Bird Movies

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

Based on late field biologist John Sincock's experiences in Kauai.

Living in the depths of the New Guinean Rainforest are birds of unimaginable colour and beauty. When Europeans first saw the plumes of these fabulous...

An experimental film about a black market surgery. Exploring the meaning of freedom, pain and relief.

A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.

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

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

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...

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

Dino Bird is a visually spectacular one-hour film that explores the life of the endangered southern cassowary through the eyes of matriarch Bertha,...

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

Documentary about kookaburras

Discover the beauty, brilliance and behaviour of Australia's most conspicuous birds - parrots and cockatoos in Australia: Land of Parrots....

A married couple is educated in the risks and dangers of going outside.

With narration from Paul McGann, this ground-breaking film sets out to solve one of nature's mysterious phenomena: the Bewick swan's dramatic...

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

Western Australia's iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in...

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...