March Of The Penguins

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On 8th May 2006, experience the most extraordinary surprise hit of last year when Academy Award nominated March Of The Penguins arrives to buy on DVD courtesy of Warner Home Video.

Starring the cutest cast ever assembled this awe-inspiring, heart-melting tale from Warner Independent Pictures and National Geographic Feature Films has captured the imagination of audiences across the world, grossing over $70 million at the US box office alone while enjoying a specially extended run in cinemas across the UK. Packed with informative and fun special features, this DVD is one that the whole family can enjoy together.

Hailed as one of the finest cinematic experiences of 2005, Luc Jacquet's unique March Of The Penguins is narrated with his customary gravitas by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby, Batman Begins). Telling the remarkable and touching story of the Antarctic's Emperor penguin colonies as they fight their never-ending battle against the forces of nature, Jacquet's film is at times touching, at times terrifying, always beautiful and always inspiring.

Adored by critics & audiences nationwide, March Of The Penguins has been lauded as "Too cute to resist!" (Daily Telegraph), "Stunning" (The Times) and as "One of the finest true stories in ages!" (Daily Star). The Daily Mail hailed the film as celebrating "virtues not normally seen in the cinema" while Heat Magazine commented that "it will make you laugh and cry". This amount of rapturous acclaim may be unheard of for a documentary with an all-animal cast, but director Luc Jacquet's film was at the centre of an even greater media storm in the US: the penguins' habit of forming bonded pairs during the breeding season was interpreted as having implications for the ongoing Darwinism vs Intelligent Design debate.

Set against the barren splendour of the Antarctic, March Of The Penguins captures in extraordinary detail the remarkable lengths that Emperor penguins go to every year to breed their young. This most grueling of courtship rituals begins with a long, long walk and slide across hundreds of miles of ice, rock and snow in freezing temperatures that regularly dip below -20c.

Hampered by icy winds and polar storms the parent penguins risk starvation while guarding the single egg - not easy when contact between the egg and the frozen ground will prove fatal to the unborn chick - and face the perils of a trek back to the ocean in search of food, where predators including leopard seals lie in wait.