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See No Evil
The daily life of three famous elderly apes who spend their days in sanctuaries; a movie-star, a scientist and a crippled are portrayed in SEE NO EVIL. We have watched them closely for many years. And they have been watching us... A poetic, sometimes bitter tale on the intriguing relationship...Watch Movie
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Tokyo Waka
TOKYO WAKA is as much a carefully-etched, lyrical portrait of Tokyo and its denizens as it is a full-fledged rendering of the surprisingly rich life of crows. A tofu seller, a homeless woman and a Buddhist priest contemplate mortality, the metabolism of their city and garbage, while around them...Watch Movie
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The Queen's Garden
Critically acclaimed and enthralling study of the wildlife of Buckingham Palace Gardens is narrated by Virginia McKenna of the Born Free Foundation and written, produced and directed by Bill Travers. The Queen's Garden at Buckingham Palace forms a unique area of garden and...Watch Movie
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Bestiaire
Fascinating and beguiling, BESTIAIRE is filmmaker Denis Côté's mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people through the seasons at a Quebec safari park. This strikingly gorgeous work about the act of looking slyly blurs the line between observer and observed (the film...Watch Movie
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Facing the Storm
The epic account of our tempestuous relationship with the American bison, once dominating the plains of North America, numbering in the tens of millions. Native Plains Indians shared a sacred relationship with the species that went far beyond survival and sustenance. Then, in...Watch Movie
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Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO delves into the mystery of Japan's age-old love affair with insects. From the first fabled emperor who dubbed Japan the "Isle of the Dragonflies," to the cricket-selling businesses of the 1800s and finally to modern-day Tokyo where a beetle recently...Watch Movie
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Standards of Perfection
This is not a film about miniature horses... Rather, this documentary explores the idea of perfection as understood by The American Miniature Horse Association Standard of Perfection. The film questions the nature of such ideals as they are applied to the miniature horses of...Watch Movie
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Fish Tail
Rabo de Peixe (literally translated as 'fish tail') is the name of a village in the Azores that is home to the largest collection of artisanal fisheries on the whole archipelago. The residents, mostly fishermen and their families, have relied on these waters for generations. FISH TAIL is a...Watch Movie
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The Commoners
In 1890, a wealthy eccentric named Eugene Schieffelin collected every bird ever mentioned by Shakespeare and released them into Central Park. The only one to survive in the New World was the European Starling, now among the commonest and most despised birds in America. THE COMMONERS is an essay...Watch Movie
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Herd
There is mystery to the sound and image. The focus is on an animal, but what animal? The image contains subtle movement. Gates slam as percussion to the quiet nighttime sounds. The delicate movement of the animals' fur and flesh is contrasted against its sound, almost musical in pitch and tone....Watch Movie
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Varmints
VARMINTS is a powerful, engaging, and surprisingly humorous expose of the strained relations between people and wildlife in the American West. The film artfully unravels the controversy surrounding this unassuming little rodent, leaving viewers to ponder questions about the ethics of hunting for...Watch Movie
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City of Wax
The Woodard brothers won an Academy Award® for this documentary short illustrating the complex world of bees who've found "a hollow tree in which to build a city," as Gayne Whitman's narration puts it. The siblings' microscopic camera captures the society of male drones, sterile female workers...Watch Movie
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The Lions are Free
The lions in the classic wildlife film, BORN FREE, became world famous. But after the filming was over, what became of them? This question haunted the human stars of BORN FREE, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, whose lives had been transformed by their experiences and their...Watch Movie
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Seven Ages of an Alligator
Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in California. In early 1913 as Thanhouser staff and crews were setting up a facility in Los Angeles, cameraman Carl Louis Gregory was...Watch Movie
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Beneath Our Feet
"Literal forests" of life in the grass beneath us are explored via a microscopic camera in this instructive short. We see how an ant drinks from a dewdrop without bursting it and how crickets court (hint: it's noisy). It is an eat-or-be-eaten world as we watch aphids consumed...Watch Movie
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Battle of the Centuries
This "Pictoreel" studies a "fantastical world of romance in which tragedy reigns supreme." Or so says the narrator of our setting, a mere "old tree stump" that hides a termite city. Their insect society is divided between workers and soldiers, the latter seen fiercely...Watch Movie
