Agency - English program:.Ontario Centre. Agency:.Produced by Primitive Entertainment and Films a Trois in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with Centre National de la cinématographie, with the participation of Ministry of Research (France), PROCIREP/ANGOA, France 2, Planète Câble and The Documentary Channel, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund and with the assistance of the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.

Director, Nick de Pencier ; writer, Kevin McMahon ; cinematography, Étienne Carton de Grammont ; composer, Jorge Arriagada ; editor, Christopher Donaldson, Robert Swartz ; producer, Gerry Flahive, Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon, Emmanuel Laurent, David Johnston ; executive producer, Michael McMahon, Emmanuel Laurent ; sound designer, Jean-Mard Lentretien ; sound recordist, Henri Maïkoff, François Waledish ; infographist, Claire Collange, Julien Record, Lolet Ong, Astrida Uche ; mixer, Patrick Ghislain ; executive producer, Silva Basmajian.

Narrator, Kristin Scott Thomas.

Recorded 2007.

Four Wings and a Prayer is a documentary about one of the world's most beautiful and mysterious creatures: the Monarch butterfly. Nowhere in nature is there a more powerful mix of scientific marvel, awesome beauty, and epic struggle for survival. What scientists are at a loss to fully explain is how the Monarch makes a seemingly impossible three thousand kilometre journey from Canada over mountains, through storms, and across large bodies of water to its small and remote over wintering grounds in the mountains of Mexico. Based on the book by Sue Halpern.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Award for Best Wildlife & Natural History Program, 2008

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).