Punishment Park

197187 minsColor
Peter Watkins, Director
Seldom seen during the Nixon administration when it was made, this now prescient faux-documentary from maverick filmmaker Peter Watkins (THE WAR GAME) presents a troubling portrait of a future America where dissenters and political troublemakers are tried by secret tribunals. Given a choice between a lengthy prison term or three days in "Punishment Park," the condemned choose the latter as Watkins's camera crew follows their ordeal. "Might be the most radioactive portrait of American divisiveness and oppression ever made" — Village Voice.
TAGS: , Feature Film
TV Rating TV14
Graphic Violence, Adult Language, Adult Content
Current Screenings
Sunday November 22 at 12:15AM
Sunday November 22 at 4:25AM
Cast & Crew
Director Peter Watkins
Producer Susan Martin
Screenwriter Peter Watkins
Cinematographer Joan Churchill
Cinematographer Peter Smokler
Editor Terry Hodel
Editor Peter Watkins
Composer Paul Motian
Actor Carmen Argenziano
Actor Patrick Boland
Actor Kent Foreman
Actor Luke Johnson
Actor Katherine Quittner
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