Plot Synopsis:

With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, 'Watership Down' is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
Special features:
• Defining a Style (2005): short featurette about the film’s aesthetic
• A Conversation with the filmmakers (2005)
• Storyboard comparison
• Super 8 version of the film
• Trailer
• TV Spots
• Newly created optional English subtitles for the Deaf and partial hearing
• Newly created audio description track
• Double-sided poster featuring the original UK quad and the 2022 re-release artwork
• A set of four postcards featuring iconic scenes from the film
• Perfect-bound book featuring new writing on the film by Jez Stewart and Catherine Lester
• Newly commissioned sleeve art by Andrew Bannister