US DVD release 28th March 2006

Reel.com by James Emanuel Shapiro:
"New Yorker's THE GLADIATORS is their third Peter Watkins DVD, after PUNISHMENT PARK and EDVARD MUNCH and, again, it is a superb effort."   Read full review.

Willamette Week Online by David Walker 19th April 2006:
"THE GLADIATORS borders on brilliant and is a must-see for lovers of subversive cinema.  (It's) a blistering indictment of the media and military might. It laid the groundwork for other films critical of the media that have come along over the years, without pulling any punches. Much like Stanley Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE, it is a cautionary tale of warfare, with brilliant touches of black comedy."   Read full review.

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson 18th April 2006:
"Did Peter Watkins create reality TV? He'd spit in my eye at the suggestion, but decades before that grim entertainment paradigm began to cancer around our cultural lives, Watkins was prophesying (amid his tireless interrogations of authority) about a world monstrously managed by image manufacture and fake truth."
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