Microcosmos
Classic 🎂 30 years 4.13/5 1996 · Directed by Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou · Starring Jacques Perrin · Documentary · 80 min
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.
🎂 This film turns 30 in 2026.