Microcosmos

Sep 6, 1996

1h 20m

★ 7.5

15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Galatée Films

France 2 Cinéma

Bac Films

Delta Images

Les Productions JMH

Urania Film

TSR

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Cast

Récitant / Narrator (voice)

Jacques Perrin

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0.0

Every Day After

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6.8

Songs of Earth

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10.0

What Killed the Whale?

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5.0

Charles: In His Own Words

Apr 28, 2023

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0.0

Pure Instinct Montana

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0.0

The Right Companion

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7.3

Antarctica Calling

Dec 20, 2023

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9.6

YEAR

Feb 25, 2023

A documentary film-project by Dmytro Komarov. He was the first journalist to witness and film the horrors of the just-liberated towns of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel. He saw the first emotions of people immediately after the de-occupation of Kyiv region, Kharkiv region, and Kherson region. The documentary is the author's view of the war from angles that you won't see in the news. Unique, rare, exclusive comments from those whose hands and minds are shaping our future victory. The main heroes of documentary are both ordinary Ukrainians who heroically show their strength and power every day for a year and high-ranking officials such as Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov, Major General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk. Initially, "Year" was a series of journalistic reports, later they were edited into a two-part film.

0.0

5 Times Chico: The San Francisco River and His People

Jan 1, 2019

No overview available.

7.4

Satan Wants You

Aug 11, 2023

The story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by "Michelle Remembers", a memoir by psychiatrist and his patient. The book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle's abduction by baby-stealing Satanists.

0.0

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

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0.0

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0.0

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3.5

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0.0

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6.6

Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia

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0.0

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

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10.0

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10.0

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Microcosmos

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