FILM

Watership Down (1978)

Name: Watership Down
Director: Martin Rosen
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama
Released: 1978-10-14
Cast: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Ralph Richardson

Film · 1978 · 92 min · PG · Adventure · Animation · Drama

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you, they will kill you... but first they must catch you.

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

Directed by Martin Rosen

Starring John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Ralph Richardson, Simon Cadell, Terence Rigby, Roy Kinnear

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Release dates in the United States

In cinemas	31 October 1978
Digital release	Not listed
Physical release	Not listed
First release anywhere	14 October 1978

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