The Giant Japanese Hornet is the fiercest looking insect on earth, and one of the deadliest. This film follows the remarkable life of one giant hornet queen, as she emerges from hibernation and starts to build up a colony in an old temple garden. Her army of warriors terrorise the beautiful mountain valley in their constant struggle to find food for their hungry grubs.
In a series of dramatic pitched battles, the giant hornets massacre thousands of bees, but victory isn’t always assured – one local honeybee fights back thanks to a remarkable defensive strategy, and suddenly it is the hornets that are dying. A beekeeper monk bears witness to the rising power of the giant hornet colony, and despite the hornet’s attacks on his own bees, he reveals a deep respect for these incredible predators.
Ignore VEEHD’s deceptive advertisement at the beginning of the video and simply click the center play button to start the movie.
March 11, 2011 at 2:22 am | lars
a little too theatrical….and the english voiceover of the monk is sooo full of wisdom…it’s unbearable!
March 13, 2011 at 6:27 pm | David
Link broken!! Does not work. Please fix reported earlier in the week but still not working.
March 13, 2011 at 10:28 pm | Salvus
This link doesn’t work! like half the documentarie son here dont work… its very frutrating please get your heads out of your asses. PLEASE! whats the use of running a website which provides u with a bunch of links that dont work??
March 13, 2011 at 10:44 pm | Danny
Its called being a full time student! Your attitude does not help speed things up, I do have a life outside this site but always try to find as much time as possible to help expand and repair but sometimes this can be hard so have a little patience!
Almost all documentaries are now back up and working due to about 10 hours solid of searching I will get there when i have the chance.
In the mean time why dont you pick another documentary out of the other 1300 we have to offer!
March 19, 2011 at 10:16 am | Mike
I appreciate all of your hard work and effort, thank you:)
June 7, 2011 at 2:18 pm | Bavwill
BE thankful of anything you get. It’s free, ingrate.
June 7, 2011 at 2:18 pm | Bavwill
BE thankful of anything you get. It’s free, ingrate.
November 18, 2011 at 5:52 pm | Ignis_aurum_probat
Don’t complain unless you can do better. Otherwise GTFO. The internet could use a little less stupid
July 24, 2011 at 10:31 pm | Permaculture BC
Loved the video, and the interplay with different species, amazing photography and ability to reach hard to see places. Many thanks to the site, those that keep it up and running and the film maker.
August 31, 2011 at 3:02 am | Kate
It’s not broken, you just need a DivX Web player to watch it
September 4, 2011 at 7:12 am | Keankheon2
u need to install using google browser
September 4, 2011 at 7:12 am | Keankheon2
u need to install using google browser
November 7, 2011 at 5:55 pm | Michea34
You lack the appropriate plugin to watch the video. Get plugin? Failure as firefox doesn’t recognize plugin. Manual install only.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
November 16, 2011 at 7:50 am | Anonymous
Is there a part 2 to this? That ending sucked…. *spoiler alert* (the queen is killed by her own nest… the end) WTH?!?!
December 28, 2011 at 12:20 am | WARNING!
WARNING!
It wants me to download some unsecure and private codec to view this video. Bad, bad and bad! Well, I tried it and started the installer. Before you are allowed to click next you MUST install some custom and newbie made toolbar for your browser. BAD BAD and BAD! I would never do that, so I try to cancel this installation. Not possible because there is no such button. BAD!!! That is probly some kind of scam or virus, even if its not, i would NEVER support them by downloading that crap.
Do not download that codec!
February 29, 2012 at 3:59 pm | kris
yeah I was just as retarded as you, I tried to back off, and instead of just shutting down the computer it got through. I dont have any toolbars, I dont see any new processes running and my microsoft live essentialt dont detect anything after 3 full scans, so I think I’m safe. But the link still doesnt work.
just to repeat what you were saying
DONT CLICK ON THE CODEC