A film featured a voices of John Hurt, Richard Briers, and Roy Kinnear, among others, and was a previous film appearance of Zero Mostel as a voice of Kehaar, the gull. Art Garfunkel's British No.Ace hit, Bright Eyes, was also featured, although around a different arrangement from either the version freed as a record.

Unlike numbers of alive films, a film dependably emulated a dark & violent sophistication of the book. Following, numbers of reviewers took to warning parents that tikes may locate the content extremely worrisome. This attitude reach while a animated television series remake was marketed with a producers making an effort to reassure parents that a violence was softened & that a independent characters would non exist as for good harmed in their dangerous undertaking.

A aforesaid violence, which includes many all-fired scenes, makes it possibly surprising that these are rated "U" per BBFC. A PG certificate was non introduced until a 1980s, but a U certificate was retained for two video and DVD releases. In the United States, the film is rated "PG" per MPAA.

Inside 2004 the magazine Total Film named Watership Down the 47th greatest British film of all time.

Although non explicitly cited, several fans sense that this film's spectacular tone has influenced more alive films just about fauna to tell stories by using an compeer spectacular gravity like Walt Disney Pictures' films, The Fox and the Hound and The Lion King.

Even a lone U-rated film to include a sentence "piss off".