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 11 September 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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- Plant Magic (1927) Director of Photography
- Gathering Moss (1933) Director of Photography
- The Birth of a Flower (1910) Director
- Overlooked (1942) Director of Photography
- Magic Myxies (1931) Director
- Down Under (1930) Director
- Lupins (1936) Director of Photography
- Amazing Maize (1933) Director of Photography
- Cabbage (1935) Director of Photography
- Seed Time (1926) Director of Photography
- The Phantom (1926) Director
- Mixed Bathing (1935) Director of Photography
- The Strangler (1930) Director of Photography
- The Frog (1929) Director
- Thistledown (1935) Director of Photography
- Roots (1934) Director of Photography
- Romance in a Pond (1932) Director of Photography
- The Plants of the Pantry (1927) Director
- The World in a Wine-Glass (1931) Director of Photography
- The Battle of the Plants (1926) Director
- The Life History of the Onion (1943) Director of Photography
- Tale of a Tendril (1925) Director
- Scarlet Runner & Co (1929) Director
- Brewster's Magic (1933) Director
- The Wonders of Harmonic Designing (1913) Director of Photography
- The Life Cycle of the Newt (1942) Director of Photography
- Bertie's Cave (1925) Director
- Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (2016) Cinematography
- Floral Co-operative Societies (1927) Director
- Etude de fleurs (1910) Director
- Nature's Handiwork (1921) Director
- The Story of a Glass of Water (1927) Director of Photography
- Fight for the Dardanelles (1915) Director
- The Life Cycle of the Maize (1942) Director of Photography
- Peas and Cues (1930) Director
- A Queer Diet (1935) Director of Photography
- The Strength and Agility of Insects (1911) Director
- Nature's Double Lifters (1932) Director of Photography
- The Acrobatic Fly (1910) Director
- Kew and Me (1944) Director of Photography
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