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Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur)

Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur) (2003)

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Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 0

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While practically everyone is aware of the fact that birds fly south for the winter, and return home in the spring, few are aware of just how arduous the journey can be. Jacques Perrin, a noted actor and film producer in his native France, decided to document this process, using flocks of birds who had been trained to ignore the distractions of his camera crew, and employing a variety of state-of-the-art technology to capture as unobtrusively as possible the flight paths of different birds from

Nov 18, 2003

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As humbling as it is remarkable.

July 11, 2003 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee
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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.

July 11, 2003
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The photography is radiant.

July 11, 2003
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Flight as sheer freedom couldn't be better demonstrated.

June 27, 2003
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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.

June 27, 2003
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A life-affirming story that's enthralling, inspiring and poignant.

June 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle
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As pretty and light as a feather on the wind.

December 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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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.

December 23, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Views

Sony Pictures Classics adds a commentary track by Perrin to the standard DVD and blu-ray releases.

October 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

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.

October 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

If you want hard information, there are better films out there. But for sheer poetry and an 89-minute appreciation of migratory birds?

June 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

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.

April 19, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
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Utilizing sky divers, ultralights, helicopters, planes, etc., the filmmakers litterally have you flying with the birds. It makes for a heady, enjoyable ride.

June 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Scouts
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Audience Reviews for Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur)

I liked the birds that ran on the surface of the water the best, they were so funny.
July 27, 2009
purplemegan

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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, 2008
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Foreign Titles

  • Nomaden der Lüfte (DE)
  • The Travelling Birds (UK)
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