Emptying the Skies (2015)

Emptying the Skies full movie is released on Apr 22, 2015. Watch Emptying the Skies online - the English Documentary movie from United States , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $11,811. Emptying the Skies is directed by Douglas Kass,Roger Kass and created by Douglas Kass with Peter Berthold and Sergio Coen Tanugi. Emptying the Skies is available online on Tubi TV and Kanopy.

Based on a magazine essay written by noted best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen for 'The New Yorker' and widely republished around the world, 'Emptying the Skies' chronicles the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe. Songbird populations have been drastically declining for several decades, and a number of species face extinction imminently. The film explores the wonder of these tiny globe-flying marvels, millions of which are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large sums on the black market, and follows an intrepid squad of pan-European bird-lovers who risk their lives waging a secret war against poachers, disrupting illegal trapping and freeing as many birds as possible. Jonathan Franzen is executive producer of and featured in the film.