List of films featuring insects
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This is a list of films which prominently feature insects, either as anthropomorphic protagonists,[1][2] antagonists or mutations such as in horror films,[3][4] or as subjects in a documentary capacity.[5]
Fictional narrative films
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Animated
Animated films with anthropomorphized insects include:[6]
- The Ant Bully (2006) - ants
- The Fly (1958) - a human-fly mutation hybrid
- The Adventures of André and Wally B. (1984) - bees
- Maya The Bee Movie (2014) - bees and others
- Ants in the Plants (1940) - ants in a Fleischer Color Classics short
- Antz (1998) - ants and others
- Bee Movie (2007) - bees and others
- James and the Giant Peach (1996) - grasshopper, centipede, spider, others
- Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen (2007) - spiders
- Bugs in Love (1932) - lovebugs in a Disney Silly Symphonies short
- A Bug's Life (1998) - ants and others
- The Flea Circus (1954) - fleas
- Gallavants (1984) - ants and an amphisbaena
- The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934) - another Silly Symphonies entry
- A Horse Fly Fleas (1947) - fleas
- An Itch in Time (1943) - a flea
- Johnny the Giant Killer (1950) - bees, spiders and other species
- Katy, Kiki y Koko (1987) - caterpillars, ants and alien molluscs
- Katy la Oruga (1984) - caterpillars, a spider, bees and a butterfly
- Kung Fu Panda (2008) - a praying mantis
- Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) - a praying mantis
- Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) - a praying mantis
- The Magic Bird (1968) - ants
- Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013) - ladybugs, ants, a spider, and other species
- Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away (2019) - ladybugs, ants, cockroaches, praying mantis, and other species
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941) - a grasshopper, bee, and other species
- Moth and the Flame (1938) - moths
- Pinocchio (1940) - a cricket
- Pipi Tobenai Hotaru (1996) - fireflies
- The Rescuers (1977) - a dragonfly
- Shinbone Alley (1970) - a cockroach
- The Spider and the Fly (1931) - flies
- Strange Magic (2015) - ants, centipedes and other species
Non-animated
- Fly (1970) - an avant-garde 25 minute film directed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono which depicts a housefly crawling around on the body of a nude woman, actress Virginia Lust. By the end of the film, multiple flies can be seen on Lust's body.
- Joe's Apartment (1996) - cockroaches (live action and puppetry blended with computer and stop-motion animation)
- The Fly (1986) - Flies (live action and puppetry)
- Meet the Applegates (1990) - shapeshifting mantisses try to save their home in Brazil by bringing nuclear holocaust to America
- Eega (2012, The Fly) - flies, an Indian fantasy action film written and directed by S. S. Rajamouli
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Horror films featuring insects
Ants
- The Naked Jungle (1954; army ants)[7]
- Them! (1954; giant mutated ants)[8]
- Phase IV (1974; super-intelligent ants of various species)[7]
- Empire of the Ants (1977; large mutated ants)[9]
- It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977)[10]
Honey bees
- The Deadly Bees (1966)[11]
- Killer Bees (1974)[12]
- The Savage Bees (1976)[13]
- The Bees (1978)[14]
- The Swarm (1978)[15]
- Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995)[16]
Cockroaches
Locusts
- Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)[19]
Wasps
Documentaries
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This section includes both educational and scientific films about insects,[21][22][23][24] as well as notable documentary television programs about insects.[25]
Films
- 1910 The Acrobatic Fly by F. Percy Smith
- 1911 The Strength and Agility of Insects by F. Percy Smith
- 1911 La vita delle farfalle by Roberto Omegna and Guido Gozzano
- 1960 Secrets of the Ant and Insect World from Walt Disney's 1956 Secrets of Life[21]
- 1996 Microcosmos by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou is a record of detailed interactions between insects and other small invertebrates.
- 2009 Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo by Jessica Oreck
- 2009 Vanishing of the Bees by George Langworthy and Maryam Henein about bees' colony collapse disorder
- 2010 The Death of an Insect by Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
- 2010 Colony by Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell about bees' colony collapse disorder
- 2010 Queen of the Sun by Taggart Siegel about bees' colony collapse disorder
- 2011 Wings of Life by Louis Schwartzberg
- 2012 More than Honey by Markus Imhoof about honeybees
- 2016 Bugs by Andreas Johnsen about insects as a food source for humans
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) is a quasi-documentary film about the struggle between man and insects.[26][27] Andrea Shaw called it a faux documentary,[28] although it won the 1971 Academy Award for the best documentary.[29]
Television and video
- 1973 and forward The Real world of insects series by the Learning Corporation of America[30]
- 1979 David Attenborough's BBC series Life on Earth, episodes "The First Forests" and "The Swarming Hordes"
- 1988 Reading Rainbow, "Bugs", Season 6, Episode 2
- 1996 Alien Empire BBC production
- 1998 Bug City (TV series)
- 1999, 2001 Insectia a Discovery Channel program
- 2003 Episodes of DragonflyTV including "Creepy Crawlies" (2003), Weevils (2006)[31] and "Butterfly Wings" (2008)[32]
- 2005 David Attenborough's BBC series Life in the Undergrowth[33]
- 2009, 2011-2012 Monster Bug Wars by Beyond Television Productions of Australia
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Notes and references
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