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The Crimson Wing (PG)
- Consumer Advice: Contains scenes of flamingo chicks in distress
- Run time: 1 hour 18 mins
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 25th September 2009
- Starring: Mariella Frostrup
- Directed by: Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward
- Distributor: WDSMP
Plot Synopsis
In a remote and forgotten wilderness, one of nature’s last great mysteries unfolds: the birth, life and survival of a million crimson-winged flamingos.
Against the dramatic backdrop of unforgiving,never-before filmed landscapes, we follow the birth of a tiny flamingo hatchling, and the perils and fortunes of her life in the extraordinary "other world" of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania.