No Image Available

Amazing World of the Mini Beasts

Jun 1, 1997

0h 51m

★ 2.5

Webs of Intrigue

Overview

A macro look at the minute creatures that live among us. A world that is terrifyingly brutal yet amazingly beautiful. Struggles to the death, ingenuity beyond belief, the grotesque transformed into the wonderful. This award winning title features stunning cinematography from Emmy winning cinematographer Jim Frazier.

Genres

Documentary

Amazing World of the Mini Beasts Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

No Cast found.

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.

0.0

Hatching by Cirque du Soleil

Jan 1, 2013

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

No Image Available

0.0

Bug People

Invalid Date

In this playful essay film, the filmmaker investigates our culture's discomfort with all things many-legged.

8.0

Ants - Nature's Secret Power

Jan 1, 2004

UNIVERSUM cameraman Wolfgang Thaler and Bert Hoelldobler, a leading authority on ants, bring us face-to-face with the mysterious world of these social insects.

0.0

The Pink Egg

Apr 22, 2017

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror movie, in which human actors wordlessly enact the life-cycles of wasps and bees. Its purpose is to depict with emotion, humor and unnerving specificity an alternative society that really exists and has nothing to do with human beings. A highly stylized depiction of nature in all her deceitful glory.

0.0

The Adventures of a Blue Fly

Jan 1, 1954

This film was produced as an extension of a research film on the metamorphosis of the fly. It successively shows the hatching of the eggs, the nutrition and growth of the larvae, swarming and underground penetration, the formation of the pupa, metamorphosis and organization of the adult insect.

4.5

The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs

Apr 7, 2009

The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs, follows host Ruud Kleinpaste, as he embarks on an entomological odyssey around the globe in search of the ultimate biggest and "baddest" creepy crawlies. The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs will then profile the "stars" of the show, with Ruud explaining in his audience-friendly style exactly what makes them so amazing.

No Image Available

0.0

Vosička Aphelinus Mali

Jan 1, 1954

No overview available.

No Image Available

0.0

Story of the Silk Moth

Jan 1, 1908

No overview available.

0.0

Bugz

Jan 1, 1996

"Incredible," "beautiful" and "exotic" are only a few of the words (besides "eek!") that describe Bugz. Everything from bugs you'd recognize to bugs you've never seen before (thank goodness!) creeping, jumping, fluttering, squirming and scurrying across your TV screen.

5.6

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

Mar 1, 2009

Untangling the web of cultural and historical ties underlying Japan's deep fascination with insects.

0.0

Underground Farmers

Jan 1, 1939

Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the backbone of human society.

9.0

Insekten, Superhelden auf sechs Beinen

Apr 29, 2017

Over the course of evolution, insects have developed abilities that amaze us humans. The small "notched animals", the Latin translation of the word Insecta, are the most successful creatures on this planet. The documentary shows how insects can help solve some of the biggest problems of our time.

0.0

Das große Insektensterben

Nov 23, 2018

No overview available.

0.0

I Want to Stay an Ant

Jul 11, 2015

Satoshi Kuribayashi and his team filmed the insects for over an astonishing 430 days, resulting in breathtaking images and scenes from a still fairly unknown world. Watch a mantis sneak up on its prey and catch it with its razor sharp claws. Experience a deadly, thrilling wasp fight. Sit back and watch the world of the insects unfold before you like you have never experienced it before.

0.0

De-Bugged

Jan 1, 2018

This documentary focuses specifically on insects. Giving you an unbelieveably up close and intimate view of the many unique secrets of the bug world. Answering scientific questions on how and why they have evolved certain bizarre adaptations, whilst using stunning imagery never seen before.

No Image Available

9.0

Edwardian Insects on Film

Mar 19, 2013

In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the father of Natural History film, Smith was a hugely influential visual pioneer, inventing many techniques that are still used today. Being both a genius and an eccentric, we follow his life from his earliest films, to the collapse of his house from his mould experiment to his ultimate suicide. We also meet Natural History icon Sir David Attenborough, who was so amazed by Smith’s films in the 1930s that they inspired him to get into natural history.

6.0

The Hidden World

Jan 1, 1958

The Hidden World is a 1958 American science documentary film produced by Robert Snyder and narrated by Gregory Peck. The film is about insects. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

No Image Available

6.1

The Acrobatic Fly

Feb 16, 1910

Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a miniature dumbbell… Most extraordinary of all is the sequence in which the fly spins a ball twice its own size, while a second fly perches on top. In the final sequence, the fly repeats some of its earlier tricks while apparently seated on a tiny chair.

Amazing World of the Mini Beasts

Overview

Genres

Amazing World of the Mini Beasts Trailers

Cast

You may also like

The Hellstrom Chronicle