Fresh
Watch them march to the very extremes of extremis, though, and it's easy to feel awe. Life must beget life, whatever the cost.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
March of the Penguins
In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way.
2005 · 1h 20m · G
Documentary, Family
Directed by
Luc Jacquet
,
Jérôme Maison
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March of the Penguins
Overview
Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in 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 chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!
Director and cast
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94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Some of the eggs and chicks freeze, and the parents' cries are painful to hear (probably more for us than for them).
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
French director Luc Jacquet and a team of incredibly brave (and heavily bundled) documentary filmmakers captured this complicated mating ritual with strikingly crisp photography that's both grand and intimate.
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
Fresh
This astonishing film, shot in the Antarctic, captures sights never seen before.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Fresh
Birth, death, romance, danger: All play a role in Jacquet's homage to a remarkably endearing creature.
Damon Smith, Time Out New York
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