Roger Munns

Primetime Emmy nominee

Roger was a principal Cinematographer on the BBC's Blue Planet II series, Director of Photography on Apple's Under the Sea Screensavers, and a sequence cameraman on David Attenborough's Seven Worlds, One Planet. He is a British Emmy(TM) and BAFTA award-winning underwater cameraman, based in Sabah, Malaysia. Specialising in Natural history documentary film-making, Roger logged over 600hrs underwater as a principal Cinematographer on the Blue Planet II series. He filmed ten different stories for four episodes - One Ocean, Coral Reefs, Open Ocean and Our Blue Planet. You can read more about that on Roger's website. As an Underwater DP for over 20 years Roger has experience working in diverse locations and habitats from the Antarctic to the tropics, open ocean to coral reefs. While enjoying the challenge of filming megafauna, such as manta rays and blue whales, his specialty is crafting complex, character-led stories. Notable sequences include 'Percy the Tuskfish' smashing clams on an anvil for Blue Planet II, the first filming of the humpback whale heat-run in Tonga for One Life and a story about human interactions with the largest fish in the sea - Whale Sharks, for Seven Worlds, One Planet Roger is an excellent freediver and has logged over 500hrs on various rebreathers including his rEvo closed circuit rebreather. He owns and operates an 8K Red DSMC2 Helium cinema camera housed in a Gates Deep Weapon underwater housing and has worked extensively with lighting and grip underwater

What are Roger Munns' films like?

Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Ideas and Survival.

Themes

share of theme weight

Ideas

46%

Survival

23%

Society

12%

Self

9%

Bonds

6%

Power

4%

Nature7 Survival5 Community3 Hope4 Purpose2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Contemplative

8

Warm

2

Thrilling

2

Hopeful

2

Joyful

1

Other

3

How their films linger

Hopeful6 Thought-provoking6 Rousing2

How their films end

Bittersweet4
Ambiguous1
Cyclical3

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 Roger Munns' films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on HBO Max (3).

Also on these channels

BBC Select1 title, show their title on BBC Select
Get.factual1 title, show their title on Get.factual

Subscription and free streaming for Roger Munns' 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

8 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page.

Underdogs(2025)
Show Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Our Oceans(2024)
Show Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows
Eden: Untamed Planet(2021)
Show Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
A World of Calm(2020)
Show Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
Hostile Planet(2019)
Show Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Seven Worlds One Planet(2019)
Show Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows
Blue Planet II(2017)
Show Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Nature's Greatest Secret: The Coral Triangle(2014)
Show Cinematographer
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)

Career shape

Across their 8 MovieCove titles from 2014 to 2025.

Highest rated

Seven Worlds One Planet (2019)

Midcredits 99^th

By role

only this rolewith another role

Cinematography8 of 8 · 90^th

By decade

2010s4 · crew2020s4 · crew

Counts over their MovieCove titles; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles, shown from 5 scored.

Awards

Nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2018, Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program.

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

Who does Roger Munns work with?

People who share at least 2 of Roger Munns' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Ted Giffords shares the most, 4.