Recent rapid development of photographic and electronic technology plus growing environmental awareness have led to increased production of quality nature films. Very few now appear in theaters, but we can enjoy exceptional nature programming almost weekly on television through series such as Nature, Nova, Survival, and the National Geographic Specials. These efforts make a positive contribution to educating general viewers about nature, and some become available and useful for classroom purposes. But I wish to address the generally less constructive treatment afforded to arthropods on the screen in films made solely for commercial release. I present here a preliminary survey of the movies known to me whose production depicted or used arthropods in some way. Although primarily fictional creations of nonscientists, these works may serve to illustrate how one group of potential mass-audience “educators” (i.e., Hollywood filmmakers) views entomological subjects and how that view is transmitted by their medium.