Bird Movies

Narrated by David Attenborough, this film showcases the bird diversity of the Minsmere Nature Reserve.

David Attenborough has a passion for birds' eggs. These remarkable structures nurture new life, protecting it from the outside world at the same time...

In Go Tell It to the Mountain, the speculative realms of archaeology and forensics intersect with these rumours. The word-of-mouth stories blur the...

A veteran pair of osprey return home to a Connecticut saltmarsh. Over one summer they must battle their enemies, withstand the elements, and hunt...

A disaster truck, which is equipped to meet practically any emergency that arises in the community; In Oklahoma a breeder of under-slung cattle,...

The nightingale and its song, its habitat, nest eggs and young.

Second part of the film 'River of ice', a mountaineering tour on Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. After spending the night in the Deficance Hut,...

A beast at sea yearns for more.

Is there a connection between animal sounds and the music that humans create? Using a surprising and wide variety of evidence from the animal kingdom...

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...

Fanatical birdwatchers have descended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hopes of finding the celebrated Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Declared...

This film documents the yearly cycle of the great blue heron, its migration from Central America and the West Indies to the St. Lawrence River in...

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

When an ornithologist’s funding gets cut, her nurturing of abandoned bird eggs leads to a transformation as her marriage crumbles.

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

This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream,...

A clever parrot becomes the sole witness to a violent murder and may hold the answers when it mimics the victim's final words.