Peter Whitehead Movies

  • 1977
    Fire in the Water

    Fire in the Water

    Fire in the Water

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    A man decides to edit a documentary on the 1960's at a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands.

    Fire in the Water
  • 1973
    Daddy

    Daddy

    Daddy

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    Daddy, filmed in cooperation with movie director Peter Whitehead, discovers the connection between a father and little girl. Like the majority of...

    Daddy
  • 1967
    Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

    Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

    Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

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    Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different...

    Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
  • 2005
    Pink Floyd London '66-'67

    Pink Floyd London '66-'67

    Pink Floyd London '66-'67

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    Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60's Pink Floyd line-up at Sound...

    Pink Floyd London '66-'67
  • 2012
    The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965

    The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965

    The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965

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    A documentary on the Rolling Stones that was shot in 1965 on a two-stop tour of Ireland, just as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was becoming a...

    The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965
  • 1967
    The Benefit of the Doubt

    The Benefit of the Doubt

    The Benefit of the Doubt

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    A documentary following US, Peter Brook's experimental play about the moral issues surrounding the Vietnam War, Benefit of the Doubt is the only...

    The Benefit of the Doubt
  • 1965
    Wholly Communion

    Wholly Communion

    Wholly Communion

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    A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale...

    Wholly Communion
  • 1969
    The Fall

    The Fall

    The Fall

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    "The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a...

    The Fall
  • 1967
    Jeanetta Cochrane

    Jeanetta Cochrane

    Jeanetta Cochrane

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    More consciously experimental than Whitehead's other works, this film draws on a variety of sources, including sequences of London shot while...

    Jeanetta Cochrane
  • 1998
    The Falconer

    The Falconer

    The Falconer

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    Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean...

    The Falconer
  • 1969
    Lilford Hall

    Lilford Hall

    Lilford Hall

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    In 1969, Penny Slinger and her then partner filmmaker Peter Whitehead were given permission to produce a body of work in Lilford Hall, a decaying...

    Lilford Hall
  • 1965
    When I Was Young

    When I Was Young

    When I Was Young

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    When I Was Young intercuts footage of Eric Burdon and The Animals with particularly pop-associated images such as Lucky Strike advertising logos and...

    When I Was Young
  • 1966
    Charlie Is My Darling

    Charlie Is My Darling

    Charlie Is My Darling

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    Charlie Is My Darling, directed by Peter Whitehead, was the first documentary film about The Rolling Stones. The movie was shot during the band's...

    Charlie Is My Darling
  • 1968
    Nothing To Do With Me

    Nothing To Do With Me

    Nothing To Do With Me

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    A film portrait of Peter Whitehead that takes the form of an interview without questions - an experiment with Being and Time.

    Nothing To Do With Me
  • 1976
    A Dream Longer Than the Night

    A Dream Longer Than the Night

    A Dream Longer Than the Night

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    "In this heady, phantasmagoric fairy tale, a young girl comes face to face with a friendly dragon and a magnanimous witch. Upon the witch granting...

    A Dream Longer Than the Night
  • 1964
    The Perception Of Life

    The Perception Of Life

    The Perception Of Life

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    An extraordinarily beautiful and simple science film about the history of biological ideas that shows how they expanded as technology improved....

    The Perception Of Life
  • 2009
    Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts

    Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts

    Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts

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    Adapting its title and theme from Thomas De Quincey's murder text, this long-overdue return to narrative cinema by the great British filmmaker Peter...

    Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts
  • 2006
    In the Beginning Was the Image

    In the Beginning Was the Image

    In the Beginning Was the Image

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    This documentary paints a fascinating portrait of Peter Whitehead, whose largely obscure yet important body of cinematic work from the 1960s and '70s...

    In the Beginning Was the Image