Revolution in Peter Watkins' La Commune

British filmmaker Peter Watkins’ La Commune (2000) deals with one of the most marginalized yet vital historical events, the Paris Commune, a worker’s government that briefly ruled Paris in 1871. This thesis argues that while the content of the film is the revolution itself, Watkins uses revolutionary forms, such as the Brechtian Epic method, to represent the content. However, the dynamics between the form and the content was facilitated by Watkins’ unique democratic artistic process, the outcome of which is the film’s capacity to become a source of historical political reference as well as a contemporary means of revolutionary cinema.