Vanishing of the Bees (2009) on Netflix

Plot summary

The sudden loss of honeybees from hives around the world is known as colony collapse disorder, and its cause remains poorly understood. The film places those losses in the setting of modern agriculture: single crops grown over wide areas, engineered plants, a changing landscape and the chemicals applied to fields. It suggests a connection between neonicotinoid pesticides and the disorder without reaching a firm conclusion. Beekeepers, scientists, politicians and advocates describe the problem from their own side, and the film's charge is that governments heed chemical producers more than beekeepers. It also covers the ancient bond between people and the honeybee and the changes the crisis has brought to farming, offering viewers steps of their own.