3 Movies Directed by Peter Watkins

The War Game

The War Game

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-02-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

48 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (4518 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Watkins

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Watkins

Fullplot:

The War Game is a fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city. Although it won an Oscar for Best Documentary, it is fiction. It was intended as an hour-long program to air on BBC 1, but it was deemed too intense and violent to broadcast. It went to theatrical distribution as a feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching realism.

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-11-12

Languages:

French, English, Norwegian, German, Swedish, Danish

Countries:

Sweden, Norway

Runtime:

210 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.4 (2054 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Watkins

Fullplot:

Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe's most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes back to the death from consumption of his mother, when he was five, his sister's death, and his near death at 13 from pulmonary disease. The film finds enduring significance in Munch's brief affair with "Mrs. Heiberg" and his participation in the cafè society of anarchist Hans Jaeger in Christiania and later in Berlin with Strindberg. Through it all comes Munch's melancholy and his desire to render on canvas, cardboard, paper, stone, and wood his innermost feelings.

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-07

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

345 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (640 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Watkins

Fullplot:

A war drama film who merger between documentary and reportage and fiction which turned over common sense, a unique where people in the 19th century was interviewed and covered on television, many of them are working class but the bourgeoisie had not escaped from camera's observation, each recorded their speech and gestures even the revolt that led to extreme and radical and heartbreaking for the working class. One of the most important French film at 21st century.

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