Gordon Buchanan
Birthday: Born in 1972-04-10 in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
Deathday: Alive
Gordon Buchanan is a Scottish wildlife film maker. He was born in Dumbarton on 10 April 1972 and brought up on the Isle of Mull. As a child, Buchanan was a fan of David Attenborough's television programmes and Survival, a nature programme.
TV Credits
Natural World
Character: Presenter
Natural 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...
Animals with Cameras
Character: Self
Go where no human cameraman can go and witness a new perspective of the animal kingdom in Animals with Cameras, A Nature Miniseries. The new three-part series journeys into animals’ worlds using custom, state-of-the-art cameras worn by the animals themselves. Capturing never-before-seen behavior, these animal cinematographers help expand human understanding of their habitats and solve mysteries that have eluded scientists until now. Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and a team of pioneering an...
Lost Land of the Tiger
Character: Self - Presenter
Documentary following a team of big cat experts and wildlife filmmakers as they embark upon a dramatic expedition searching for tigers hidden in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan....
Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom
Character: Self - Presenter
For the first time in over 50 years, a team of wildlife film-makers and scientists has been granted access to venture deep into Burma's impenetrable jungles. Their mission is to discover whether these forests are home to iconic animals, rapidly disappearing from the rest of the world - this expedition has come not a moment too soon....
Our Changing Planet
Character: Self - Presenter
An ambitious seven-year natural history series documenting six of the planet's most threatened ecosystems and meeting the people fighting to restore the Earth’s delicate balance....
The Polar Bear Family & Me
Character: Himself - Presenter
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan follows a wild polar bear family over three seasons in Svalbard....
Grizzly Bear Cubs and Me
Character: Presenter
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan helps to rehabilitate six orphaned baby grizzly bears into the Russian wilderness...
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Tribes, Predators, and Me
Character: Presenter
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the remotest regions on three continents to join three tribal families, learning their unique traditional survival skills and how they live alongside the world’s most iconic and dangerous animals....
Into the Wild with Gordon Buchanan
Character: Himself - Presenter
Gordon Buchanan takes some of our best-loved household names on a wildlife adventure where they get up close and personal with some of the UK's most iconic species....
Gorilla Family & Me
Character: Himself - Presenter
Gordon Buchanan travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet a family of rare Grauer's gorillas....
Expedition Borneo
Character: Self - Presenter
Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo....
Lost Land of the Volcano
Character: Self - Presenter
An international team of scientists, cavers and wildlife filmmakers venture deep into the heart of the remote tropical island of New Guinea....
Lost Land of the Jaguar
Character: Self - Presenter
Series combining stunning wildlife with high octane adventure. A team of explorers search the depths of the last great unspoilt jungle on the planet....
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World
Character: Self - Presenter
A new perspective on wildlife at night. A team of biologists and specialist camera crew explore the length of South and Central America to find out how animals have adapted to life in the dark....
Snow Wolf Family and Me
Character: Himself - Presenter
Gordon Buchanan travels to the remote Canadian Arctic in search of wolves that have never seen people....
The Bear Family and Me
Character: Himself - Presenter
Join wildlife cameraman, Gordon Buchanan, as he tries to gain the trust of a wild bear family in a spectacular American wilderness....
Gordon Buchanan: Elephant Family & Me
Character: Himself - Presenter
Gordon Buchanan follows a herd of elephants in the Kenyan wilderness....
Arctic Live
Character: Himself - Presenter
Gordon Buchanan, Kate Humble and Simon Reeve head north to follow the remarkable story of polar bears and the Arctic....
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Equator from the Air
Character: Himself - Presenter
In a defining moment for the natural world, Gordon Buchanan makes an epic journey round the equator - taking to the skies with experts racing to protect both wildlife and people....
Land of the Lost Wolves
Character: Himself - Presenter
Two-part natural history series following the fortunes of one very special pack of wolves as they return to North America's West Coast....
Nature
Character: Host
Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s....
Animal Babies
Character: Self - Narrator
Documentary following young animals as they take their first steps and face their earliest challenges....
Maneater Manhunt
Character: Himself - Presenter
In each and every one of these action packed hours, Gordon Buchanan is on a personal and dangerous mission to really KNOW a MANEATER -an animal that has killed or even eaten a human. But as populations of the planet's apex predators decrease, the number of attacks on humans increases. Buchanan wants to go to the places where man still battles beast and put himself 'directly in the path' of a predator to find out....
Snow Cats and Me
Character: Himself - Presenter
Gordon Buchanan helps cat expert Dr Victor Lukarevsky as he tries - for the first time ever - to rescue and rehabilitate lynx from the lucrative fur and pet trades back to the wild....
Animals at Play
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Young animals love nothing more than play. But science is now revealing the astonishing benefits animals gain from it. This series uncovers the secrets behind their games....
Big Cats 24/7
Character: Self - Presenter
Follow the lives of lions, cheetahs and leopards in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, a place described as one of Africa's last wildernesses....
Cheetah Family & Me
Character: Himself - Presenter
Renowned wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan gets close to wild cheetah in the stunning Kalahari, experiencing first hand the very real dangers these beautiful big cats face....
Movie Credits
Life in Polar Bear Town with Gordon Buchanan
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Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the town of Churchill on the shores of Canada's Hudson Bay, where packs of polar bears gather each Autumn to prepare for their winter hunt....
Snow Dogs
Character: Lui-même
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Amba: The Russian Tiger
Character: Self
Gordon Buchanan heads to Ussuriland, Russia on his most testing trip to date, in search of the Russian tiger. It has the largest unbroken area of forest with the single largest population of tigers anywhere in the world. Anatoly Petrov will be his guide; he spends a lot of time in these forests and is one of the few people who have seen a wild tiger. This beautiful and remarkable film gives a unique insight into one of the most precious animals and forests left on earth....
Super Cute Animals
Character: Himself - Presenter / Narrator
Gordon Buchanan goes to meet the world's cutest animals to reveal their hidden biology, and find out why people have such a strong emotional response to them....
Life In The Snow
Character: Presenter
In a seasonal special, Gordon Buchanan meets the animals who live in nature's winter wonderlands. He reveals their survival secrets, from the polar bear mother who gives her cubs the best possible start in life to the owl that finds food hidden beneath a blanket of snow, plus the plucky penguins that huddle together to keep warm. Gordon also unwraps the lives of our favourite Christmas characters - those wonderful reindeer and our very own robin redbreast!...
Reindeer Family & Me
Character: Himself - Presenter
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to meet the ancient Sami people and the animals they hold so close - reindeer....
My Epic Camel Adventure With Gordon Buchanan
Character: Himself
Gordon Buchanan takes an epic journey across the Gobi Desert on one of the world’s most iconic, yet least understood, animals – camels. ...