The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle (1967)
The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle is a 1967 American live-action Walt Disney film. A Hopi Indian boy is banished from his village after he defies tribal law and frees a sacred, sacrificial eagle. After surviving in the wilderness he returns to his village where he is again rejected. Fleeing the boy climbs a cliff and jumps off but before he reaches the ground turns into an eagle.
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