Mighty Atoms

A precursor short film to the Secrets of Nature shorts.

A precursor short film to the Secrets of Nature shorts.

A precursor short film to the Secrets of Nature shorts.

A Secrets of Nature short, shot in a Zoo.

A Secrets of Nature short depicting methods employed by sea birds to care for and protect their young are contrasted with those used by various land-based birds.

The film shows a cuckoo caught in the act of laying an egg in the nest of two titlarks. The egg is hatched by the foster-mother, and she and her mate feed and tend the young cuckoo, even to the detriment of their own chicks.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the life-cycle of the Barn Owl.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the conflict between two colonies of wood ants joined by a piece of tiber laid across a moat at a zoological garden.

The pictures show how the ailanthus silkmoth and the red admiral spin silk and weave a cocoon, and the way in which the change from caterpillar to moth is affected.

Beneath the waves are mountains, plains and valleys full of life: here the conger, the octopus, and the wrasse hunt for food; shrimps and prawns act as scavengers; sea anemones and starfish decorate the seafloor, and the spider crab assumes protective colouring by covering its back with pebbles.

Captivating slow-motion and quadrupeds aplenty in this fascinating look at animal movement.

A study of the insect, from caterpillar to butterfly. Part of the “Secrets of Nature” series.

A sign of approaching winter - the frost catches the leaves which begin to fall.

Nature adapts the limbs of animals to the works they will be required to do. This principle is illustrated by the Lion, the Tiger, Leopard, Giant Ant-Eater, Armadillo, Camel, Reindeer, Gazelle, Fowl, Chameleon, Otter, Beaver, Penguin, Fruit-Bat, Spider Monkey and Gibbon.

High speed photography used to show the seed dispersal methods of various plants.

These pictures show the marvellous industry of the Bee, the ingenuity it exercises in making its home, and the ordered programme of life that it appears to follow.

Short documentary film using innovative filming techniques to show how moulds grow and germinate.

How science and nature combine to purify water in a reservoir. Micro-cinematography shows the bacteria present in the water.

Micro-cinematography is used to show how plants transform their secretions into other substances.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the sexual elements of pollenation in Dandelion, Globe thistle, Daisy, Cornflower, Carline thistle and Everlastings.

A Secrets of Nature short film about a the cuckoo.

A life history of the Frog. Released in a silent (1929) and sound (1930) version.

Time lapse photography of the broad bean flower unfurling. Released in a silent (1929) and sound (1930) version.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

The world of fungi captured by micro-cinematography and time-lapse photography.

The film shows the birth, life and reproduction of sweet peas, a familiar and well loved plant of British gardeners.

The Strangler shows the life history of dodder, from its earliest stage as a seedling, to its parasitic stage feeding off its host.

The life cycle of the rose aphid (Macrosiphum Roseus).

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

Short film showing (with limited accuracy) the life-cycle of myxomycetes.

Short documentary showing infusoria in a wine-glass.

The poppy flower in its psychedelic glory.

The breeding cycle of the bittern, the cryptically plumaged relative of the herons.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short film.

A Secrets of Nature short film.

A Secrets of Nature short.

The nightingale and its song, its habitat, nest eggs and young.

Mary Field edits the time-lapse photography of F. Percy Smith to show the life cycle of ferns and related plants.

Short, anthropomorphically-inclined documentary showing the life-cycle of the common newt.

A short documentary study of hops, barley and yeast, and how they interact.

The penultimate Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

Mosses are seen on walls, old roofs and in hedgerows.

During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.

A couple receives a mysterious package from an old friend.

Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

Years spent recording footage of creatures from every corner of the globe is bound to produce a bit of drama. Here's a behind-the-scenes look.

When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash.

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.

Benny and Claire, a down-on-their-luck couple, find a discarded Chitauri weapon referred to as 'Item 47'.

On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader. In a strange and macabre memorial to the leader’s life, the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic—a hunt that will ultimately bring them face to face with a dangerous monster.

On the eve of his departure to Europe, Peter Parker tells Ned Leeds that he has several things to do before they leave.

When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.

A stolen computer disk contains the location of a hidden tresaure trove. It's up to the sexy ladies of LETHAL (Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and Law) to find the treasure before the bad guys do.

When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world!

The previously untold origins of Olaf, the innocent and insightful, summer-loving snowman are revealed as we follow Olaf’s first steps as he comes to life and searches for his identity in the snowy mountains outside Arendelle.

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

When a professional tutor takes a job at a remote manor, he soon finds himself battling his disturbed student’s obsessions, which threaten to expose his darkest secrets and unravel his carefully crafted persona.

Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.

A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.

Aboard a small escape pod, four survivors try to discover what caused the destruction of their spaceship.

Wirt and Gregory are brothers who get tired of walking, so, they borrow a car from a romantic songster made of vegetables.