Bird Movies

An experimental film about a black market surgery. Exploring the meaning of freedom, pain and relief.

When an ornithologist’s funding gets cut, her nurturing of abandoned bird eggs leads to a transformation as her marriage crumbles.

When a female barn-owl's home - an old disused barn - is demolished, she has to seek a new place to live. On the way, flying through forests and...

Go deep into the woods to explore the lives of a unique avian family. Woodpeckers come in 239 species and live on every continent except Antarctica...

David Attenborough narrates the natural history of hummingbirds.

In the shadows of a Cold War Military depot, a colony of pint-sized predators faces an uncertain future as one owl biologist races to save it from...

A depiction of an egret mother feeding her babies.

Magnús Magnússon´s captivating footage gives viewers the opportunity to experience Icelandic nature in a unique way. The film...

The voices of nightingales have lit up the forests of England at night every spring for thousands of years. In this film, award-winning folk singer...

What do we have to learn from dead things and the people who love them? For some, vulture culture offers a deeper connection to nature. For others,...

When a young boy shoots at a bird and misses, he embarks on a search to find where the bullet went.

Fanatical birdwatchers have descended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hopes of finding the celebrated Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Declared...

Is there a connection between animal sounds and the music that humans create? Using a surprising and wide variety of evidence from the animal kingdom...

Cuckoos are brood parasites who they lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species, a clever trick that spares the rearing and feeding of their...

A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.

Sir Ernest Shackleton is a poignant absence in this fragment from the closing chapter in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The...

After a short history on bees and bee-keeping, we find Windy the bear's attempts to steal honey from a bee hive (he is teaching his son the "right"...