Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 128
Fresh: 123 | Rotten: 5
A marvel to watch.
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 0
A marvel to watch.
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A series of journeys around the world with migratory birds. As the seasons and the climates change, we follow different birds through an assortment of beautiful countries and locales.
Apr 18, 2003 Limited
Nov 18, 2003
$10.6M
Sony Classic Pictures
All Critics (139) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (126) | Rotten (5) | DVD (13)
As humbling as it is remarkable.
After seeing these natural wonders, the elaborate special effects of such films as The Hulk and The Matrix Reloaded will seem like cheap parlor tricks.
The photography is radiant.
Flight as sheer freedom couldn't be better demonstrated.
A film that will leave you dreaming about what it would be like to step off the edge of the world and discover you could fly.
A life-affirming story that's enthralling, inspiring and poignant.
Top CriticAs pretty and light as a feather on the wind.
Jacques Perrin's spectacular documentary takes observation a step further as he literally seems to take flight with flocks of birds as they make their annual migration.
Sony Pictures Classics adds a commentary track by Perrin to the standard DVD and blu-ray releases.
Filmed with exceptional care and remarkable photographic ingenuity, no other nature documentary is as personal and as close-up as this one to the peculiarities of birds.
If you want hard information, there are better films out there. But for sheer poetry and an 89-minute appreciation of migratory birds?
The Oscar-nominated "Winged Migration" is a virtuosi technical achievement in documentary filmmaking due to its astonishingly intimate photography of the migrations of numerous species of birds across the earth's northern and southern hemispheres.
The point of this true-life adventure is not the dissemination of information but the instilling of a sense of awe in the viewer ...
I liked the birds that ran on the surface of the water the best, they were so funny.
July 27, 2009Super Reviewer
This may be a 5, but it's been since the film's release that I've seen it, so I want to give it another view.
February 2, 2008Super Reviewer
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