Bird Movies

Portrait of Hermann Heinzel.

With their charismatic faces and extraordinary head-turning ability, owls are one of our best-loved birds. And yet it's rare to catch more than a...

An encounter at Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa shot in 16mm by JMG+PP.

Narrated by David Attenborough, this film explores the private life of a pair of Barn Owls. Often associated with folklore and magic, there can be...

The Doku follows the snow owls quest to survive winter. The animals travel from up north to central Europe and back. During their travels...

A clever parrot becomes the sole witness to a violent murder and may hold the answers when it mimics the victim's final words.

Stunning stories from the unusual life of the Ural owl, a mysterious nocturnal predator that can fearlessly attack even humans. Set over a period of...

Director Jörg Adolph accompanies ornithologist Dr. Norbert Schäffer, chairman of the Bavarian Society for the Protection of Birds (LBV), on...

Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature...

After a mysterious stranger shows up at Gray's doorstep holding the corpse of a dead bird, an impromptu funeral changes the way Gray views herself...

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...

A silent ornithology film from Bray Studios

In the remote deserts of Australia lives an elusive nocturnal bird called the Night Parrot. Virtually nothing is known of its ecology. It disappeared...

The picture shows various kinds of birds in their natural environments, and in their natural colors, and at such close range that the very eyes of...

The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it and drinks up milk, but there isn't any cow. Her father...

Along New Zealand’s South Islands runs the mighty chain of the Southern Alps, where large and beautiful glaciers and Ice-falls abound among 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"...

By some measures, it’s a tiny country, just .03% of the Earth’s landmass. But when it comes to wildlife, Costa Rica is an ecological...