Bird Movies

A newly born bird is excited to explore the world. On its adventure, it finds others on its way, but doesn't understand a word of what is asked of...

Bird's are often considered 'rats of the sky'. That's just not true. A short documentary on the Birds of Brighton.

On the unspoilt banks of the Save River lies the Lonjsko Polje Nature Park. Numerous species have made this green setting their home. But the star of...

Two neigbors inhabit an idiomatic world and discover affection.

A Secrets of Life short about the tawny owl.

This film tells the story of David Rothenberg’s efforts to gather together an international band of musicians to cross the species line and...

Footage of the seabirds found in the Shetland Isles. One of a group of films made by Jenny Brown and bought by John Grierson for the GPO Film Library...

A Gorilla is surprised as a bird crashes next to him and seemingly can't fly away anymore.

Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds....

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

Journey to far-flung islands off Africa, South America, Australia and Oceania for a look at the bird species that lived alongside our ancestors.

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

This intimate portrait film follows master falconer Rodney Stotts on his mission to build a bird sanctuary and to provide access to nature for his...

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, a pair of white gyrfalcons and a pack of Arctic wolves are struggling to raise their young. As the...

Documentary about finches of the Galápagos Islands.

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...

After a premonition of an unusual bird, a father loses his voice. His daughter undertakes a search to rediscover him, through an intimate narrative...

Presented as a kind of docu-fiction, the film shows training maneuvers by the young mountaineers of the Scuola Centrale Militare di Alpinismo...

David Attenborough narrates this close up look at these tiny pollinators captured in flight as never before. Acrobats of the air - flying jewels -...

A depiction of an egret mother feeding her babies.