Spirit of the Beehive (1973) (ES)
Dir: Victor Erice
Fernando Gómez
Erice's visually elegant "poem of awakening"
Ulee's Gold (1998) (US)
Dir: Victor Nunez
Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson
beekeeper whose struggling small business is all that keeps him focused
Hukkle (2002) (HU)
Dir: György Pálf
Ferenc Bandi
This may be the most unusual film you’ll ever see
Videos about bees and beekeeping
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Sussex Plan for Honeybee Health and Well Being
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Professor Francis Ratnieks - Professor of Apiculture at the University of Sussex - outlines his five year plan of four projects specifically designed to improve the health of honeybees.
'Beekeepers are responsible for keeping their hives alive and having good management. But where does good management come from? We believe it will come from good science which will look at how to combat these pests [described earlier] so that beekeepers can follow good practice as determined by research.' Link to Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at Sussex University
Silence of the Bees - full video
In the winter of 2006, a strange phenomenon fell upon honeybee hives across the country. Without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives, leaving billions of dollars of crops at risk and potentially threatening our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers — and to stop the epidemic in its tracks before it spread further. Link to Nature website
Return of the Honeybee - trailer
Imagine half a million adults skipping town and leaving their children behind. Picture an opened suitcase filled with bundles of cash at a bus stop and yet no robber wants to snatch it. The apiary science mystery known as “Colony Collapse Disorder” displays these very symptoms. Link to Hive Mentality
photo LAFF
“The Last Beekeeper”
Documentary Competition
Directed By: Jeremy Simmons
Producers: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Mona Card
Cinematographers: Goro Toshima, Sebastian Jungwirth, David Kempner, Jeremy Simmons, Pyongson Yim
Editor: Jeremy Simmons
Music: David Benjamin Steinberg
U.S.A., 2009, 66 mins
Vanishing of the Bees
Film release date to be anounced soon read more...
Inside a hive with Worthing Beekeepers. Link to Video
An Introduction to Beekeeping
Paul Metcalf
An Introduction to
Keeping Bees (2002)
Dir: Alan James
City of Bees (2006)
Laila Hodell,
Bertel Torne Olsen
