March of the penguins [videorecording - DVD] / Luc Jacquet

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [London] : Warner Bros. U.K., 2005Description: 1 videodisc (85 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inUniform titles:
  • Marche de l̕empereur (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Production credits:
  • Narrated by Morgan Freeman; Directed by Luc Jacquet; Produced by Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Emmanuel Priou
Awards:
  • Received Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 78th Annual Academy Awards
Scope and content: Every year thousands of emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They are birds, but they do not fly. They are aquatic animals, but this time they will not swim. Instead, they walk - marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This is an amazing, awe-inspiring, all-ages, true-life tale touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcentent beauty and staggering you-are-there drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the face of the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable, fuzzy chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!
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Based on the story by Luc Jacquet

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Narrated by Morgan Freeman; Directed by Luc Jacquet; Produced by Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Emmanuel Priou

Every year thousands of emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They are birds, but they do not fly. They are aquatic animals, but this time they will not swim. Instead, they walk - marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This is an amazing, awe-inspiring, all-ages, true-life tale touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcentent beauty and staggering you-are-there drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the face of the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable, fuzzy chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!

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Received Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 78th Annual Academy Awards

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