Peter Rowe (born 1947) is a Canadianfilmmaker and author specializing in themes of history and exploration. He is the producer of the 49-part television seriesAngry Planet, which airs on streaming and television networks around the world.^[1] His latest book,Out There – The Batshit Antics of the World’s Great Explorers was published in 2023. His latest film,Water Crazy was released in 2025.

Rowe has produced and/or directed over 190 films and television shows, including 10 features.

His latest feature-length film is the 2025 release,Water Crazy. (2025)

Rowe’s feature films includeTreasure Island starringJack Palance andKevin Zegers,Lost! starringKen Welsh,Michael Hogan andHelen Shaver, andThe Best Bad Thing starringGeorge Takei.^[2]

He has directed numerous documentaries includingBeyond the Red Wall, Art War,Joshua Slocum: New World Columbus, andPopcorn With Maple Syrup: Film in Canada from Eh to Zed.

His 2013 filmShipwrecked on a Great Lake is based onJames Fenimore Cooper's book,Ned Myers; or, a Life Before the Mast.

Television series he has directed includeAngry Planet,On the Run,Super Humans,Ready or Not,E.N.G.,African Skies,Exploring Under Sail, andFast Track.

His wilderness filmmaking has taken place in over 40 countries and many far-flung corners of the world including numerous activevolcanoes, severalhurricanes andtornadoes,Antarctica,Cape Horn, the CanadianArctic, and theSahara andArabian Deserts.

Rowe has also performed as an actor, most recently playingHunter S. Thompson in the TV biography seriesFinal 24.^[3]

He appeared in the documentary filmRewind This! (2013) about the impact ofVHS on the film industry and home video.

• Adventures in Filmmaking, Pinewood Independent Publishing, (2013) chronicles forty years of Rowe's life, adventures, and wilderness filmmmaking around the world.

• Music vs The Man, Armin Lear Press, (2020) chronicles the battles between musicians and the authorities—police, border guards, mayors, city councils, the FBI, the Kremlin.

• Ablaze: 10 Years that Shook the World, Pinewood Press, (2021) recounts the revolutionary, incendiary era of the late 60s and early 70s, including the birth of the new passions of the era — Black power, theenvironmental movement,women's liberation, gay pride, the animal rights movement, sexual revolution, and the antiwar movement.

• Out There: The Batshit Antics of the World's Greatest Explorers, Sutherland House Books, (2023) gives a totally original account of the extraordinary and often lunatic explorations ofSir John Franklin,Mungo Park,Ernest Shackleton,David Livingstone,Sir Richard Francis Burton, and many more.

• Gold Remi Award (2015) Houston International Film Festival (Shipwrecked on a Great Lake)
• Stefansson Medal (2014) The Stefansson Medal honours outstanding contributions to the cause of exploration and/or field sciences in Canada or internationally by exceptionally meritorious members of the Canadian Chapter of the Explorers Club. Medal named for Manitoban Arctic explorer and ethnologistVilhjalmur Stefansson.

• Canadian Society of Cinematographers (2010) Award for Lifestyle/Reality Cinematography (Angry Planet "Hurricane Triple Threat")^[4]
• Gold Special Jury Award, (2001) Houston Film Festival (Joshua Slocum: New World Columbus)
• Gold Medal, Worldfest Film Festival (1999) (Treasure Island)

• Best Film, Montreal Children’s Film Festival (1998) (The Best Bad Thing)

• Explorers Club (Fellow, Past Chair-Canadian Chapter (Ontario/Nunavut)
• Directors Guild of Canada (Ontario Chairman, 2001–2003)
• Canadian Society of Cinematographers
• Writers Guild of Canada
• Royal Canadian Geographic Society (Fellow)
• Founding Board Member,Whistler Film Festival
• Founding Board Member, Explorers Club Film Festival
• Lecturer in Post-Graduate Film Production,Sheridan College (2002–2003)
• Lecturer in Film Production, Harris Institute for the Arts (1995–1997)^[5]

Rowe chronicled his life and adventures in his 2013 memoirAdventures in Filmmaking.

• Peter Rowe atIMDb

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• Canadian documentary film directors

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