Flight of the Butterflies

Oct 1, 2012

0h 45m

★ 6.2

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Thillaye Productions

Footsteps Post-Production Sound

SK Films

Sin Sentido Films

Spence-Thomas Audio

Flight of the Butterflies Trailers

Cast

Narrator

Megan Follows

Dr Fred Urquhart

Gordon Pinsent

Ken Brugger

Shaun Benson

Norah Urquhart

Patricia Phillips

Chloe

Sofía Sisniega

Catalina Aguado

Stephanie Sigman

Ice cream boy

Jayden Greig

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