Cane Toads: An Unnatural History

1988, 47min -

Mark Lewis takes the nature documentary into new realms of the humorous, surreal, and downright bizarre with this stranger-than-fiction tale of the ultimate environmental self-own. The cane toad—Bufo marinus, a species native to Central America—was imported by the sack-load to Australia in 1935 in an attempt to rid the country of the greyback beetle, which was rapidly destroying the sugarcane crop. The toads adapted beautifully to their new surroundings. Problem was, the beetle could fly and they couldn’t. What the cane toad is unusually proficient at, however, is making more cane toads—thousands upon thousands more. CANE TOADS: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY tells the wild story of this amphibious assault—warts and all. Show more

"Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" — movie produced in Australia and released in 1988. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.6 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 47min. "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Click on a playlink to watch it now!