Synopsis:

Watkins' first film for the BBC, Culloden uses documentary techniques to create a 'dramatic reconstruction' of the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The last battle fought on British soil, it was closer to a massacre, with 1000 of Bonnie Prince Charlie's starving and ill-prepared Highland army of 5000 being killed in a single day.

The horror of the day is recreated with the immediacy of a news report; handheld camera, on-the-spot interviews and the presence of a reporter whose increasingly concerned voiceover shapes the narrative, all combine to produce a disturbing film, which Watkins intended to draw a parallel with the events in the Vietnamese highlands.