- Country: Canada, Mexico, UK
- Genres: Biography, Documentary, Short
- Release: 2012-10-01
- Director: Mike Slee
- Writers: Wendy MacKeigan , Mike Slee , Phil Streather
- Language: English
- Stars: Gordon Pinsent , Patricia Phillips , Shaun Benson , Stephen Bogaert , Megan Follows , Manuel Jiménez Frayre , Jayden Greig , Dylan Hoerner , Kevin MacDonald , Gerardo Martínez
- Runtime: 40 min
- Awards: 1 win
- AKA: Flight of the Butterflies (Canada) , Flight of the Butterflies (United States of America) , FJärilarnas resa (Sweden) , Flight of the Butterflies , Flug der Schmetterlinge (Germany) , Flight of the Butterflies (United Kingdom) , Полет бабочек (Russian Federation) , Flight of the Butterflies (Canada) , Flight of the Butterflies (Australia)
- 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.
- IMDB:tt2174750
Flight of the Butterflies Cast · · · ALL
Mike Slee
Director
Megan Follows
Narrator
Gordon Pinsent
Dr Fred Urquhart
Shaun Benson
Ken Brugger
Patricia Phillips
Norah Urquhart
Sofía Sisniega
Chloe
Stephanie Sigman
Catalina Aguado
Jayden Greig
Ice cream boy