The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos

The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (2008) — watch online on iFILM. A Disneynature documentary directed by Leander Ward and Matthew Aeberhard, filmed over several months at Lake Natron in northern Tanzania — one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth.

Natron is a caustic soda lake where almost nothing can live. Over a million lesser flamingos choose it precisely for that reason: the alkaline water keeps most predators at bay while they breed on the salt flats. The filmmakers tracked the full cycle — courtship, hatching, and the chicks' grueling first journey across the corrosive shallows to reach solid ground. Rare footage from a landscape that had never been properly filmed before. Watch The Crimson Wing (2008) online on iFILM.