The Birds (film) announced they will be making a television adaptation of "The Birds" for broadcast in 2018. The series, from "Harry Potter" producer David Heyman, will bear a closer resemblance to the 1952 Daphne du Maurier novelette than the 1963 film, and rather than northern California, the birds will attack in Cornwall. The pilot for the series is being written by Conor McPherson who adapted the original source material into a stage play in 2009. Streaming audio The Birds (film) The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the
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.