Insect Movies

Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find that he's been transformed into a giant insect. This particular Franz Kafka adaptation is seen from...

"Incredible," "beautiful" and "exotic" are only a few of the words (besides "eek!") that describe Bugz. Everything from bugs you'd recognize to bugs...

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...

The Last Bumblebee is a solution-based documentary featuring interviews with scientists, and environmentalists discussing the importance of...

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...

A little story about the backyard critters you might see in Tasmania, and the things they might be doing.

A small experimental short movie that shows how humans are nothing but insects in the right perspective

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

The utterings of a faceless narrator are intercut with the tale of an estranged woodland inhabitant, who makes a peculiar discovery.

A macro look at the minute creatures that live among us. A world that is terrifyingly brutal yet amazingly beautiful. Struggles to the death,...

An ant colony finds that the strange new food source they've discovered may be something more of a curse than a boon.

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

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...

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

In a world where capitalism has gone too far, insects work side by side with humans. A cockroach accountant lives a miserable life, trapped in a...

The cicada, an insect that I always associate with Japanese summers spent with family, has become a symbol of comfort for me. Its presence evokes a...

Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the...