The Birds and Other Stories the fantasy genre, some bordering on science fiction, the stories were "largely overlong and not too original." The Birds and Other Stories The Birds and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier, originally published in 1952 as The Apple Tree by Gollancz in the United Kingdom. It includes "The Birds," which was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. The anthology was published in the United States as Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Doubleday and then has been republished under the current name, "The Birds and Other Stories". Reviewing
The Story of Mankind (film) listed in the 1978 book "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time". Warner Home Video released the film as part of its Warner Archive made-to-order DVD line on July 20, 2009 in the United States. The Story of Mankind (film) The Story of Mankind is a 1957 American fantasy film, very loosely based on the nonfiction book "The Story of Mankind" (1921) by Hendrik Willem van Loon. The film was directed and co–produced by Irwin Allen and released by Warner Bros. Scientists have developed a weapon, called the "Super H-bomb", which if detonated will wipe out the human race entirely.