The Playful Pelican (1948)

Nemo, un pececillo, hijo único muy querido y protegido por su padre, ha sido capturado en un arrecife australiano y ahora vive en una pecera en la oficina de un dentista de Sidney. El tímido padre de Nemo se embarcará en una peligrosa aventura para rescatar a su hijo. Pero Nemo y sus nuevos amigos tienen también un astuto plan para escapar de la pecera y volver al mar.

Ambicioso documental sobre la migración de las aves, un viaje que recorre más de 40 países. 4 años de trabajo y más de 140 personas contribuyeron a la creación de un singular estudio, no sólo de las diferentes aves migratorias y sus patrones migratorios, sino del ecléctico, espectacular y sorprendente planeta en el que vivimos. Estuvo nominado al Oscar al mejor documental.

Basada en el aclamado libro homónimo, Storm Boy es la historia de un joven que crece en la hermosa pero deshabitada costa del sur de Australia y que inesperadamente rescata a tres pelícanos huérfanos. Tras crear un vínculo cercano con ellos se verá en una peculiar situación con su padre pescador, con lo que su vida dará un nuevo e inesperado giro.

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelican and decides to leave the bird at home. Pelican helps the boy find his father again and revive him back to life ...

Sundance-and-Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker Judy Irving (with her first film since the widely acclaimed and loved “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill”) follows a wayward California brown pelican from her “arrest” on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans’ nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration, and survival challenges of these ancient birds, sometimes referred to as the flying dinosaurs. The film is about wildness, and asks the following questions: how close can we get to a wild animal without taming or harming it? Why do we need wildness in our lives, and how can we protect it? PELICAN DREAMS, stars “Gigi” (for Golden Gate) and Morro (a backyard pelican with an injured wing).

A man and a woman and 3 children start to sail around the world. They are shipwrecked near an uninhabited isle. This island is full of wild animals and it is very dangerous for them in the begining. They live through a lot of wonderful adventure together and they become a big family.

Wanting to know the ways of people, a pelican turns into a gawky young man who soon learns to speak, thanks to his outstanding talent in imitation. He befriends Emil and Elsa, two children who--unlike adults--see that their new neighbor "Mr Berd" is not human but a big bird wearing a suit. The Pelican Man lands a job at the opera and falls in love with a pretty ballerina, looking so much like a bird herself. Troubles start when adults too find out about "Mr Berd's" ornithological origin.

HBO Documentary Films Presents the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one life.