Zoology
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Genres / Documentary / Science / Biology / Zoology
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The Beast Within
Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: in living memory, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved. THE BEAST WITHIN pursues the reasons for man's drive to have animals fight against each other. It picks up the trails of our martial instincts that lead into various...Start your free trial to watch -
Bestiaire
Fascinating and beguiling, BESTIAIRE is filmmaker Denis Côté's mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people through the seasons at a Quebec safari park. This strikingly gorgeous work about the act of looking slyly blurs the line between observer and observed (the film opens with art students...Start your free trial to watch -
El Caballo
When early Spanish explorers accidentally released wild horses (Equus cabalus) to the continent in the early 1500s, they returned an American original. Although the remnants of the escaped Spanish horse are protected by the 1971 Free-Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act, each year thousands are removed from public lands across...Start your free trial to watch
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The Commoners
In 1890, a wealthy eccentric named Eugene Schieffelin collected every bird ever mentioned by Shakespeare and released them into Central Park. The only one to survive in the New World was the European Starling, now among the commonest and most despised birds in America. THE COMMONERS is an essay film about European Starlings,...Start your free trial to watch -
Ghost Bird
Adrift in an Arkansas swamp in February of 2004, a lone kayaker encountered what he believed could only be a figment of his imagination: an enormous black and white bird that had been declared extinct in North America for over fifty years. Identified as an Ivory-Billed woodpecker, this sighting eventually launched a year-long...Start your free trial to watch -
Killing Coyote
It is estimated that 400,000 coyotes are trapped, shot and poisoned in America every year. Many are killed using your tax dollars. Many more are killed for fun, cash and prizes. Still, they continue to thrive. "A startling documentary that gracefully manages to neither preach about animal rights nor avoid the difficult...Start your free trial to watch
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Saving Flipper
Our love affair with dolphins began with the television series FLIPPER and ended in a multi-million dollar industry of abuse. From the dazzling sea shows where dolphins are driven to suicide to an annual dolphin slaughter in a small cove in Japan, SAVING FLIPPER reveals the nightmare behind the dolphin's indelible smile.Start your free trial to watch -
Seven Ages of an Alligator
Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in California. In early 1913 as Thanhouser staff and crews were setting up a facility in Los Angeles, cameraman Carl Louis Gregory was taking documentary footage, from...Start your free trial to watch -
Varmints
VARMINTS is a powerful, engaging, and surprisingly humorous expose of the strained relations between people and wildlife in the American West. The film artfully unravels the controversy surrounding this unassuming little rodent, leaving viewers to ponder questions about the ethics of hunting for sport and our relentless...Start your free trial to watch




