# List of films featuring insects

This is a list of films which prominently feature insects, either as anthropomorphic protagonists, antagonists or mutations such as in horror films, or as subjects in a documentary capacity.

## Fictional narrative films
### Animated

Animated films with anthropomorphized insects include:
* 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

### Both

* Films and television programmes based on Alice in Wonderland - a caterpillar

## Horror films featuring insects
### Ants

* The Naked Jungle (1954; army ants)
* Them! (1954; giant mutated ants)
* Phase IV (1974; super-intelligent ants of various species)
* Empire of the Ants (1977; large mutated ants)
* It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977)

### Honey bees

* The Deadly Bees (1966)
* Killer Bees (1974)
* The Savage Bees (1976)
* The Bees (1978)
* The Swarm (1978)
* Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995)

### Cockroaches

* Creepshow (1982, killer cockroaches)
* Mimic (1997, evolved human-sized genetically engineered cockroaches)

### Locusts

* Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)

### Wasps

* Stung (2015; large mutated wasps)

## Documentaries

This section includes both educational and scientific films about insects, as well as notable documentary television programs about insects.

### 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 [it] by Roberto Omegna and Guido Gozzano
* 1960 Secrets of the Ant and Insect World from Walt Disney's 1956 Secrets of Life
* 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. Andrea Shaw called it a faux documentary, although it won the 1971 Academy Award for the best documentary.

### Television and video

* 1973 and forward The Real world of insects series by the Learning Corporation of America
* 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) and "Butterfly Wings" (2008)
* 2005 David Attenborough's BBC series Life in the Undergrowth
* 2009, 2011-2012 Monster Bug Wars by Beyond Television Productions of Australia