The invention discloses a method for preparing zirconium metal filaments. The method comprises the steps of firstly, preparing zirconium ingots and forging bar billets; secondly, rolling the bar billets into bars and machining and removing surface scales; thirdly, drawing the bars to obtain wires; fourthly, performing acid cleaning to the wires and then carrying out vacuum annealing; fifthly, carrying out multi-path drawing on the wires after vacuum annealing, and then performing vacuum annealing to the drawn wires; sixthly, carrying out acid pickling, prefilming, electroplating and flushing on the wires subjected to vacuum annealing sequentiall, and then drying; seventhly; seventhly, bundling the dried wires and loading into copper tubes and compounding on a broaching machine so as to obtain composite tubes, and drawing after vacuum annealing; and eighthly, carrying out acid pickling on the drawn composite tubes to remove copper and oxidation films, flushing with deionized water, and naturally drying to obtain the zirconium fiber filaments. According to the method, the bundling and drawing process is adopted to prepare the zirconium fiber filaments, and the zirconium composite tube cannot be fractured during the bundling and drawing process due to selection of proper zirconium-copper cross section ratio.