Bird Movies

They hammer, drum and construct – meet the master builders and percussionists of the bird world – and their tenants, like tits, pigeons...

After being hunted to near-extinction, the last male Eskimo curlew searches for a mate while making the annual migration from the arctic tundra to...

Angry birds are very popular- especially among game-playing kids, but are there real angry birds out there? Birds battle to survive, find food, and...

Tim Laman a photographer for National Geographic and ornithologist Ed Scholes have been traveling to some of the most remote jungles the world has to...

Summertime. In a camping, three little girls listen to an old mysterious story about a missing kid. They start to investigate.

The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to...

Among the species illustrated are Fulmar, Gannet, Cormorant, Shag, Kittiwake, Common Guillemot (or Murre), Brunnich's Guillemot, Razorbill and...

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Documentary about kookaburras

A lone tui bird must find her lost voice to speak up against her adoptive magpie family before they start a war.

Whoever came up with the term 'bird brain' never met these feathered thinkers, who use their claws and beaks to solve puzzles, make tools and more.

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

In South American woods, lives a mysterious bird that has inspired myths and stories among indigenous peoples. Some of them link that bird with...

National Press Club hears a speech from Alfred Hitchcock.

From the North Pole to remote islands, birds can live almost anywhere. How do these resilient animals thrive in such different environments? They...

A Japanese animal photographer, Tadashi Shimada, captures crucial photographs of wild birds in Oceania. This episode of Shimada filmed in...

Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild...

David Attenborough returns to the island of Madagascar on a very personal quest. In 1960 he visited the island to film one of his first ever...

Living in the depths of the New Guinean Rainforest are birds of unimaginable colour and beauty. When Europeans first saw the plumes of these fabulous...