Culloden, Scottish Highlands, April 16th, 1746. It was one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Great Britain. Its aftermath was tragic. The men responsible for such a disaster must be exposed. The men, women and children who suffered because of it must be remembered.
Direction
Watkins invents fake-verité style with non-actors and sheer rage.
Editing
Jarring cuts between polite officers and corpse-strewn moors.
Writing
Searing interview questions that indict 1964 as much as 1746.
Director
Peter Watkins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Watkins made this after the BBC rejected his nuclear-war film The War Game—so he channeled that fury into exposing another British atrocity.
Those aren't professional actors—they're actual Scottish locals Watkins found, some literally playing their own ancestors' oppressors without knowing it.
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