Where to watch F. Percy Smith in the UK
Find every F. Percy Smith film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 5 May 2026.
A distinguished pioneer of scientific filmmaking, Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. Working as a clerk at the Board of Education, Percy began to photograph the natural world around him, nursing a lifelong fascination with all manner of plant and animal life. His close-up photograph of a bluebottle's tongue caught the attention of film entrepreneur Charles Urban, who quickly began to exhibit Percy's work in London theatres. After the considerable success of sequences such as The Balancing Bluebottle, where he recorded flies juggling, Percy finally joined Urban as a full-time filmmaker i…
F. Percy Smith films streaming in the UK
Most-watched films featuring F. Percy Smith, available across UK streaming, rent and buy.
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- Wisdom of the Wild (1940) Director
- Life in the Balance (1936) Director of Photography
- Floral Co-operative Societies (1927) Director of Photography
- Lupins (1936) Director of Photography
- To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909) Director
- Tale of a Tendril (1925) Director
- Memories (1944) Director of Photography
- New Generation (1936) Director of Photography
- Bertie's Cave (1925) Director
- Fight for the Dardanelles (1915) Director
- The Acrobatic Fly (1910) Director
- The Life Cycle of the Newt (1942) Director of Photography
- Mixed Bathing (1935) Director of Photography
- The Birth of a Flower (1910) Director
- Nature's Double Lifters (1932) Director of Photography
- Safety First (1936) Director of Photography
- Nature's Handiwork (1921) Director
- The Strangler (1930) Director of Photography
- He Would a-Wooing Go (1936) Director of Photography
- The Tough 'un (1938) Director of Photography
- The Story of a Glass of Water (1927) Director of Photography
- Varieties of Sweet Peas (1911) Director
- The Wonders of Harmonic Designing (1913) Director of Photography
- Romance in a Pond (1932) Director
- Brewster's Magic (1933) Director
- Thistledown (1935) Director of Photography
- Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (2016) Cinematography
- Peas and Cues (1930) Director
- Overlooked (1942) Director of Photography
- Singing While They Work (1942) Director of Photography
- The Strength and Agility of Insects (1911) Director
- Magic Myxies (1931) Director
- The Life Cycle of the Pin Mould (1943) Director of Photography
- Plant Magic (1927) Director of Photography
- Roots (1934) Director of Photography
- Etude de fleurs (1910) Director
- Story of the Silk Moth (1908) Director
- Fresh As a Daisy (1945) Director of Photography
- The Catch of the Season (1938) Director of Photography
- The Frog (1929) Director
- Cabbage (1935) Director of Photography
- The Phantom (1926) Director
- The Plants of the Pantry (1927) Director
- Gathering Moss (1933) Director
- Amazing Maize (1933) Director of Photography
- A Queer Diet (1935) Director of Photography
- White Flies and Tomatoes (1935) Director of Photography
- The World in a Wine-Glass (1931) Director of Photography
- Scarlet Runner & Co (1929) Director
- The Life History of the Onion (1943) Director of Photography
- The Life Cycle of the Maize (1942) Director of Photography
- Seed Time (1926) Director of Photography
- Down Under (1930) Director
- Far and Wide (1938) Director of Photography
- The Battle of the Plants (1926) Director
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Most-watched F. Percy Smith films currently: Wisdom of the Wild (1940), Life in the Balance (1936), Floral Co-operative Societies (1927), Lupins (1936), To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909).
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