I seem to gravitate towards movies based on real events. Here's another one, suitable for any age...
Fly Away Home
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed in an auto wreck in New Zealand. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life...that is until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when developers began tearing up a local forest. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". The young birds must fly south for the winter, but who will lead them there? With a pair of ultralight airplanes, Amy, her dad and their friends must find a way to do it...
Fantastic cinematography directed by the same guy who also did the movies
Wind, Never Cry Wolf, and
The Black Stallion.
You need to understand that, in producing this movie, they had to duplicate with real geese what the original people had done.
Despite the occasional bits of hokey dialogue, this a great movie...
If you manage to get the right DVD edition, there are also some great bonuses, including some very cool in-flight footage shot by the people on whom this story is based. Its fascinating stuff.
Another great bonus is a selection which allows you to watch the entire movie with only the musical soundtrack along with an interspersed voice-over from Mark Isham, (also did
Never Cry Wolf) who wrote and produced the music. This is a very interesting insight into how music is developed for movies as well as other trivia. For instance, did you know that the song "10,000 Miles" sung by Mary Chapin Carpenter, and used to great effect in the opening and closing scenes, has no time signature?
10,000 Miles -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Tz3pVb9Dg