Directing
Peter Watkins
- Born
- Oct 29, 1935 · Aged 90
- Died
- Oct 30, 2025
- Place of birth
- Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 13
- TV credits
- 1
- Directing credits
- 22
Also known as (1)
- 彼得·沃特金
Biography
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 with heavy political content. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. He mainly concentrated his works and ideas around the mass media and viewers' relation/participation to a movie or television documentary. Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The…
