Born on this day – Peter Watkins:

Peter Watkins

Filmmaker

Documentarian

Writer

Film theorist

October 29, 1935 – October 31, 2025

Credits:

70'ernes folk (1975); A Discussion with Peter Watkins (1977); Aftenlandet (1977); Culloden (1964); Du côté de chez Fred (1988); Edvard Munch (1974); Ex-S (1996); Fällan (1975); Fritänkaren (1994); How the BBC Began (2022); It Happened Here (1964); La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000); Le Fossoyeur de Films (2024); NET Playhouse (1967); Peter Watkins Reflects on 'The War Game' and the Media (1983); Privilege (1967); Punishment Park (1971); Reflets de Cannes (1967); Resan (1987); The Controllers (1963); The Debridement of Rome (2012); The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (1959); The Field of Red (1958); The Forgotten Faces (1961); The Gladiators (1969); The Media Project (1991); The Movies (1967); The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001); The War Game (1966); The Web (1956); Tomorrow and the Day Before (2004); Ung bølge i England (1967).

Born on this day – Ralph Steiner:

Ralph Steiner

Photographer

Filmmaker

February 8, 1899 – July 13, 1986

Credits:

Look Park (1974); This Is Tomorrow (1943); The City (1939); People of the Cumberland (1937); The River (1938); Pie in the Sky (1935); Cafe Universal (1934); Hands (1934); Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or the Lovely Life of Little Lisa (1931); Surf and Seaweed (1931); Mechanical Principles (1931); H2O (1929).

Born on this day – Jan Haag:

Jan Haag

Filmmaker

Artist

Writer

December 6, 1933 – April 29, 2024

Credits:

Founded the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute (AFI) in 1974.

Artist known for needlepoint canvases and poetry.

Written work:

A Wedding in Mahabaleshwar, included in Travelers' Tales India (2009); Ascesis (2014); Birds Migrate At Night; Companion Spirit (2006); Haag, Jan (2014). Indra's Net II (2002); No Palms; The 1996 Poems (2011); The 2011 Poems (2011); The Devayani Poems; The Jaipur Sequence; There You Are, included in Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It (2016).

Movie:

Sudden Slaughter - Knochenwald 3 (2008).