BE KIND, REWINDWatership Down is a 1978 animation film directed by Martin Rosen, certificate PG, 92 minutes long. To own it on Apple TV in the UK cost £9.99 on 14 October 2026, or £3.49 to rent.
Richard Adams’s rabbits flee their doomed warren across the Hampshire downs. A generation of British children was traumatised by it on Easter afternoons; it is beautiful and genuinely frightening.
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Rating, length and today’s prices: Apple’s British iTunes listing, checked 2026-10-14. Poster © its owner, shown only to identify the film.
