Half a century hasn’t dimmed the seismic power of this pacifist diptych, now handsomely restored and packed with supplements by the British Film Institute for its release in a dual format edition. The ...

In films such as The War Game, Culloden and Punishment Park, Watkins pioneered the mock-documentary form and used it to make his historical dramas and up-to-the-minute dystopias all equally immediate ...

Peter Watkins, who has died aged 90, was a remarkably talented, visionary film-maker who made a literally explosive impact on British television in the 1960s with two BBC drama-documentaries about ...