Bird Movies

An encounter at Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa shot in 16mm by JMG+PP.

A lone tui bird must find her lost voice to speak up against her adoptive magpie family before they start a war.

National Press Club hears a speech from Alfred Hitchcock.

Tim Laman a photographer for National Geographic and ornithologist Ed Scholes have been traveling to some of the most remote jungles the world has to...

The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to...

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

Stunning stories from the unusual life of the Ural owl, a mysterious nocturnal predator that can fearlessly attack even humans. Set over a period of...

A 1934 GB production that was picked up in 1937 by Educational for 20th Century Fox distribution about the gannet, a beautiful white and exceedingly...

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.

Nature documentary that takes a breathtaking flight on the wings of birds across six continents and experiences some of the world's greatest natural...

Meet the big birds, a feathered family who have never flown a day in their lives! From ostriches to kiwis, these bizarre birds appear to be nature's...

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

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

David Attenborough returns to the island of Madagascar on a very personal quest. In 1960 he visited the island to film one of his first ever...

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds....

Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature...

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, a pair of white gyrfalcons and a pack of Arctic wolves are struggling to raise their young. As the...

A devoted pair of little owls set up home in an old orchard in rural Herefordshire. From spring blossom to autumn apples, a year in the life of the...