Peter Watkins

'Peter Watkins' (qv) 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)_ (qv), graphically portrayed the nightmare of nuclear war and was banned from broadcast. It was subsequently released in theaters and earned a best documentary Oscar in 1966. Watkins enjoyed modest success with the commercial feature film _Privilege (1967)_ (qv), but has subsequently worked primarily in the documentary genre, based in various Scandinavian countries. One of his more recent films, _Resan (1987)_ (qv), is an 873-minute (14-hour) epic that addresses such issues as the arms race and global hunger.::Daniel Yates <kamerad76@hotmail.com>