7.6 / 10
(252 votes)
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
France,
Switzerland,
Italy
Documentary
80 minutes
1996
Claude Nuridsany
Galatée Films,
France 2 Cinéma,
Bac Films,
Delta Images,
Les Productions JMH,
Urania Film,
TSR
$5,750,000
$1,433,008

2011
9.0

1961
0.0

1955
0.0

2014
5.7

1995
7.4

2021
7.6

2023
7.0

2015
6.9

2025
6.7

2009
7.8

2002
6.0

2019
7.7
2022
0.0

2007
6.7

1991
7.9

0.0

2014
0.0
1987
0.0

2023
0.0

2023
7.2