Ants - Nature's Secret Power

Microscopic Mysteries

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

1932

Insekten, Superhelden auf sechs Beinen

2017

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

The Hellstrom Chronicle

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

1971

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

Das große Insektensterben

2018

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

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

Groenkijkers

2023

Insecticide, mon amour

2015

Hatching by Cirque du Soleil

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

2013

Collar de moscas

2002

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 Adventures of a Blue Fly

This film was produced as an extension of a research film on the metamorphosis of the fly. It successively shows the hatching of the eggs, the nutriti

1954

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

True Bug

Short documentary about true bugs and humans. Short film is also a compassion practice and small journey from human perspective to other playful ways

2022

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

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

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

2009

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

Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants

Sir David Attenborough is in the Swiss Jura Mountains to discover the secrets of a giant. Beneath his feet lies a vast network of tunnels and chambers

2017