Feathers fly in “Valiant,” Vanguard Animation’s debut film about the dangerous missions of carrier pigeons during World War II. It’s perhaps the first animated kids’ film that can claim to be “based ...

The animated tale “Valiant” certainly is not a documentary about pigeons, yet it captures the essence of those omnipresent urban scavengers: Mildly annoying, sometimes really aggravating, often so ...

Unless I’m greatly mistaken, American kindergartners do not spend a great deal of school time studying the nuances of World War II. British tots, apparently, do — or so one assumes after viewing ...

The summer's final entry for families is "Valiant," a computer-animated picture about a plucky English homing pigeon who signs up for a dangerous mission in World War II. That's not exactly a story ...