Topic: Birds

Direction Joanna Sarsby · David Attenborough

Cast David Attenborough

Plot David Attenborough's comprehensive and richly detailed study of birds, examining the variety of different species and their ways of life.

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Burt Lancaster · Karl Malden · Neville Brand · Thelma Ritter

Plot Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster), a murderer sentenced to Alcatraz, cures a sick bird that flies into his cell and eventually becomes a world-renowned ornithologist -- all while serving a life...

Direction John Downer

Plot Nature documentary that takes a breathtaking flight on the wings of birds across six continents and experiences some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view.

Direction Jacques Cluzaud

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Tippi Hedren · Rod Taylor · Jessica Tandy · Suzanne Pleshette

Plot Spoiled socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love...

Direction John Downer

Plot Penguins - Spy in the Huddle spends nearly a year in the close company of penguins, deploying 50 spycams to capture as never before the true character of these birds.

Direction Jacques Perrin · Michel Debats · Jacques Cluzaud

Plot The cameras of Jacques Perrin fly with migratory birds: geese, storks, cranes. The film begins with spring in North America and the migration to the Arctic; the flight is a...

Direction Alan Barillaro

Plot Short film about a hungry baby sandpiper learning to overcome hydrophobia..

Direction Luc Jacquet

Plot At the end of each Antarctic summer, the emperor penguins of the South Pole journey to their traditional breeding grounds in a fascinating mating ritual that is captured in this...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast David Bradley · Lynne Perrie · Freddie Fletcher · Colin Welland

Plot Ken Loach's "Kes" follows the tough life of Billy Casper (David Bradley), a young boy in living on the poor end of Barnsley, in the mining areas of Yorkshire County....

Direction Huw Cordey

Cast Stephen Fry

Plot From ruffling their majestic feathers to nailing im-peck-able courtship routines, birds in paradise flaunt their best moves in hopes of landing a mate. Narrated by Emmy Award-winner Stephen Fry, Dancing...

Direction Ralph Eggleston

Plot A group of snooty birds roosting on a telephone wire get their just desserts when a goofy bird drops in.

Direction Maurice Joyce

Plot Puffin Rock follows the adventures of Oona, her little brother Baba and their family and friends on a gorgeous and wild Irish island.

Direction Julien Bisaro

Direction Otto Bell

Cast Daisy Ridley

Plot This spellbinding documentary follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old nomadic Mongolian girl who is fighting an ingrained culture of misogyny to become the first female Eagle Hunter in 2,000 years of male-dominated...

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Matthew Modine · Nicolas Cage · John Harkins · Sandy Baron

Plot "Birdy" is a guy from Philadelphia, a Vietnam vet hospitalized for postwar trauma. Lying in a state of amentia, Birdy (Matthew Modine) fantasizes about birds in flight, an obsession that...

Direction Guy Sherwin

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot A film by Stan Brakhage about the forgetfulness and death. Burial Path grows affecting in its attempt to remember flight for a newly dead bird.

Direction Jeff Turner · Chelsea Turner

Cast Will Arnett

Plot Explore Vancouver Island, where the ocean nurtures all life, from bald eagles who go fishing to sea wolves who swim in frigid waters.

Direction Dony Permedi

Plot The story of a Kiwi who spends his whole life working towards achieving his dream.