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 ...
Peter Watkins, the British filmmaker whose 1965 nuclear war drama “The War Game” was deemed too disturbing to broadcast by the BBC, died Oct. 30 in Bourganeuf, France. He was 90. His wife announced ...
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 ...