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^[1]
• 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.^[7][8] Andrea Shaw called it a faux documentary,^[9] 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^[10]
• 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)^[11] and "Butterfly Wings" (2008)^[12]
• 2005 David Attenborough's BBC series Life in the Undergrowth^[13]
• 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. & Levkosky, Richard J. (2003). "Movies, Insects in". In Resh, Vincent H. & Cardé, Ring T. Encyclopedia of Insects. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 756–762. ISBN 978-0-08-054605-6.
4. Armstrong, Richard B.; Armstrong, Mary Willems, eds. (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. & Sperling, Felix A. H. (2003). "Teaching Resources: Television and Video". In Resh, Vincent H. & 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. Tompkins, Dave (27 February 2012). "Swarming the Field: Bugs, Nazis, and The Hellstrom Chronicle". Grantland. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
8. Chapman, James & Cull, Nicholas J. (2013). Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema. London: I.B.Tauris. pp. 141–143. ISBN 978-1-78076-410-8.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. "Weevils". PBS.
12. "Butterfly Wings". PBS.
13. 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.