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Documentary Viewing: The Little Things That Run the World

Insects throughout the world are declining at an alarming rate. Their safeguarding is in the hands of everyone who cares about the sustainability of life on Earth.

The film introduces viewers to a diverse group of scientists, nature lovers, gardeners, farmers, and bug enthusiasts in exploring the importance of flying insects amid rapid decline in their numbers.

Over millennia, humanity has mastered agriculture, raised monumental bridges and temples, walked on the Moon, but do we truly run the world? In this captivating documentary, filmmakers Dru Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis refocus their lens on a far more powerful force: insects.

By zooming in on the reality of bees, butterflies, beetles, and their kin—tiny, alien-like architects of life—they reveal how these distant cousins on our evolutionary tree sustain ecosystems and, ultimately, our own survival. As they face unprecedented decline, their fate becomes a stark warning: without them, neither we nor the planet can endure. Even still, there is hope!

Run time: 105 minutes

This program is sponsored by the Friends of Memorial Hall Library, in partnership with the Andover Pollinator Pathway, AVIS, Village Garden Club, and the Andover Garden Club. 

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