Animation· 1978· Adventure

Watership Down

by Martin Rosen, John Hubley

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  • Rabbits
  • The Berkshire Downs

Richard Adams drew his rabbits' behaviour from R. M. Lockley's study The Private Life of the Rabbit and set their journey on the real downs of Berkshire, which the film follows, painted from the actual landscape.

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Watership Down

A rabbit has a vision of his warren's destruction, and the few who believe him leave to cross open country looking for a new home, meeting a totalitarian warren on the way. Adapted from Richard Adams's novel and notorious for how much violence a children's certificate turned out to cover.

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