Watership Down

Watership Down

1978 | 1h 35m | Adventure, Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Martin Rosen

CAST

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PRODUCERS

Martin Rosen

WRITERS

Martin Rosen

Host Intros

02:16
Alicia Malone Intro -- Watership Down (1978)
Intro Aired: May 2019
TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Watership Down, 1978.

Related Videos

02:32
Watership Down (1978) -- (Movie Clip) The Man Thing Killed It
Clip
Episodes with the band of rabbits who have fled the warren because of the premonitions of Fiver (voice by Richard Briers), John Hurt as leader Hazel, Michael Graham Cox as Bigwig, Simon Cadell as bigwig, from the animated adaptation of the celebrated novel, Watership Down, 1978.
03:47
Watership Down (1978) -- (Movie Clip) The Great Frith Made The World
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Not from the novel, the entire origin myth, which is derived from the original writings of author Richard Adams, Michael Hordern narrating, opening writer, director and producer Martin Rosens animated 1978 adaptation of Watership Down.
03:31
Watership Down (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Something Oppressive
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Introduction of the two rabbit brothers, John Hurt the voice of Hazel, and Richard Briers the more anxious Fiver, who senses something bad coming, in director Martin Rosens animated feature, based on the Richard Adams novel, Watership Down, 1978.

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