Product Description

Documents the courtship of penquins, as they journey through the Antarctic in search of a mate.
Genre: Documentary
Rating: G
Release Date: 29-NOV-2005
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3859 in DVD
• Brand: FREEMAN,MORGAN
• Released on: 2005-11-29
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 80 minutes

Amazon.com
March of the Penguins instantly qualifies as a wildlife classic, taking its place among other extraordinary films like Microcosmos and Winged Migration. French filmmaker Luc Jacquet and his devoted crew endured a full year of extreme conditions in Antarctica to capture the life cycle of Emperor penguins on film, and their diligence is evident in every striking frame of this 80-minute documentary. Narrated in soothing tones by Morgan Freeman, the film focuses on a colony of hundreds of Emperors as they return, in a single-file march of 70 miles or more, to their frozen breeding ground, far inland from the oceans where they thrive. At times dramatic, suspenseful, mischievous and just plain funny, the film conveys the intensity of the penguins' breeding cycle, and their treacherous task of protecting eggs and hatchlings in temperatures as low as 128 degrees below zero. There is some brief mating-ritual violence and sad moments of loss, but March of the Penguins remains family-friendly throughout, and kids especially will enjoy the Antarctic blue-ice vistas and the playful, waddling appeal of the penguins, who can be slapstick clumsy or magnificently graceful, depending on the circumstances. A marvel of wildlife cinematography, this unique film offers a front-row seat to these amazing creatures, balancing just enough scientific information with the entertaining visuals. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
The French wildlife filmmaker Luc Jacquet spent more than a year chronicling the course of an emperor-penguin colony in Antarctica, and what he discovered was a touching, self-sacrificing ritual of parenthood. Trekking for miles through stunning ice-castle landscapes, Jacquet frames the penguins' mating cycle-from courtship through the birth and raising of their newborns-as a severe and forbidding ballet that demonstrates the true meaning of survival and determination. Narrated by Morgan Freeman. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Horrible, It is not entertaining for any ages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition)
The movie is about a group of penguins who travel throughot the artic and survive most but not all problems that nature brings them.THe movie has many,mANY PENGUINS.
The movie has mainly one character. They are the penguins. THere are alsoone of the problems which is a polarbear which tries to eat them. Since animals cannot talk there is a narrator telling what they are doing.
The theme is to entertain which they are not doing a good job at.I would not reccomend this movie because it was made for people who need to know about penguins life style. Otherwise this movie is not interseting.I reviewed many people and they all did not like it.

A formal affair, Antarctic style
This ia a profound, sublime film that shows--close-up--the intense life-force and personality of Emperor penguins. At turns tender, funny, sad, and inspiring, it made me appreciate even more how we humans are sharing this great ark called Earth with amazing and wonderful creatures. Narrated with graceful style by Morgan Freeman. A must-have film for nature lovers.

THINK about it !!!
I love penguins, BUT haven't been able to look at a baby penguin the same way. This movie was so sad. If you look at the "making of the movie," it shows their ICE-BREAKER SHIP coming to pick up the film makers. It almost hits a penguin standing nearby. How many ice-breaker ships go there and tear up the ice where the penguins have to walk? Every country has SCIENTISTS there. Where does all the WASTE go from all the scientists and others living there? What happens to the ATMOSPHERE from the VEHICLES they drive. There are more and more TOURISTS and news REPORTERS going to see the ice melting--which means more ice-breaker SHIPS. What is really causing the ice to melt? What about the HOLES the scientists are continually DRILLING through the ice with the big machines. How many holes before it cracks the ice? When you CHIP AWAY at a block of ice doesn't it MELT FASTER?!