Bird Movies

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

The story of Darwin's finches and their relationship with other creatures of the Galapagos; tracing their evolution, how the islands were formed and...

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

A newly born bird is excited to explore the world. On its adventure, it finds others on its way, but doesn't understand a word of what is asked of...

A lively young boy befriends and attempts to raise an abandoned baby jackdaw unbeknownst to his choleric and disapproving father.

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

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

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

By some measures, it’s a tiny country, just .03% of the Earth’s landmass. But when it comes to wildlife, Costa Rica is an ecological...

About 50 Amazon parrots live rough on Stuttgart’s streets. They’re not built for the German winter- surviving there takes extraordinary...

The voices of nightingales have lit up the forests of England at night every spring for thousands of years. In this film, award-winning folk singer...

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden....

An excellent display of how humans can rehabilitate and restore an area where a heavy industry polluted the water so severely that it was unsuitable...

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.

A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.

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...

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

This film tells the story of David Rothenberg’s efforts to gather together an international band of musicians to cross the species line and...