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Peter Watkins

English film director

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born
1935
died
2025
age at death
90
known for
film director, screenwriter, film screenwriter

1935 – 2025

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Peter Watkins 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 to and participation in a movie or television documentary.

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