Robert Davis

Producer

Rob Davis is a critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker, commercials director and co-owner of factual television company, Double Act. For the past twenty years, Rob has directed and exec produced primetime, high-profile factual television for the world's major broadcasters - including BBC, C4, ITV, Sky, NBC, Netflix, Discovery, Disney+, National Geographic and Animal Planet. He has earned a reputation for films with visual flair, humor, strong characters and compelling narratives. Rob has also directed commercial campaigns for some of the world's biggest brands - including Ford, Mastercard, Nokia & Colgate Palmolive. At just 25 Rob won his first award for a powerful deep-access documentary portraying the lives of two expectant mothers diagnosed with cervical cancer (My Baby Or My Life, C4, Royal Television Society Award). The next year he won an Emmy as Associate Producer for NBC's epic drama-documentary history series, Lost Civilizations. By 26, Rob became one of the youngest directors to work on the BBC's flagship documentary series, Modern Times. Since then he has produced over 100 hours of critically acclaimed television on a diverse range of subjects such as Science, Technology, Natural History, Crime, Human Interest and Reality TV. Rob has a passion for making groundbreaking television. He directed the original Child Genius that spawned the acclaimed, long-running Channel 4 series on gifted children; Fat Girls & Feeders - a cult film that inspired the shock-doc genre; the controversial C4 series, Dead Famous DNA, in which scientist Mark Evans scoured the world for body parts of dead famous people to analyze their DNA. He has also devised successful television formats, such as the adventure series, LOST (15 x 30' for C4, 6 x 1 for NBC) viewed as seminal by television critics and industry professionals. In recent years, Rob has turned his attention to Exec Producing UK and US primetime shows for National Geographic, Discovery Networks and Channel 4. His company, Double Act, is one of the UK's fastest growing independent TV companies. Based in Brixton (South London), it is also one of a few British 'true indies' to have broken America - making premium shows for Netflix, Disney+, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, HGTV, Facebook and Animal Planet's Number 1 hit show, Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet.

What are Robert Davis' films like?

Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Ideas and Survival.

Themes

share of theme weight

Ideas

33%

Survival

21%

Morality

13%

Self

12%

Society

11%

Bonds

6%

Power

3%

Nature5 Ambition2 Justice2 Survival2 Community2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Hopeful

5

Tense

4

Thrilling

3

Warm

3

Contemplative

3

Other

4

How their films linger

Hopeful5 Feel-good3 Rousing2 Infuriating2 Unsettling2

How their films end

Bittersweet2
Ambiguous5
Cyclical1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Robert Davis' films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 9 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on discovery+ (5).

Subscription and free streaming for Robert Davis' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

15 credits, 9 with a MovieCove page.

Confessions of a Steroid Gang (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Show 3 episodes · Executive Producer
Virgin Island (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Show 6 episodes · Executive Producer
Concorde: The Race for Supersonic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Show 2 episodes · Producer
Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster(2023)
Show 3 episodes · Executive Producer
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all shows
The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist(2022)
Show Producer
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all shows
Shark Gangs(2021)
Executive Producer
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Shark Academy(2021)
Show Producer
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Yellowstone Supervolcano: American Doomsday(2021)
Producer
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Jungle Animal Rescue(2020)
Show Producer
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina(2020)
Show Producer
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all shows
Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet(2015)
Show Producer
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows
Game of Stones(2014)
Show Producer
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows
Fat Girls and Feeders (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Director
Modern Times (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Show 1 episode · Director
Rust Hunters (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Show 1 episode · Executive Producer