Vanishing of the Bees

The film was first released in the UK with a British narration by Emilia Fox and received mixed reviews from critics, achieving a rating of 62 percent on Rotten Tomatoes based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10.^[5] Filmstar called Vanishing of the Bees "The most important documentary film since An Inconvenient Truth. And Stuart McGurk of The Sunday Times wrote that while the "subject is serious", and this film was "well intentioned and urgent", it was "let down by hammy narration, [and] a made-for-TV budget".^[6] Philip French of The Observer called it a "serious, didactic, rather rambling documentary [that] features some good, decent people". He added that "The blame falls principally on pesticides (which began when chemical warfare techniques were switched to farming), monoculture (ie, the widespread specialisation in single crops), genetic engineering and the world's changing landscape. Governments, the film charges, are listening more closely to the producers of chemicals than to beekeepers."^[7]

The film was then re-released in the US with a new edit and narration by Elliot Page (then known as Ellen Page). The film went on to win best documentary from the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema and the Cosmic Cine Film Festival.

• Vanishing of the Bees at IMDb
• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 October 2016)
• Review of Vanishing of the Bees at Empireonline.com Retrieved 22 July 2010
• Review of Vanishing of the Bees at www.guardian.co.uk Retrieved 22 July 2010