This also leads to the resulting other minor complaint about the hour and a half film, no overall storyline is established within the "documentary." There is no proposed statement or purpose, nor overall plotline anywhere to pull you through and meander to a conclusion or end, only a couple whispy threads. There was nothing to follow or anything to feel or really feel for. Although I would never want to see 'Winged Migrations' turn into a National Geographic, I lament that there wasn't something there. What a fully amazing piece this could be with a little extra thought put into post-production and editing, not that the visual editing isn't already unbelievably stunning and absolutely top-notch.

To conclude on a positive note, so as to not leave you discouraged and not experience this incredible film for yourself, 'Winged Migrations' has exhausted my memory of synonyms for breathtaking. The unbelievably awesome cinematography will leave you dumbfounded and in pure wonder at the natural world and how they made this film. The unreal close-ups, the serendipitous timing, the entirely natural and amazing behavior, and beauty never thought possible. A film with rave reviews fully justified.

Website Review: (http://www.sonyclassics.com/wingedmigration/index_flash.html) An interesting array of information on many of the birds, including a neat migration diagram for them, and some video clips that feebly try to act as indicators for the film, and finally some further information about the production and such. But if only I read French! The french site we are so teasingly shown the link to in the "links" section puts our version to such shame that, despite the relative wealth of information for an English film website, ours seems horribly second rate. The painful taunt of "le making of" and "les goodies" section titles lets even us American, single-language enthusiasts drool at what we are missing, so much that after seeing that its hard to be happy with our site at all. Yes, the studios have once again relegated the insultingly mediocre to us supposedly stupid, glitz and hook crazed, mindless obsessors of blinky lights and empty movement rather than rich content. Nonetheless, the site is surprisingly interesting with its own meager content, although focused primarily on bird facts.