Documentary backdrop image for Clean Up Crew (2021)

Documentary backdrop image for Clean Up Crew (2021)

202148 minPGdocumentary

Clean Up Crew

202148 minPGdocumentary

Crows, vultures, crabs, and dung beetles are essential for ecosystem health, consuming waste and dead matter to prevent disease and maintain ecological balance.

Genres

Synopsis

Crows, vultures, crabs, and dung beetles are essential for ecosystem health, consuming waste and dead matter to prevent disease and maintain ecological balance.

People

Andy Wisher

Andy Wishercast

Synopsis

Crows, vultures, crabs, and dung beetles play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystems. These animals consume waste and dead matter, preventing the spread of disease. Without them, environments would be overrun with decaying plants and animals. "Clean Up Crew," a 48-minute documentary from 2021, presents these often-misunderstood creatures as vital to human health and ecological balance. Their actions contribute to cleaner, safer landscapes.

Comments

What are people saying?

Play More Like This

Wild Workers - Prime Movers (2021)

Wild Workers - Prime Movers

Bison in North America, giraffes in Africa, and koalas in Australia illustrate the essential roles wild creatures play in maintaining their ecosystems.

Wild Workers - Prime Movers

The Fascinating World of Insects (2021)

The Fascinating World of Insects

Insects may number around 10 million species, making up 90% of all life forms on Earth and playing essential roles in ecosystems and food chains.

The Fascinating World of Insects

Animals Like Us - Animal Medecine (2022)

Animals Like Us - Animal Medecine

Grooming rituals among primates can last up to three hours a day, serving to remove parasites and reduce the risk of disease.

Animals Like Us - Animal Medecine

The Scary World of Creepy Crawlies (2023)

The Scary World of Creepy Crawlies

More than a billion periodical cicadas swarm the forest after 17 years underground, providing a feast for various predators.

The Scary World of Creepy Crawlies

Incredible Wildlife Scenes Narrated by David Attenborough (2025)

Incredible Wildlife Scenes Narrated by David Attenborough

David Attenborough narrates wildlife scenes that highlight the behaviors of crabs, pigeons, and a small nocturnal hunter in their natural ecosystems.

Incredible Wildlife Scenes Narrated by David Attenborough

The world's weirdest creatures (2020)

The world's weirdest creatures

Two meters deep, villagers in Papua New Guinea dig for megapode eggs, risking suffocation in their self-made holes.

The world's weirdest creatures

The great death of insects (2019)

The great death of insects

Insects are facing a dramatic decline due to factors such as pesticide use and habitat loss, threatening ecosystems and food chains worldwide.

The great death of insects

Inside Drug House Clean-Up: Illegal Squat In Nottinghamshire (2025)

Inside Drug House Clean-Up: Illegal Squat In Nottinghamshire

In Nottinghamshire, crime scene cleaners confront the aftermath of violence and drug use, navigating hazardous environments filled with biohazards and decay.

Inside Drug House Clean-Up: Illegal Squat In Nottinghamshire

Children of the Sun - Butterflies (2023)

Children of the Sun - Butterflies

A female Emperor moth lays her eggs within hours of mating, ensuring the survival of her caterpillars on specific host plants.

Children of the Sun - Butterflies

Tiny Titans - The Fascinating Lives of Rodents (2024)

Tiny Titans - The Fascinating Lives of Rodents

Rodents shape the world around them, surviving extremes and enriching ecosystems.

Tiny Titans - The Fascinating Lives of Rodents

Explore Clean Up Crew

Where else to watch

The Green Planet (2012)

The Green Planet

2012•1h30m•★7.3TMDB

Thirty percent of the planet's land mass is covered by forests, which are home to wildlife such as red deer, foxes, and purple emperor butterflies.

The Green Planet

Africa's Wild Roommates: How Animals Share Bed and Board (2020)

Africa's Wild Roommates: How Animals Share Bed and Board

2020•54m•★10.0TMDB

Three species in the African savannah-weaver birds, aardvarks, and termites-build homes that accommodate various other animals.

