Release Date: Jan. 3, 2012
Price: DVD $19.99, Blu-ray $29.99
Studio: Virgil Films/National Geographic
Lioness Ma di Tau means business when it comes to her cubs in The Last Lions.
Filled with dazzling views of the African jungle and eye-opening adventure scenarios, The Last Lions is a documentary film that focuses on a proud lioness and her three cubs as they confront such formidable foes as crocodiles, a herd of buffaloes and a rival pride of big cats.
The 2011 movie was made by the South African husband-and-wife team Dereck and Beverly Joubert, veterans of wildlife moviemaking, and narrated by actor Jeremy Irons (The Mission).
The real-life saga of lioness Ma di Tau and her cubs unfolds inside the reality that lions are vanishing from the wild: In the last 50 years, lion populations have reportedly plummeted from 450,000 to as few as 20,000. With The Last Lions, the Jouberts offer a narrative story while posing the question of whether Ma di Tau and her young will be the last lions.
The PG-rated film received a limited release to U.S. theaters in February 2011 and received very positive reviews from the critics.
Bonus features on the DVD and Blu-ray include behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, filmmaker interviews and information on National Geographic’s Big Cat Initiative.
Here’s a trailer to meow at – look at those lions!:
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