. It was subsequently released in theaters and earned a Best Documentary Oscar in 1966.

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Highest rated movies

100% 89% Edvard Munch
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100% 92% The Battle of Culloden
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100% 78% La commune (Paris, 1871)
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93% 89% The War Game
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92% 86% Punishment Park
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55% 76% Privilege
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The Gladiators
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Journey, The - V. 1
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63% The Peace Game
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80% Freethinker
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% 78% La commune (Paris, 1871) Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 2000
No Score Yet 80% Freethinker Director,
Screenwriter
- 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Journey, The - V. 1 Director - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Evening Land Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 1977
100% 89% Edvard Munch Director,
Writer
$43.5K 1975
92% 86% Punishment Park Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 1971
No Score Yet 63% The Peace Game Director,
Writer
- 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Gladiators Director - 1969
100% 92% The Battle of Culloden Director - 1969
55% 76% Privilege Director - 1967
93% 89% The War Game Director - 1966