Africa's Wild Roommates: How Animals Share Bed and Board

Crime Scene Cleaners (2025)

Crime Scene Cleaners

2025•46m•★8.0TMDB

in Britain and the USA are called in to restore locations after police investigations and the removal of bodies.

Crime Scene Cleaners

Shooting Crows (2018)

Shooting Crows

2018•20m•★5.5TMDB

Surveillance cameras capture crows reacting aggressively as a woman disappears and trees collapse in a misty park.

Browse more like this

Wild Workers - Prime Movers (2021)

Wild Workers - Prime Movers

Bison in North America, giraffes in Africa, and koalas in Australia illustrate the essential roles wild creatures play in maintaining their ecosystems.

Wild Workers - Prime Movers

No digital watch option in your country

The Fascinating World of Insects (2021)

The Fascinating World of Insects

Insects may number around 10 million species, making up 90% of all life forms on Earth and playing essential roles in ecosystems and food chains.

The Fascinating World of Insects

No digital watch option in your country

The world's weirdest creatures (2020)

The world's weirdest creatures

Two meters deep, villagers in Papua New Guinea dig for megapode eggs, risking suffocation in their self-made holes.

The world's weirdest creatures

No digital watch option in your country

Inside Drug House Clean-Up: Illegal Squat In Nottinghamshire (2025)

Inside Drug House Clean-Up: Illegal Squat In Nottinghamshire

In Nottinghamshire, crime scene cleaners confront the aftermath of violence and drug use, navigating hazardous environments filled with biohazards and decay.

Inside Drug House Clean-Up: Illegal Squat In Nottinghamshire

No digital watch option in your country

Children of the Sun - Butterflies (2023)

Children of the Sun - Butterflies

A female Emperor moth lays her eggs within hours of mating, ensuring the survival of her caterpillars on specific host plants.

Children of the Sun - Butterflies

No digital watch option in your country

Tiny Titans - The Fascinating Lives of Rodents (2024)

Tiny Titans - The Fascinating Lives of Rodents

Rodents shape the world around them, surviving extremes and enriching ecosystems.

Tiny Titans - The Fascinating Lives of Rodents

No digital watch option in your country

The Little Things that Run the World (2025)

The Little Things that Run the World

2025•1h55m•★10.0TMDB

Flying insects, which comprise three quarters of all species on Earth, face a decline nearing catastrophic levels reminiscent of past mass extinctions.

The Little Things that Run the World

Nature's Boldest Thieves (2015)

Nature's Boldest Thieves

2015•49m•★9.0TMDB

Seagulls, foxes, squirrels, and badgers have increasingly adapted to urban life, stealing food from residents in towns across the UK.

Nature's Boldest Thieves

A Murder of Crows (2010)

A Murder of Crows

2010•52m•★8.0TMDB

Crows can recognize up to 250 distinct calls and identify individual human faces, remembering them for as long as two years.

A Murder of Crows

Bacterial World (2016)

Bacterial World

2016•54m•★9.0TMDB

Only 1% of bacteria are harmful, while the remaining 99% play vital roles in ecosystems across the planet.

Bacterial World

National Geographic: Wild Worlds Weirdest Freaks of Nature (2010)

National Geographic: Wild Worlds Weirdest Freaks of Nature

2010•45m•★8.0TMDB

Parasitic wasps transform caterpillars into living incubators for their larvae, illustrating bizarre survival strategies in the animal kingdom.

National Geographic: Wild Worlds Weirdest Freaks of Nature

Invisible (2023)

Invisible

2023•1h25m•★7.0TMDB

Cleaners in schools, offices, hospitals, and streets work long hours every day to keep public spaces clean and functional.

Is this your film?

If you made this film or hold the rights to it, we'd like to talk. We can license it and pay you a share of what it earns.

License it with us →