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

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

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

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...
In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his...

This film was produced as an extension of a research film on the metamorphosis of the fly. It succes...

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

Sir David Attenborough is in the Swiss Jura Mountains to discover the secrets of a giant. Beneath hi...

Satoshi Kuribayashi and his team filmed the insects for over an astonishing 430 days, resulting in b...

This is the story of a vegetable garden, from the first seeds to the harvest. But this garden is dif...

Ant colonies are one of the wonders of nature: complex, organised… and mysterious. This programme re...
This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.

A documentary showing the lives of an worker ant colony.
Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a ...

With Once Upon a Forest, Luc Jacquet invites the spectator into a never-before-seen world of natural...

Short documentary about true bugs and humans. Short film is also a compassion practice and small jou...
In this playful essay film, the filmmaker investigates our culture's discomfort with all things many...