Peter Watkins: Peter Watkins. Director: The War Game. Peter Watkins began his career in advertising as an assistant producer and turned to amateur filmmaking in the late 1950s. In the mid-'60s he 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...
Known For: The War Game (Director), Privilege (Director(directed by)), Aftenlandet (Director), La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Director)