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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 211 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1430
Category: DVD
Actor: Jacques Perrin
Directors: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Label: Sony Pictures
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 89 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 1404917535
UPC: 043396133723
EAN: 9781404917538
ASIN: B000BI5KUQ
Release Date: November 22, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: November 30, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
For earthbound humans, Winged Migration is as close as any of us will get to sharing the sky with our fine feathered friends. It's as if French director Jacques Perrin and his international crew of dedicated filmmakers had been given a full-access pass by Mother Nature herself, with the complete "cooperation" of countless species of migrating birds, all answering to eons of migratory instinct. The film is utterly simple in purpose, with minimal narration and on-screen titles to identify the wondrous varieties of flying wildlife, but its visceral effect is humbling, awesome and magnificently profound. Technically, Perrin surpasses the achievement of his earlier film Microcosmos (which did for insects what this film does for birds), and apart from a few digital skyscapes for poetic effect, this astonishing film uses no special effects whatsoever, with soaring, seemingly miraculous camera work that blesses the viewer with, quite literally, a bird's-eye view. A brief but important hunting scene may upset sensitive viewers and children, but doesn't stop Winged Migration from being essential all-ages viewing. --Jeff Shannon
Description
Rolling Stone raved that Winged Migration, the critically acclaimed, awe-inspiring documentary, is"A movie miracle! It soars! You feel privileged!" Witness as five film crews follow a rich variety of bird migrations through 40 countries and each of the seven continents. With teams totalling more than 450 people, 17 pilots and 14 cinematographers used planes, gliders, helicopters and balloons to fly alongside, above, below and in front of their subjects. The result is a film of staggering beauty that Entertainment Weekly hailed as "Mesmerizing!" and the Los Angeles Times applauded as "Breathtaking! As lofty as it is exhilarating!" Open your eyes to the wonders of the natural world as you fly along with the worlds most gorgeous birds through areas.
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Customer Reviews: Read 206 more reviews...
 Outstanding images, with little content June 7, 2006
This is a splendid documentary on birds, and especially bird flight. The quality of the images is absolutely stunning. Many single shots would be worth a poster hung on a wall. The many sequences shot while flying WITH the birds are truly unique and beautiful. I find a bit funny that the movie tells us that "no special effects were used", while in fact all the "main characters" of the movie (geese, swans, pelicans & some cranes) were grown by the movie crew so they would be "imprinted" and happy to fly side by side with the camera operator (you learn a lot about how they did in the "making of" documentary). Well, maybe these are not star-wars like special effects, but most of the shots would have been impossible without this artifice. Not a big deal, anyway, and all birds have been apparently somptuously pampered for the whole duration of the movie, and probably beyond that!
The only reason I am not giving five stars is that bird migrations are such an interesting, fascinating, and still partly mysterious phenomenon that the lack of a serious scientific commentary in the main feature disappointed me a bit. However, the optional commentary and the "making of" documentary do make up for this.
If you expect a truly beautiful candy for the bird-lover eye, this documentary has no match. But if you are looking for something really instructive rather than "only" beautiful, you will probably have to look somewhere else. Still, I certainly highly recommend this documentary.
 No Match to This! May 27, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I will never understand how these French cinematographers were at all the right places at all the right moments to capture all the right movements of winged life.
This epic was three years in the making and it is a supreme monumental work--totally capturing. I never had a clue that so many flighted wonders existed.
It rapturously speaks of God who is creative beyond comprehension. As the unsurpassed make-up artist, He applied the ideal hues and lines to highlight every eye and face. And what person can out perform His choreography--the graceful precise synchronized ballets performed in stunning, multi-tasked, water-resistant costumes?
The musical score was absolutely flawless. The choir of lofty children's voices--faultless. How I would cherish owning a CD of such splendidly pure repertoire!
Oh, I must say as an Idahoan that I delighted in the show-off pompous display of the greater sage grouse of our southern high desert...and yes I am a bit partial.
I must admit that I am all inadequate to describe in words what you will witness on the screen from the time you sore in on the European robin and view in all directions and from all heights the additional 23 species of regaling fowl.
Beauty with a warning April 24, 2006
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you want to see absolutely spectacular footage of birds and nature, this is the best I have ever seen. The filming was extraordinary, just amazing. The film has minimal narrative, and hardly needs even that. You find yourself laughing at comical footage of some of the birds, and then just plain marveling at the beauty captured on film. And then it is ruined for no good reason. Why is it is that self-proclamined animal lovers feel obliged to always remind us that bad things happen to critters? I know they die; I know that bad things too often happen at the hand of man. I know these things happen, and this is not a discourse against hunting. I was even a hunter myself as a boy and young man. And unless you eat tofu all the time and have no leather products in your possession and don't use any products derived from petroleum, you too contribute to those bad things that happens to animals. Is it too naive to expect that we can have an hour or two in which we can simply delight in creation?
If every love story ended with the brutal death of one or both of the lovers, if every story of victory ended with the senseless death of the victor, if every triumph ended with a recap and reminder of failure, I think we would look for inspiration elsewhere. In the case of Winged Migration, I didn't even finish watching it. If you can balance beauty--and believe me this movie does have real beauty--with birds being blown out of the air, then I can recommend this movie to you. The unpleasant scenes are brief, and if this honesty requires that you vote this review as unhelpful, then be my guest. I am simply trying to spare those who do not want to be surprised by unpleasant scenes. This is a review of the movie--not a political forum.
Winged Migration March 27, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Simply superb,- the photography, the dedication to bring this film about. In the world of film documentation, it will be a classic for years to come. For the young ones a wonderful way to spend with nature, perhaps also in small installments, as they have the patience to sit still, as this is not a Disney kind of entertrainment.
A wonderful way of talking to children about the wonders of birds, what makes them fly, how man tries to imitate and succeeded, the people involved to film this story, their dedication, and that good things take dedication and time; miracles - like this documentary - take even longer. But what a result. Thanks
Winged Migration March 11, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
beautiful presention of the lives of birds of all sorts - stunning photography and excellent commentary
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