Amazing World of the Mini Beasts

Microcosmos

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting ne

1996

Groenkijkers

2023

The Hellstrom Chronicle

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

1971

The Marvelous Wild World of the Vegetable Garden

This is the story of a vegetable garden, from the first seeds to the harvest. But this garden is different, because here the gardener has decided to b

2022

Hatching by Cirque du Soleil

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

2013

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

Untangling the web of cultural and historical ties underlying Japan's deep fascination with insects.

2009

The Pink Egg

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror m

2017

The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs

The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs, follows host Ruud Kleinpaste, as he embarks on an entomological odyssey around the globe in search of the ultima

2009

I Want to Stay an Ant

Satoshi Kuribayashi and his team filmed the insects for over an astonishing 430 days, resulting in breathtaking images and scenes from a still fairly

2015

La vispa Teresa

La vispa Teresa (“Lively Theresa”) is based on a well known song; a girl, ten, catches a butterfly and all the other insects intervene to save it.

1939

Edwardian Insects on Film

In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the father

2013

The Acrobatic Fly

Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a mi

1910

The Hidden World

The Hidden World is a 1958 American science documentary film produced by Robert Snyder and narrated by Gregory Peck. The film is about insects. It was

1958

The Mystery of Marriage

The courtship rituals of animals and plants are compared to those of contemporary society, with educational and frequently humorous results.

1931

Learning To See

Struggling with a mid-life crisis, Robert Oelman leaves his psychology career in the early 1990s to photograph rare and exotic insects. After moving f

2016

De-Bugged

This documentary focuses specifically on insects. Giving you an unbelieveably up close and intimate view of the many unique secrets of the bug world.

2018

Planet Ant: Life Inside The Colony

Ant colonies are one of the wonders of nature: complex, organised… and mysterious. This programme reveals the secret, underground world of the ant col

2013

City of Wax

City of Wax is a 1934 American short documentary film produced by Horace and Stacy Woodard about the life of a bee. It won the Oscar at the 7th Academ

1934

Microscopic Mysteries

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.

1932

Jewels

A story about survival, belief in the physical memory of things, as if still-life was always part of the scientific possibility or of the nightmare of

2013