Bird Movies

From somewhere along the east coast of South America, an osprey has just flown 4000 miles to a small saltmarsh at the delta of the Connecticut River,...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

Quaint observation of the birds around Lake Eola in downtown Orlando, Florida.

A 1934 GB production that was picked up in 1937 by Educational for 20th Century Fox distribution about the gannet, a beautiful white and exceedingly...

David Attenborough tells the remarkable story of how these "birds of paradise" have captivated explorers , naturalists, artists, filmmakers and even...

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

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...

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...

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

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

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...

Swedish filmmaker Mikael Kristersson directs this austere yet beautiful experimental documentary about two European falcons. Shot over the course of...

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

The long running, often bitter scientific debate over the origin of birds and the evolution of flight.