Peter Watkins

A portrait of Peter Watkins, an Oscar-winning British filmmaker who, for the past 4 decades, has proved that films can be made without compromise. With the proliferation of TV channels, documentaries are enjoying an unprecedented boom fuelled by audiences seeking an alternative to infotainment. But now documentary filmmaking, too, finds itself constrained by the imperatives of television.

Peter Watkins' disturbing vision of the personal and public consequences of a nuclear attack in Britain. Winner of an Oscar in 1967 (Best Documentary).