The Making of Culloden

A look at the making of the 1964 classic film Culloden. Peter Watkins' television career was explosive, highly innovative yet tragically, short lived. He made only two films for the BBC, Culloden in 1964 and The War Game in 1965 which the BBC subsequently banned, ending his television career. Watkins rarely returns to Britain, and even more rarely talks to the British media. In this documentary he participates exclusively, in a reunion with the cast and crew of Culloden. In a frank interview for the programme he recounts the short lived happy period making Culloden and discusses, as he sees it, the tragic decline television has taken since it was made.