
Gordon Buchanan
Acting
Biography
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.
Known For

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
The One Show

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.
Nature

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 by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
Natural World

Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.
Pointless Celebrities

Springwatch is an annual BBC television series which charts the fortunes of British wildlife during the changing of the seasons in the United Kingdom.
Springwatch

Live coverage as our wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.
Winterwatch

A spontaneous, sometimes humorous look at UK’s wildlife in autumn through conversations with experts and passionate amateurs.
Autumnwatch

Follow the lives of lions, cheetahs and leopards in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, a place described as one of Africa's last wildernesses.
Big Cats 24/7

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.
Lost Land of the Tiger

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 Volcano

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.
Our Changing Planet

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.
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World

Series combining stunning wildlife with high octane adventure. A team of explorers search the depths of the last great unspoilt jungle on the planet.
Lost Land of the Jaguar

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.
Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom

Join wildlife cameraman, Gordon Buchanan, as he tries to gain the trust of a wild bear family in a spectacular American wilderness.
The Bear Family and Me

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.
Tribes, Predators, and Me

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 animal behaviorists join forces to explore stories of animal lives “told” by the animals themselves. The cameras are built custom by camera design expert Chris Watts to fit on the animals unobtrusively and to be easily removed at a later point. From this unique vantage point, experience the secret lives of nine different animal species. Sprint across the savanna with a cheetah, plunge into the ocean with a seal and swing through the trees with a chimpanzee.
Animals with Cameras

Gordon Buchanan, Kate Humble and Simon Reeve head north to follow the remarkable story of polar bears and the Arctic.
Arctic Live

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.
Equator from the Air

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo.