Resan (Swedish for The Journey) is a 1987 documentary film by Peter Watkins, made between the years 1983 and 1985 on several continents,[2] and structured around the theme of nuclear weapons, military spending and poverty.
With a running time of fourteen hours and thirty-three minutes, Resan is the longest non-experimental film ever made.
In February 2007, it was screened at the Mexico City International Festival of Contemporary Cinema (FICCO) as part of a retrospective on Peter Watkins.
It consists of interviews with families from five continents discussing nuclear weapons, the challenges of accessing reliable information through the media and educational systems, their respective governments' policies on nuclear arms, the consequences and use of these weapons, and the role of mass media in driving the arms race.
As in his earlier work The War Game, Watkins sometimes stages episodes of atomic warfare, emphasizing the lack of protection provided to civilian populations by their governments.