Universal Clock - The Resistance of Peter Watkins (Geoff Bowie, 2001)

With the current proliferation of TV channels, documentaries are enjoying an unprecedented boom fuelled by audiences seeking an alternative to infotainment. But now documentary filmmaking, too, finds itself constrained by the imperatives of television. The chief culprit is the so-called 'universal clock', a straitjacket that imposes theme and running-time restrictions to meet the demands of the global market. However, there is a rebel resisting this uniformity of the spirit. His name is Peter Watkins, he is British, and for the last three decades he has proven that films may be made without compromise. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310279/ -