John Downer Productions

An award-winning media company specialising in wildlife television, feature films and commercials

John Downer Productions

An award-winning media company specialising in wildlife television, feature films and commercials

Earthflight

'South America' - BBC One - Thursday 19th January at 8pm

Polar Bear – Spy on the Ice

Spycams sneak within a paw’s swipe of the world’s largest land predators - Polar bears. Polar Bear Spy on the Ice gets closer than ever before to these charismatic bears and reveals their astonishing intelligence and curiosity.

Swarm – Nature’s Incredible Invasions

Thousands of killer bees invade a football pitch, millions of mice wipe out a harvest, huge fish shoals leaping into boats …animals can reach such immense numbers that they take over our lives. From the outside these superswarms are the stuff of nightmares, but from the inside they’re things of beauty.

Latest News: Our new 6-part series Earthflight begins Thursday 8pm on BBC 1. For more information visit our Earthflight page.

John Downer Productions is a media company specialising in wildlife television, feature films and commercials. It has won numerous international awards for its innovative approach to filmmaking. It made its name by abandoning the traditional style of nature documentary and pioneering a highly inventive subjective approach. Through the use of new dramatic techniques it was possible, for the first time, to plunge the audience into the animal world.