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yeah it is one of the best wildlife documentaries.. they filmed for like some 10yrs for that 90mins documentary.. they used some of the most innovative techniques to capture the flight.. i mean to capure what they have captured without scaring the birds away is quiet astonishing.. i think we had talked abt this like 2yrs ago:) i think right now u shud watch that nature program on PBS i dont know when its on on ur side but that program is also as good as winged migration..

Yes thats abs true! Its an awesome doc. I am currently watching Sir David Attenborough's Life of mamals! Obviously its amazing..considering that its made by Att.

winged migration is an excellent documentary. the soundtrack is great too (for documentaries like these, the score has a significant role to play). there are however a couple of points that i just didnt like about it:
1. the narration - just because the director was french (i assume he was french) didnt mean that he also had to narrate it. they should have chosen someone with good narration skills in english. for example, liam neeson in 'everest' adds a lot more to the already spectacular feature.
2. i presume you saw the special feature on 'the making of winged migration'? while some of the filming techniques were great and very innovative and resulted in some spectacular imagery, what disappointed me was the fact that the scenes were somewhat contrived. i had assumed that the birds were actually tracked during their migration and that them flying through NYC or landing in a factory in eastern europe or in africa were just coincidences which the team did a great job of capturing. but it turns out that the birds were actually taken to those locations, set free and then filmed as they went around. ofcourse that itself was easier said than done.

yet, to take nothing away from the makers, it was a great documentary and definitely worth a watch.