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

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 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