A large-format prequel based on a novel started by Walter Farley and finished by his son, Steven, this short feature tells the early story of the spirited and fleet-footed Arabian horse featured in Farley's classic
The Black Stallion. North Africa, 1945: A silver mare finds a desert cave and gives birth to a coal-black foal, who's left to fend for himself after she's captured by desert horsemen. Sometime later, adolescent Neera (Biana G. Tamimi) is riding with a camel caravan, sent by her family to wait out the end of the war someplace safer than their vast farm compound. Soldiers attack the caravan and Neera flees, only to be unseated when her camel stumbles....
Released:
2003
Rated:
G
Length:
48 mins