Peter Watkins
Directing • AGE 90
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 wi...
Filmography
The War Game at Cinecity
Self (Archival footage)
2026
The Trap
Writer
2012
Introduction to Punishment Park
Himself
2004
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Director
2003
The Role of a Lifetime
Self
2003
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
Himself
2001
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Director
2000
The Freethinker
Policeman
1994
The Media Project
Writer
1991
The Journey
Narrator / Self
1987
Evening Land
Director
1977
The Seventies People
Writer
1975
Edvard Munch
Narrator (voice)
1974
Edvard Munch
Director
1974
Punishment Park
Documentarist (uncredited)
1971
The Gladiators
Director
1969
Privilege
Director
1967
NET Playhouse
Director
1966
It Happened Here
Assistant Director
1966
The War Game
Documentist (uncredited)
1966
Culloden
Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
1964
The Controllers
Director
1963
The Forgotten Faces
Writer
1961
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Narrator (voice)
1959
The Web
Director
1956
Reflets de Cannes
Self
1954