French director, Luc Jacquet's March of the Penguins follows the mating rituals of the emperor penguin, one of the most resilient animals on earth. Each summer, after a nourishing period of deep-sea feeding, the penguins pop up onto the ice and begin their procession across the frozen tundra of Antarctica. Walking in single .. Read more
| Starring | Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman (Pres/Narr) |
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| Director | Luc Jacquet |
| Genres | Documentary |
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French director, Luc Jacquet's March of the Penguins follows the mating rituals of the emperor penguin, one of the most resilient animals on earth. Each summer, after a nourishing period of deep-sea feeding, the penguins pop up onto the ice and begin their procession across the frozen tundra of Antarctica. Walking in single file, they are a sight to behold. Hundreds converge from every direction, moving instinctively toward their mating ground. Once there, they mingle and chatter until they find the perfect mate a monogamous match that will last a year, through the brutal winter and into the spring. During that time, the mother will birth an egg and then leave for the ocean to feed again. The father will stay to protect the egg through the freezing blizzards and pure darkness of winter, which would be deadly to practically any other species. Finally, with spring, the egg hatches and the baby penguins are born. Mothers return from the sea to reunite with their families and feed the starving newborns, while the fathers are finally relieved of their protective duties after months without food.
| Starring | Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman (Pres/Narr) |
|---|---|
| Director | Luc Jacquet |
| Studio | WARNER BROS |
| Original title | La marche de l'empereur |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 17 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 17 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 16 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 17 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Collections | Top 400 All-Time Rentals |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | DVD: English, Audio Description Blu-ray: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English HD DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2005 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 09 Jul 2010 To Rent: DVD: 08 May 2006 Blu-ray: 07 May 2007 HD DVD: 07 May 2007 |
| LOVEFiLM Instant | £2.49 |
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Spectacular!
This is better than any 1/2 hour documentary that appears on tv! Its got fabulous filming and focuses on the penguin's way of life and how they exist. Its a... read more »
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Morgan Freeman Rules
i watched this after frozen planet but I think if I had watched it before it would have been so much better. The only thing that made this amazing was Morgan ... read more »
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Entertaining documentary
Entertaining documentary on penguins, I watched this several years ago and thought it was very interesting then and its still as entertaining now.
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absolutely amazing
non animal lovers might find this a bit teedious because its basically a documentary about penguins, but for the animal lovers out there you will love it, ... read more »
It's a safe bet that, if not for the unprecedented popularity of March of the Penguins, we wouldn't be seeing this National Geographic nature film on the big screen. The photography is impressive. Husband and wife filmmaking team Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson have drawn on eight years' spent filming in the arctic. The nephew of screenwriter Irving Ravetch (Hud), Adam Ravetch is a marine biologist and cameraman whose footage has been used in dozens of TV documentaries, including the BBC's... Read more
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