He worked with Louis Malle to make "Humain, trop humain" in 1973, a film about conditions in a Citroën car plant. Vautier directed "Peuple en marche", which gives the history of the National Liberation Army and the Algerian War, in 1963. Another Algerian War film, "Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès" (1972), won the International Federation of Film Critics Award at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. He made over 180 films, many of them destroyed by the French government. Several of Vautier's other films were presented at Cannes, including "Mourir pour des images", "Comment on devient un ennemi de l'intérieur", "Les trois cousins", and "Vacances tunisiennes". In January 1973, he went on hunger strike to protest film censorship. He received the Order of the Ermine in 2000. On 4 January 2015, he died at a hospital in Cancale, Brittany.