Peter Watkins — Director (10)
The Trap (2012) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Fällan
director: 彼得·沃特金 actor: Karl Lennart Sandquist / Bo Melander
other title: 地下生活 / Fällan
Set in the underground living quarters of a scientist working at an international nuclear waste station near the west coast of Sweden. It is the end of 1999, and the TV in the oppressive living room inhabited by John (the scientist), his wife Margereta, and their son Peter, is proclaiming optimistic statements about the promise of the New Millennium.
Culloden (1964) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Culloden
director: 彼得·沃特金 actor: Olivier Espitalier-Noel / George McBean
other title: 可洛登战役 / La bataille de Culloden
Culloden, Scottish Highlands, April 16th, 1746. It was one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Great Britain. Its aftermath was tragic. The men responsible for such a disaster must be exposed. The men, women and children who suffered because of it must be remembered.
Resan (1987) [Movie] Douban
Resan
director: 彼得·沃特金
other title: 旅行
One of the most significant filmmakers of his generation, Peter Watkins has made compassionate, uncompromising films and videos that challenge not only conventional styles and techniques but also notions of history and the media. The ever-timely The Journey: A Film for Peace, made between 1984 and 1987, is a pioneering attempt at a fully international cinema. Watkins worked with support groups around the world to raise money and assemble crews while shooting the film in the United States, Canada, Norway, Scotland, France, West Germany, Mozambique, Japan, Australia, Tahiti, and Mexico. He spent eighteen months editing the more than 100 hours of footage he compiled, weaving together extended family interviews, documentation of the global arms race, recollections of survivors of the bombings in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Hamburg, community psychodramas of possible disaster scenarios, and works by other artists. The film is monumental both in its critique and analysis and in its effort to inspire and occasion new ways of using information and the media.
Gladiatorerna (1969) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gladiatorerna
director: Peter Watkins actor: Arthur Pentelow
other title: 女战士 / Peace Game
Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against each other.
Punishment Park (1971) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban Eggplant.place TMDB
Punishment Park
8.3 (11 ratings) director: 彼得·沃特金 actor: Patrick Boland / Kent Foreman
other title: 惩罚公园 / 惩戒公园
In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.
The War Game (1966) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The War Game
9.0 (10 ratings) director: Peter Watkins actor: 迈克尔·阿斯普 / Peter Graham
other title: 战争游戏 / 워 게임
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.
Privilege (1967) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Privilege
director: 彼得·沃特金 actor: Paul Jones / 简·诗琳普顿
other title: 特权 / 프리빌리지
Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter, receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever agenda they see fit. When a beautiful artist, Vanessa Ritchie, is commissioned to paint his portrait, she pushes Shorter to question his obedience to his manipulative handlers.