Bird Movies

National Press Club hears a speech from Alfred Hitchcock.

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

In this traditional blue-chip documentary we show a dramatic comparison between two environments fed by the same stock of sardine, and dominated by...

A beast at sea yearns for more.

Portrait of Hermann Heinzel.

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...

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

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...

Norman Smith has dedicated his life to protecting and relocating the snowy owls from Boston’s busiest airport runways. Called “the Owl...

A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the songbird and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not meant to be captive.

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

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...

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

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

When a young boy shoots at a bird and misses, he embarks on a search to find where the bullet went.