Secrets of the Penguins

Secrets of the Penguins

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1 Season · 3 Episodes · Premiered April 20, 2025 · Ended April 20, 2025

On the 20th anniversary of National Geographic's Academy Award®-winning "March of the Penguins," SECRETS OF THE PENGUINS changes everything we ever believed to be true. From the emperor penguins' revelatory bonds of friendship to the gritty resolve of gentoos and rockhoppers and the astonishing ingenuity of the migrant penguins that reached deserts and far beyond, their incredible traditions and societies echo ours in ways we never dreamt possible — until now. For over two years, BAFTA and Emmy® Award-winning wildlife cinematographer Bertie Gregory has collaborated with world-leading scientists, using cutting-edge camera technology and unique access to capture three world-first episodes that resonate with our lives like never before.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

3 episodes
E01
Heart of the Emperors
Mon, Apr 21 2025 12:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
The emperors are the largest and strongest penguins, living in the coldest and most extreme environment on Earth. Embedded with an Antarctic colony, National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory encounters social skills never filmed before, discovering bonds forged from birth between family, friends and strangers are the difference between life and death.
E02
Survival of the Smartest
Mon, Apr 21 2025 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Millions of years ago, a group of penguins left the ice, riding powerful currents and arriving in strange new lands. They reshaped traditions for deserts and tropics—and even to live among humans. Tested to the extreme, they became perhaps the smartest of all penguins. National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory discovers the penguins' problem-solving, "talking" and enduring search for new worlds.
E03
Rebels with a Cause
Mon, Apr 21 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
It takes a special type of courageous penguin to survive the fierce Southern Ocean, but 40 million crowd its isolated, rocky outposts, and they are some of the most successful penguins on Earth. National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory follows the rockhoppers, gentoos and macaronis to discover a world of risk-takers, rebels and unconventional parents.

Cast

Blake Lively
Blake Lively as Narrator
Bertie Gregory
Bertie Gregory as Bertie Gregory

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