Once We Were Four

Once We Were Four

 

(6 from 35 users)

0h 09m 1942 HD

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy creatures human names and characteristics. But it couldn't be accused of shielding kiddies from the harsher realities of the food chain, as this exercise in ruthless Darwinism demonstrates to unintentionally hilarious effect. A more than usually eccentric narrator introduces us to the newborn bunny quartet of Donald, James, Charles and Clifford, but as the film's title gives away, "the boys" aren't all long for this world as they face an assault course of hungry owls, predatory badgers, shotgun-happy gardeners and aerial bombardment (no harm in a little anti-Nazi detour, this is 1942 after all). (from http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-once-we-were-four-1942/)


Related Movies

  • 1938
    Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations

    Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations

    Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations

    6.91938HD

    Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form....

    Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
  • 1938
    Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty

    Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty

    Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty

    6.71938HD

    Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form....

    Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
  • 2018
    Wrestling Ghosts

    Wrestling Ghosts

    Wrestling Ghosts

    02018HD

    Unable to understand why parenting seems like a constant uphill battle, an emotionally exhausted mother who can’t connect with her two young...

    Wrestling Ghosts
  • 2016
    Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement

    Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement

    Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement

    62016HD

    Documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement.

    Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement
  • 2008
    Clowns

    Clowns

    Clowns

    02008HD

    Daisy Asquith investigates the mysterious world of children's entertainers.

    Clowns
  • 1941
    Introspection

    Introspection

    Introspection

    6.31941HD

    The film is set to the music of Franz Schubert and is very strange. Much of it consists of disembodies arms and legs all moving about to the music....

    Introspection
  • 2014
    Land of the Bears

    Land of the Bears

    Land of the Bears

    7.52014HD

    Set in the wilderness of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the land of legends and the kingdom of wild brown bears, we follow the daily adventures of five...

    Land of the Bears
  • 2019
    One Child Nation

    One Child Nation

    One Child Nation

    7.12019HD

    Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social...

    One Child Nation
  • 1949
    Growing Girls

    Growing Girls

    Growing Girls

    61949HD

    After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the...

    Growing Girls
  • 2022
    Le Goût de la savane : Herbivores et carnivores, festins croisés

    Le Goût de la savane : Herbivores et carnivores, festins croisés

    Le Goût de la savane : Herbivores et carnivores, festins croisés

    9.52022HD

    Le Goût de la savane : Herbivores et carnivores, festins croisés
  • 2006
    Birth/Mother

    Birth/Mother

    Birth/Mother

    6.32006HD

    Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and...

    Birth/Mother
  • 1999
    Face to Face: The Schappell Twins

    Face to Face: The Schappell Twins

    Face to Face: The Schappell Twins

    01999HD

    Two bodies and one mind, this is the extraordinary story of one pair of conjoined twins in today's world.

    Face to Face: The Schappell Twins