Flight of the Butterflies (2012)

Directed by

Mike Slee

Genre

documentary film, nature documentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

40 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a scientist's decades-long search to understand the monarch butterfly's migration route. It shows how the butterflies travel thousands of miles from Mexico to Canada and back each year.

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What happens

Flight of the Butterflies is a 2012 Canadian documentary film directed and co-written by Mike Slee for 3D IMAX, starring Megan Follows, Gordon Pinsent, and Shaun Benson. The film covers Dr. Fred Urquhart's nearly 40-year-long scientific investigation into the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), tracking the details of what is considered one of the longest known insect migrations: the flight of the monarch butterfly from Central Mexico to the United States and Canada and back. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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