Flight of the Butterflies

(2012)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 20 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2012

Runtime: 45 мин

Country: United Kingdom, Mexico

Director: Mike Slee

Cast: Меган Фоллоуз, Gordon Pinsent, Shaun Benson, Patricia Phillips, Sofía Sisniega, Стефани Сигман, Jayden Greig

Plot

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.