John Downer Trailers
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A passionate zoologist, John has been making nature documentaries for the BBC for over 30 years. He made his name by abandoning the traditional style of nature documentaries and pioneering a highly inventive subjective approach using new technology and dramatic story-telling techniques
His innovative approach to filmmaking has brought him numerous international awards for series such as Supersense, Weird Nature, Earthflight and Penguins – Spy in the Huddle. Never afraid to experiment, his first music video, for Peter Gabriel, even won a Grammy
Most Popular John Downer Trailers
Total trailers found: 14
21 June 2004
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
22 February 2011
Shot mainly using spy cameras, this film gets closer than ever before to the world's greatest land predator.
13 January 2007
Each year over 1.2 million wildebeest travel across the vast Serengeti plains and Kenya's Masai Mara on a 1,800 kilometer circular journey, relentlessly followed by every big African predator.
26 November 2013
Nature documentary that takes a breathtaking flight on the wings of birds across six continents and experiences some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view.
22 April 2021
Serengeti River Crossing is a stunningly immersive experience that takes the viewer to the heart of Africa to witness an epic natural drama from a new perspective.
23 December 2015
A chronicle of the birth and development of one penguin chick, born late and smaller than any of its fellow toddlers.
02 January 1985
A pair of space travellers arrive on Earth to study the planet's lifeforms, landing in an English garden.
17 June 2014
This feature-length RealD™ 3D experience was filmed with revolutionary aerial devices and techniques to fly right alongside birds.
30 November 2004
Attenborough's team travels the globe for up-close looks at polar bears, grizzlies, pandas and other fascinating bear species.
30 December 2018
The franchise returns with a brand new wintertime entry about animals that live in the coldest places in the world.
01 January 1988
Smell your way across an ocean as a salmon does. See, through the multi-aspected eye of a fly, what a human hand looks like when it is about to strike.
21 May 2014
A look at some of the planet's great gatherings, creatures that come together in inconceivable numbers - sometimes in millions, billions, and even trillions.
06 October 2012
More than three years in the making, Earthflight uses state-of-the-art technology and sophisticated camera techniques to bring the world to us as seen by birds.
