ABOUT JOHN
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
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Credits and photos from TMDB.
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On Cineora8 of 23 titles
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IMDb rating of each title they made on Cineora, by year.
- Titles on Cineora
- 8
- Average IMDb
- 7.9
- Highest rated
- NatureIMDb 8.9
- Working since
- 1982
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The 2020s
4 titles
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Serengeti River Crossing
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The 2010s
12 titles · IMDb 8.0 on averageSeriesCreator
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The 2000s
4 titles · IMDb 6.2 on average
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The 1980s
3 titles · IMDb 8.9 on average
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The people who keep turning up in John’s titles.
