Jewels

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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