Punishment Park on Sundance Channel 7:30 - 9:00 pm (on now)

[Billy Burnett]

http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500315273

Seldom seen during the Nixon administration when it was made, this now prescient faux-documentary from maverick filmmaker Peter Watkins (THE WAR GAME) presents a troubling portrait of a future America where dissenters and political troublemakers are tried by secret tribunals. Given a choice between a lengthy prison term or three days in "Punishment Park," the condemned choose the latter as Watkins's camera crew follows their ordeal. "Might be the most radioactive portrait of American divisiveness and oppression ever made" — Village Voice.