Insect Movies

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

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...

A 1983 short film directed by Eduard Nazarov about an ant who gets blown away with the wind from its home and the adventures it goes through in...

Big sister Krista angrily wishes her little brother Tyler would just turn into a bug and buzz off. She gets her wish, courtesy of Mrs. Pickle Nickle,...

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

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...

UNIVERSUM cameraman Wolfgang Thaler and Bert Hoelldobler, a leading authority on ants, bring us face-to-face with the mysterious world of these...

A disillusioned priest must deal with the disappearance of one of his pinned insects: a Prosopocoilus savagei.

An ant works to prepare for winter while a drunken grasshopper plays his violin and dances away his time. When the snow arrives, the grasshopper...

An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab.

Over the course of evolution, insects have developed abilities that amaze us humans. The small "notched animals", the Latin translation of the word...

Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see...

A young woman comes down with a mysterious illness that infests upon her stomach.

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

On planet Sigma, enormous creatures are trapped inside the ice. And then, all of a sudden explosions erupt from subterranean volcanoes. The ice...

In this playful essay film, the filmmaker investigates our culture's discomfort with all things many-legged.

An exterminator discovers a strange, out-of-the-ordinary world full of insect-animal hybrids after falling through a large crack while he was doing...

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