The Playful Pelican (1948)

Depois que seu filho é capturado na Grande Barreira de Corais e levado para Sydney, um peixe-palhaço tímido parte em uma jornada para trazê-lo para casa.

Durante 3 anos são acompanhados os hábitos de migração de diversas espécies de pássaros, passando por todos os continentes do planeta.

Michael Kingley é um ex-empresário bem-sucedido e agora avô aposentado. Quando começa a ver imagens de seu passado, ele é forçado a se lembrar de sua infância traumática. Agora, ele conta à neta como resgatou e criou um extraordinário pelicano órfão, chamado Sr. Percival na infância.

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.

Documentário mostra o esforço de ativistas para salvar uma espécie ameaçada de extinção, depois da explosão na plataforma da BP, em 2010.