List of insect documentaries

This list of insect documentaries includes both educational and scientific films about insects,^[1][2][3][4] as well as notable documentary television programs about insects.^[5] It excludes fictional accounts of insects, such as those in the science fiction eco-horror subgenre.^[6]

Films

• 1910 The Acrobatic Fly by F. Percy Smith
• 1911 The Strength and Agility of Insects by F. Percy Smith
• 1960 Secrets of the Ant and Insect World from Walt Disney's 1956 Secrets of Life^[7]
• 2009 Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo by Jessica Oreck
• 2009 Vanishing of the Bees by George Langworthy and Maryam Henein about bees' colony collapse disorder
• 2010 The Death of an Insect by Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
• 2010 Colony by Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell about bees' colony collapse disorder
• 2010 Queen of the Sun by Taggart Siegel about bees' colony collapse disorder
• 2012 More than Honey by Markus Imhoof about honeybees

The The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) is a quasi-documentary film about the struggle between man and insects.^[8][9] Andrea Shaw called it a faux documentary,^[10] although it won the 1971 Academy Award for the best documentary.^[6]

Television and video

• 1973 and forward The Real world of insects series by the Learning Corporation of America^[11]
• 1979 David Attenborough's BBC series Life on Earth, episodes "The First Forests" and "The Swarming Hordes"
• 1999, 2001 Insectia a Discovery Channel program
• 2003 Episodes of DragonflyTV including "Creepy Crawlies" (2003), Weevils (2006)^[12] and "Butterfly Wings" (2008)^[13]
• 2005 David Attenborough's BBC series Life in the Undergrowth^[14]
• 2009, 2011-2012 Monster Bug Wars by Beyond Television Productions of Australia

See also

• List of documentary films
• Nature documentary
• List of films featuring anthropomorphic insects
• List of natural horror films#Insects

Notes and references

1. Bouse, Derek (2011). Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 118–119. ISBN 978-0-8122-0584-8.
2. Agriculture Research Service (1954). Motion Picture Films about Insects. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture. OCLC 71024544.
3. Berenbaum, May R. and Levkosky, Richard J. (2003). "Movies, Insects in". In Resh, Vincent H. and Cardé, Ring T. Encyclopedia of Insects. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 756–762. ISBN 978-0-08-054605-6.
4. Armstrong, Richard B. and Armstrong, Mary Willems, ed. (2010). "Insects". Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series (reprint of second edition (2001) ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 107]. ISBN 978-1-4766-1230-0.
5. Acorn, John H. and Sperling, Felix A. H. (2003). "Teaching Resources: Television and Video". In Resh, Vincent H. and Cardé, Ring T. Encyclopedia of Insects. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 989–990. ISBN 978-0-08-054605-6.
6. Murphy, Bernice M. (2013). "Chapter 5. 'Why Wouldn't the Wilderness Fight Us?' American Eco-Horro and the Apocalypse". The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness. Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 217–218. ISBN 978-1-137-35373-3.
7. Bouse, Derek (2011). Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 118–119. ISBN 978-0-8122-0584-8.
8. Tompkins, Dave (27 February 2012). "Swarming the Field: Bugs, Nazis, and The Hellstrom Chronicle". Grantland. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
9. Chapman, James and Cull, Nicholas J. (2013). Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema. London: I.B.Tauris. pp. 141–143. ISBN 978-1-78076-410-8.
10. Shaw, Andrea (1996). "The Hellstrom Chronicle". Seen That, Now What?: The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Video You Really Want to Watch. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-684-80011-0.
11. Kaye, Evelyn (1979). The ACT Guide to Children's Television: Or how to Treat TV with T.L.C. (second ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-8070-2366-2.
12. "Weevils". PBS.
13. "Butterfly Wings". PBS.
14. Shardlow, Matt (2013). "The institutionalization of insect welfare: the cultural aspects of establishing a new organization dedicated to concerving invertebrates". In Lemein, Raynald Harvey. The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-107-01288-2.