Ireland's Wild River
2014 · 53 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 64 VOTES · DIR. John Murray
Overview
The Shannon is Ireland’s greatest geographical landmark and longest river. It is both a barrier and highway, a silver ribbon holding back the rugged landscapes of the west from the gentler plains to the east. On its journey south, the Shannon passes through a huge palette of rural landscapes, where on little-known backwaters, Ireland’s wild animals and plants still thrive as almost nowhere else. For a year, wildlife cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson lives on the river, camping on its banks, exploring its countless tributaries in a traditional canoe, following the river from dawn to dusk through the four seasons, on a quest to film the natural history of the Shannon as it has never been seen or heard or experienced before.
Dialogue Timeline — 602 lines
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00:00:08 ¶¶
00:03:15 A time to declare your intentions.
00:04:54 This place should be resounding to the cries
00:06:36 need to breed
00:07:44 a journey from source to sea
00:09:15 look as romantic as the castle ruins?
00:11:37 and that's because
00:12:47 screaming at the water
00:14:22 at this time of year.
00:17:18 People call them the barracuda of the Shannon.
00:18:42 You can see an increase in temperature.
00:20:11 a little bit, sort of, fed up with life.
00:21:33 you'll end up getting weak and not making it.
00:23:51 And here on the Shannon they've been making
00:25:01 He doesn't know that
00:27:33 that sort of somehow gets into your mind
00:30:19 it just, suddenly, just goes quiet.
00:35:09 sort of raw -- raw nuts and that sort of thing.
00:37:59 to keep them going for the winter months.
00:40:37 They're vegetarians, they come here to feed on the grass
00:44:11 but for me it's the croaking of the frog --
00:46:19 The poor females, you got to feel sorry for them
00:48:48 come together to form bigger flocks.
00:51:50 But it's our river.