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Culloden

  • TV Movie
  • 19641964
  • 1h 9m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
1.6K
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Culloden (1964)
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The 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England.The 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England.The 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England.
IMDb RATING
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1.6K
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  • Director
    • Peter Watkins
  • Writer
    • Peter Watkins
  • Stars
    • Tony Cosgrove(uncredited)
    • Olivier Espitalier-Noel(uncredited)
    • Don Fairservice(uncredited)
  • Director
    • Peter Watkins
  • Writer
    • Peter Watkins
  • Stars
    • Tony Cosgrove(uncredited)
    • Olivier Espitalier-Noel(uncredited)
    • Don Fairservice(uncredited)
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    • 25Critic reviews
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    Tony Cosgrove
    • Lt. Ward
    • (uncredited)
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    Olivier Espitalier-Noel
    • Prince Charles Edward Stuart
    • (uncredited)
    Don Fairservice
    • English Officer
    • (uncredited)
    George McBean
    • Alexander McDonald
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Oates
    • Pvt. Alexander Laing
    • (uncredited)
    Patrick Watkins
    • Crying Baby
    • (uncredited)
    Peter Watkins
    • Field Interviewer
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Peter Watkins
    • Writer
      • Peter Watkins
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    • Goofs
      In the 40-min mark, one British soldier appears to bayonet a wounded soldier lying on the ground, but as the latter stands up, it turns out that the former had stabbed the ground.
    • Quotes

      Narrator: They've created a desert and have called it "peace".

    • Connections
      Featured in Television: Play Power (1985)
    • Soundtracks
      My Bonnie Moorhen
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      Sung by Colin Cater

    User reviews28

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    Incredible
    This is one of the films (even though shown on TV, it absolutely qualifies as cinema) that shaped my childhood, my politics, and my love of film-making and its true potential. I remember being simply blown away, not merely by the intensity of the violence and aggression (I had never seen war filmed like this), but by the passion and the pain of the "ordinary people" - the Scots, especially the Scottish women - as they witnessed the English brutality around them. Totally extraordinary to me also, was the fact that the camera team felt so moved as to intercede in the violence - not merely breaking the boundaries of media "objectivity" in a way that had rarely, if ever, been done before in 1964, but also breaking the boundaries of time - remember, we are in a war here that is taking place in 1746, and yet it seems perfectly natural and believable to have a camera team pushing into frame, protesting the behavior of the English troops.

    Peter Watkins went on to make many groundbreaking movies, but little can touch Culloden - the closest is Punishment Park, which uses much the same techniques to follow a group of students and protesters in a slightly fictionalized and rather fascist USA, where (as I recall - I haven't seen the movie in years), they are given a "choice" between internment or a (loaded) chance to "run", with the risk/likelihood of being shot and killed by their paramilitary pursuers.

    A minor personal note: I saw Culloden on TV while I was very young and at school in Britain. It is a hard film to find - at least until the recent DVD - but I came across it again at the Sydney Public Library, of all places, during a trip to Australia in the 1990s, and sat watching it on 16mm, on a Moviola in the library - as stunned and moved as I had been the first time I saw it. It was reassuring to know that its power had not diminished.
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    • Sep 23, 2006

    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 24, 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • Gaelic
    • Also known as
      • The Battle of Culloden
    • Filming locations
      • Inverness, Highland, Scotland, UK
    • Production company
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 9 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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