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
1911 La vita delle farfalle [it] by Roberto Omegna and Guido Gozzano
1960 Secrets of the Ant and Insect World from Walt Disney's 1956 Secrets of Life^[1]
1996 Microcosmos by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou is a record of detailed interactions between insects and other small invertebrates.
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
2016 Bugs by Andreas Johnsen about insects as a food source for humans

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

References

^ ^a ^b Bouse, Derek (2011). Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 118–119. ISBN 978-0-8122-0584-8.
^ Agriculture Research Service (1954). Motion Picture Films about Insects. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture. OCLC 71024544.
^ Berenbaum, May R. & Levkosky, Richard J. (2003). "Movies, Insects in". In Resh, Vincent H. & Cardé, Ring T. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Insects. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 756–762. ISBN 978-0-08-054605-6.
^ 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.
^ Acorn, John H. & Sperling, Felix A. H. (2003). "Teaching Resources: Television and Video". In Resh, Vincent H. & Cardé, Ring T. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Insects. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 989–990. ISBN 978-0-08-054605-6.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Tompkins, Dave (27 February 2012). "Swarming the Field: Bugs, Nazis, and The Hellstrom Chronicle". Grantland. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "Weevils". PBS.
^ "Butterfly Wings". PBS.
^ Shardlow, Matt (2013). "The institutionalization of insect welfare: the cultural aspects of establishing a new organization dedicated to concerving invertebrates". In Lemein, Raynald Harvey (ed.). The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-107-01288-2.

[Bouse,_Derek_2011_118–119-1] 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. (eds.). 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. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Insects. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 989–990. ISBN 978-0-08-054605-6.

[Murphy-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 (ed.). The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-107-01288-2.

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