Flight of the Butterflies

A gentle, wonder-filled nature documentary that unfolds like a quiet detective story, leaving you calm and quietly awed by the scale of a tiny migration.

Directed by

Mike Slee

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Megan Follows, Gordon Pinsent, Shaun Benson

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.

How it feels

Measured and easy to follow.

About

Nature, exploration, obsession, family

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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