After the banning of The War Game and the poor reception of his first non-television feature, Privilege, Watkins left England and has made all of his subsequent films abroad: The Gladiators in Sweden, Punishment Park in the United States, Edvard Munch in Norway, Resan (a 14-hour film cycle about the threat of nuclear war) in ten different countries, and La Commune in France.
Despois da prohibición de The War Game e da pobre recepción da súa primeira obra non televisiva, Privilege, Watkins deixou Inglaterra e sacou as súas seguintes películas no estranxeiro: The Gladiators en Suecia, Punishment Park nos EUA, Edvard Munch en Noruega, Resan (un ciclo de 14 horas sobre a ameaza da guerra nuclear) en dez países diferentes, e La Commune en Francia.