Dream of a World

Made by Peter Watkins collaborator Nicholas Gosling, this provocative speculative fiction docudrama restages the Vietnam War in the UK.

  • Director

    Nicholas Gosling

  • With

    Robert Henderson, Frederick Danner, Tom Barrett

  • UK 1969. 103min

  • Digital

Unfathomably rare – it previously screened decades ago – and with only a handful of film elements known to exist, Dream of a World was written and directed by Watkins’ co-writer on The Gladiators. Relocating the politics of the Vietnam War to an anarchic, post-1968 UK, this urgent, imaginative film illustrates the power of Watkins’ influence. It screens from a digital scan made from compromised materials.

William Fowler