Douglas Black Heaton is a composer writing music for TV, film, advertising, and games. His recent work includes the BAFTA and EMMY award winning "Simon Schama: The Road To Auschwitz", the BBC's "Touring Toolshed" with Sir David Jason, Jay Blades' "Through Time" Series for C5 and "Monty Don's Japanese Gardens" for BBC2, "Hurricane Man" for Discovery Science, "Danny & Mick" for CBBC, "Stories from Backwoods" for RTE/YLE, "Royals Next Door" for RTE, "Momolu and Friends" for YLE, "Angry Birds Slingshot Stories" for YouTube/Netflix and "The Last Wtiness" for Universal Production Music. Doug has scored more than 300 episodes of Angry Birds animation, including Piggy Tales and Angry Birds Blues, as well as music for the Angry Birds Seasons mobile game and playing guitar in the Angry Birds Movie, accompanying Peter "Tyrion Lannister" Dinklage, Josh "Olaf The Snowman" Gad and Jason "Ted Lasso" Sudeikis singing The Mighty Eagle song. Other notable TV composition work includes BBC1's Garden Rescue (now in it's 11th season) the Kate Humble fronted Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth for BBC2, Channel 4's Scandimania, from River Cottage's Hugh-Fearnley Whittingstall, BBC2's World's Greatest Food Markets, Dambusters' Greatest Escape and Treasures of the Jade Empire, both for Channel 4's Secret History strand. Douglas has scored promos for John Lewis, L'Oreal, Nokia and Moomins as well as music for Angry Birds tie ups with Star Wars, Lego, Transformers, and Shakira. He is also a tutor at Thinkspace Education, an online film scoring school run by Guy Michelmore.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Composer, also actor
- 8 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all
What are Douglas Black Heaton's films like?
Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
Light 1 · Serious 0 · Dark 4
Grounded 4 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 2
Steady 4 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 1
Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 2
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 2
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
- Heraldas Santa Claus in Piggy Tales (2014)
Moods and endings
- Happy2
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous2
- 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 Douglas Black Heaton's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
- PBS Documentaries, show their 2 titles on PBS Documentaries
- Acorn TV, show their title on Acorn TV
- BBC Select, show their title on BBC Select
- BritBox, show their title on BritBox
- MagellanTV, show their title on MagellanTV
- Midnight Pulp, show their title on Midnight Pulp
- XiveTV Documentaries, show their title on XiveTV Documentaries
Subscription and free streaming for Douglas Black Heaton's 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
12 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
The Son (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Britain's Biggest Dig(2020)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Monty Don's Japanese Gardens (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Chinese Chariots Revealed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Angry Birds Blues(2017)
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all shows
Confucius(2015)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Hiroshima: The Aftermath(2015)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Ready 2 Die(2014)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Piggy Tales(2014)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all shows
Career shape
A full career of 8 titles from 2014 to 2021.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.
How do Douglas Black Heaton's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 87th percentile, the median of all 5; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 79th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th3
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 8 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Cult Classic2
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Broadly Agreed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Douglas Black Heaton work with?
People who share at least 2 of Douglas Black Heaton's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Hugo Macgregor shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Hugo MacgregorShared titles: Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On (2025), Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief (2024), Confucius (2015)See all 3 shared titles with Hugo Macgregor
- Thomas LepeskaShared titles: Angry Birds Blues (2017), Piggy Tales (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Thomas Lepeska
Cinematographers and editors
- Richard WilkinsonShared titles: Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On (2025), Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Richard Wilkinson
- Brendan EastonShared titles: Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief (2024), Confucius (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Brendan Easton
- Duncan RochfortShared titles: Angry Birds Blues (2017), Piggy Tales (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Duncan Rochfort
- Jason HancoxShared titles: Angry Birds Blues (2017), Piggy Tales (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Jason Hancox
Producers
- Bill LockeShared titles: Britain's Biggest Dig (2020), Confucius (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Bill Locke
- Joonas RissanenShared titles: Angry Birds Blues (2017), Piggy Tales (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Joonas Rissanen
- Mikael HedShared titles: Angry Birds Blues (2017), Piggy Tales (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Mikael Hed
- Mikko SetäläShared titles: Angry Birds Blues (2017), Piggy Tales (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Mikko Setälä