His Oscar-winning 1965 film “The War Game” depicted a post-nuclear-attack England, one of his many fictionalized docudramas against war and repression. By J. Hoberman Peter Watkins, a British ...

It was announced that Peter Watkins, the filmmaker behind the 1965 movie The War Game, passed away on Oct. 30 in Bourganeuf, France. The news was posted on his website by his wife. He was 90 years old ...