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August Schellenberg has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2000s.
Recurring themes

Lassie
2005
Adventure · Drama

Young Black Stallion
2003
Adventure · Drama

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
1995
Drama · Adventure

Fly Away Home
1996
Adventure · Drama

Flicka
2006
Family · Drama

Black Beauty
1994
Family · Adventure

Lassie Come Home
1943
Family · Adventure

The Secret Life of Bees
2008
Family · Adventure

In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission.
Dir. Frank Marshall · With Paul Walker, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs

When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for long hours, through harsh weather and terrain. This young man will need a lot of courage and a strong will to complete this race.
Dir. Charles Haid · With Mackenzie Astin, Kevin Spacey, Brian Cox

Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Lothaire Bluteau, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Dir. Yves Simoneau · With Anna Paquin, Chevez Ezaneh, August Schellenberg

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer

When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.
Dir. Simon Wincer · With Jason James Richter, Keiko, Lori Petty
Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship is captain John Wesley and his son, Max, who isn't really pleased about his father's job, but doesn't have the gut to say so. Along the way, Willy reunites with Jesse.
Dir. Sam Pillsbury · With Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley
In 1889, seventeen men die under mysterious circumstances, and spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but a shell of a community.
Dir. S.S. Wilson · With Michael Gross, Sara Botsford, Billy Drago

as Randolph Johnson
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
Dir. Dwight H. Little · With Jason James Richter, Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson