P for Pelican (1972)
• January 3rd, 1972 • 0h 25min
Documentary
Overview
An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word “Pelican” for the letter ‘P’, the hermit goes to the nearby park to see this animal he has never heard of.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Megacities
Released on: 1998-08-12
Documentary
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Alone in the Wilderness
Released on: 2004-10-08
Documentary, History
Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the...
100 Years War: Crecy 1346
Released on: 2013-05-30
Documentary, History, War
On 11 July 1346 Edward III's Anglo/Welsh army landed at St Vaast in the Cotentin Peninsula. Over 12 ...
Bus 174
Released on: 2002-10-22
Documentary, Crime
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an ...
Bucolic
Released on: 2021-08-09
Documentary
Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm and laws...
Favela Rising
Released on: 2005-04-24
Documentary
A man emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.
Hong Kong’s Secret City
Released on: 1988-09-21
History, Documentary
Not many people know that there is in the center of Hong Kong, a city of 50,000 inhabitants that esc...
Isle of Flowers
Released on: 1989-09-06
Documentary
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But ...
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Released on: 1976-10-20
Music, Documentary
The best of Led Zeppelin's legendary 1973 appearances at Madison Square Garden. Interspersed through...
Meaning of Robots
Released on: 2012-03-24
Documentary, Animation, Comedy
This short film profiles the benevolent Mike Sullivan, who has been in the process of shooting a sto...
Alone in the Wilderness: Part II
Released on: 2011-12-02
Documentary
Dick Proenneke's simple, yet profound account of his 30 year adventure in the remote Alaska wilderne...
São Vito
Released on: 2019-02-02
Documentary
Story about the imposing building Edifício São Vito, a mark on the center of São Paulo gentrificatio...
Merton: A Film Biography
Released on: 1984-01-01
Documentary
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
Bortom hagan
Released on: 1988-01-17
Documentary
Documentary about Lars Theodor Jonsson who was a cross country skier in the 1920s and 30s and now li...
Willard: The Hermit of Gully Lake
Released on: 2007-09-30
Documentary
In the 1940's American-born Willard MacDonald jumped his troop train heading to WWII. Fearing author...
A Penny Weighs More Than a Soul
Released on:
Documentary
Ulrich lives without water and electricity at 2,000 meters in the Dolomites, surrounded by a wild pa...
I Want to Be a Pilot
Released on: 2006-06-08
Documentary
Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams ...
Squatterpunk
Released on: 2007-01-31
Documentary
Hapon is an 8-year-old survivor in the slums of modern Manila, scratching out an improvised existenc...
New Towns for Old
Released on: 1942-01-01
Documentary
Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools,...
Favela Gay
Released on: 2014-10-07
Documentary
Favela Gay tells the story of eleven individuals in their own words. Living in eight slums (favelas)...