Writing
Robert Macfarlane
Known for
Writing
Credits
16 titles
Known for
7.4Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
Natural World
1983
8.2Live coverage as our wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.
Winterwatch
2013
10.0An immersive audiovisual experience using global Earth systems datasets to explore water as the connective tissue of life revealing its continuous movement through rivers, oceans, landscapes and living beings as one planetary circulation.
Water Body
2026
6.4A cinematic and musical odyssey that explores the remarkable relationship between humans and rivers. Throughout history, rivers have shaped our landscapes and our journeys; flowed through our cultures and dreams. RIVER takes its audience on a journey through space and time; spanning six continents, and drawing on extraordinary contemporary cinematography, including satellite filming, the film shows rivers on scales and from perspectives never seen before. Its union of image, music and sparse, the poetic script will create a film that is both dream-like and powerful, honouring the wildness of rivers but also recognizes their vulnerability.
River
2021
6.9An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, that explores humankind's fascination with high places.
Mountain
2017
5.3Adapted from Robert Macfarlane's bestselling book, this mesmerising documentary journeys into worlds seldom seen by human eyes.
Underland
2026
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
10.0An immersive audiovisual experience using global Earth systems datasets to explore water as the connective tissue of life revealing its continuous movement through rivers, oceans, landscapes and living beings as one planetary circulation.
Water Body
2026
NROne of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland in 1942. His life is as compelling and enigmatic as his art, set against the dramatic wartime locations that inspire him. This film brings to life this unique and still grossly undervalued British artist caught in the crossfire of war 80 years ago, whose legacy largely sank without trace, until now…
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
2022
2010s · 4 titles
An essay drama film looking at Edward Thomas' attempted suicide a few years before he was killed in World War One.
The Attempt
2016
NRA film adaptation of the Holloway book by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards. The film was made alongside Macfarlane who has written and recorded its voice-over, Donwood who allowed the use of many of his Holloway inspired prints, composer Richard Skelton who has recorded an entirely new piece of musical score for it, and sound artist, James Bulley who let us use his Holloway recording project. More info can be found here: https://celluloidwickerman.com/2015/01/19/filming-in-the-holloways/
Holloway
2015
Film response to Colin Riley's Weather Words as part of the In Place project. Weather Words is a musical response to the many different words for weather as collected by Robert Macfarlane in his book Landmarks. For more information, visit www.inplace.co.uk www.celluloidwickerman.com
Weather Words
2018
Ness is a Super-8 adaptation of the book by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. It concerns the strange, folkloric reverberations surrounding the ex-weapons testing facility, Orford Ness.
Ness
2019
Series credits
7.4Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
Natural World
1983
8.2Live coverage as our wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.
Winterwatch
2013
Behind the camera
10.0An immersive audiovisual experience using global Earth systems datasets to explore water as the connective tissue of life revealing its continuous movement through rivers, oceans, landscapes and living beings as one planetary circulation.
Water Body
2026
6.4A cinematic and musical odyssey that explores the remarkable relationship between humans and rivers. Throughout history, rivers have shaped our landscapes and our journeys; flowed through our cultures and dreams. RIVER takes its audience on a journey through space and time; spanning six continents, and drawing on extraordinary contemporary cinematography, including satellite filming, the film shows rivers on scales and from perspectives never seen before. Its union of image, music and sparse, the poetic script will create a film that is both dream-like and powerful, honouring the wildness of rivers but also recognizes their vulnerability.
River
2021
6.9An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, that explores humankind's fascination with high places.
Mountain
2017
5.3Adapted from Robert Macfarlane's bestselling book, this mesmerising documentary journeys into worlds seldom seen by human eyes.
Underland
2026
NRFilmed entirely from the air, Upstream follows the course of the River Dee in Scotland, all the way to its source in the Cairngorm mountains, the highest of any river in Britain. With a prose poem written especially for the film by Robert Macfarlane and an original score by the Oscar-nominated composer Hauschka.
Upstream
2019
NRA film adaptation of the Holloway book by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards. The film was made alongside Macfarlane who has written and recorded its voice-over, Donwood who allowed the use of many of his Holloway inspired prints, composer Richard Skelton who has recorded an entirely new piece of musical score for it, and sound artist, James Bulley who let us use his Holloway recording project. More info can be found here: https://celluloidwickerman.com/2015/01/19/filming-in-the-holloways/
Holloway
2015
Film response to Colin Riley's Weather Words as part of the In Place project. Weather Words is a musical response to the many different words for weather as collected by Robert Macfarlane in his book Landmarks. For more information, visit www.inplace.co.uk www.celluloidwickerman.com
Weather Words
2018
Ness is a Super-8 adaptation of the book by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. It concerns the strange, folkloric reverberations surrounding the ex-weapons testing facility, Orford Ness.
Ness
2019
