Flight of the Butterflies (2012)
• October 1st, 2012 • 0h 45min
Documentary
Overview
It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Kid City
Released on: 1972-01-01
Documentary
Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as the...
World of Plenty
Released on: 1943-11-17
Documentary
An opening narration explaining that the film's purpose is to examine the "world strategy of food", ...
Far Away
Released on: 2024-04-08
Documentary, History
A landscape is only a landscape until we know what lies beneath. Pozo Ibarra, in the Central Mountai...
I Remember Lena Svedberg
Released on: 2000-01-30
Documentary
Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make thei...
The Bowl
Released on: 2017-10-01
Documentary
A short film documenting the time the filmmaker spent in Kenya.
Afrique 50
Released on: 1950-12-31
Documentary
The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to docu...
Lord Howe Island: Pacific Eden
Released on: 2006-12-31
Documentary
A place of biological superlatives with a flora and fauna that have only just begun to be researched...
Pyramid
Released on: 2014-10-18
Documentary
Pyramid is a single screen work on Abraham Maslow's theory on the hierarchy of human needs filmed th...
The City’s Unknown
Released on: 1958-01-01
Documentary
The life, the problems, the hopes of the ragazzi of the suburbs of Rome. Ignored by the city, these ...
Cornell, 1965
Released on: 1978-09-28
Documentary
Lawrence Jordan's portrait of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell.
Verräter
Released on: 1962-01-01
Documentary
Documentary on the former border patrol sergeant Klein. Klein deserted in 1961, defected to the enem...
Shadowlands
Released on: 2016-01-30
Animation, Documentary
Shadowlands is an animated short film about darkness that won't let go. About the constant fear that...
Head, Tail, Rail
Released on: 2014-04-24
Documentary
The starting point of this film was a set of 35mm trailers acquired from various abandoned cinemas. ...
Exploring the Reef
Released on: 2003-11-04
Animation, Documentary, Comedy
Jean-Michael Cousteau's documentary about the Great Barrier Reef keeps getting interrupted by charac...
Dead Heart
Released on: 1986-05-28
Documentary
The Australians call the endless deserts in the interior of the continent the "dead heart". Here lie...
The Illusion
Released on: 2009-02-06
Documentary
Susana Barriga’s documentary, the illusion, begins with violence. A long shot reveals a man standing...
