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- Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Michael Palin undertakes a journey by the most direct route possible with the most land to cross from the North Pole to the South Pole.
- A young penguin, driven by his instinct, embarks on his first major trip to an unknown destination.
- Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure is a giant-screen film that tells the dramatic true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's now-legendary 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. A testament to heroism and human endurance, the 28-man crew survived nearly two years in the Antarctic when its ship, the Endurance, was trapped and then crushed by pack ice.
- On March 5, 2010, while filming a snowmobiling segment in the Sierra Nevada back-country, Grant Korgan burst-fractured his L1 vertebrae and was told he would never walk again. Despite his prognosis, Grant Korgan and his wife Shawna, focused on the goal of 120% recovery. On January 17, 2012, along with two seasoned explorers, Grant accomplished the impossible and became the first spinal cord injured athlete to literally PUSH himself--nearly 100 miles (the final degree of latitude) to the most inhospitable place on the planet: the bottom of the globe, the geographic South Pole.
- Account of Admiral Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole. Academy award winning cinematography.
- Shackleton and Scott were men with a common goal: the South Pole. However, divisions between them grew as jealousy and intrigue intensified their rivalry. The consequence of their polar exploits is as shocking and fascinating now as it was during that closing phase of the age of exploration. This documentary draws upon a wealth of historical knowledge, and investigates the social setting and psychology of these men who dramatically, and fatally, pushed the limits of human endurance. Their amazing individual exploits marked them for greatness, but whose memory and mark on history will survive in the new millennium? Rivals for the Pole seeks to answer this question as well as setting the historical record straight on Shackleton and Scott.
- Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, the most forbidding continent on Planet Earth. It is a huge land covered with ice as thick as three miles, seemingly invulnerable, cold and dark for eight months of the year. Yet Antarctica is also a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its edges, arguably the most stunning, breathtaking and still-pristine place on earth. The one constant is that it is constantly changing, every season, every day, every hour. I've been fortunate to travel to Antarctica many times; most recently with 3D cameras, a first for the continent. The result is our new film, Antarctica: On the Edge.
- In 1989, the German polar explorer Arved Fuchs and the South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner set out together to reach the South Pole on skis without sled dogs or motorized technology, and then cross the entire Antarctic continent. Even at the beginning there are problems, because the onward transport to the starting point by plane can not be carried out on schedule. Finally, on 6 November, the adventurers set out from the Patriot Hills Base Camp on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf for pole. Quickly the completely different character traits of the two men are showing up. Messner is impetuous and urges for speed. The quiet Fuchs splits his forces and consistently goes his pace with all planned breaks. On New Year's Eve, the expedition participants were happily greeted by the women and men of the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station at their camp. The continental crossing ends at McMurdo Station near the Ross Ice Shelf. A camera team of the Südwestfunk under the direction of the legendary German documentary filmmaker Wilhelm Bittorf accompanies the expedition and captures one of the last great adventures of modern times in impressive pictures.
- We know the natural Antarctic, its prodigies that make it a unique territory, with layers of ice almost five kilometers thick, winds of impossible speeds and temperatures as cold as anywhere else on the planet. We know scientific Antarctica, the projects that study climate change, life on Mars, the origin of the marine currents of all the oceans of the world. We know the adventurous Antarctic, in which Amundsen, Scott, and Shackleton inscribed their name in History. We know many Antarctica, but not politics. And it exists. On the occasion of the commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Madrid Protocol, which protects this fascinating ecosystem, we will produce a documentary and a book on the Antarctic spirit, which consecrates the sixth continent to peace, science and the protection of the environment. We will investigate if that spirit represents the best of the human being or if it is a great hypocrisy. From the hand of the only inhabitants of this remote place, the scientists and the military that help them, we will understand the round-trip relationships between our societies and this white desert. Perhaps in Antarctica, there are some clues about the threats that the human facing and about the solutions that can lead us to a better life. Antarctica is the only territory in the world where all countries have agreed to promote peace, science and the environment. But is that spirit real or hypocritical? Can we save Antarctica without first saving ourselves?
- An Oscar-nominated account of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1958 recording the first crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea.
- One of Australia's most famous photographers and explorers, Frank Hurley, presents this absorbing film on the history of Australia's first expeditions to the Antarctic continent between 1911 and 1954. In the summer of 1911, a group of pioneers set off from Hobart on the tall ship Aurora to an unknown land. Their send-off was captured by Hurley in remarkable, archival footage. Buffeted by blizzards, and with the ever-present threat of crevasses, they made Cape Dennison in Commonwealth Bay their base for one year. Hurley describes his subsequent expeditions to the region with Shackleton, Wilkins and Campbell. Campbell's expedition in 1947 saw the establishment of scientific stations at Heard and Macquarie Islands. In 1954, Hurley joined the expedition led by Phillip Law on the Danish ice-breaker, the Kista Dan. Hurley's original footage shows the ship edging its way across the pack ice to the safety of the harbour where the first permanent Australian post in the Antarctic, Mawson Station was established. A rare film which reveals the true hardship and courage of these early pioneers.
- A documentary about Antarctica.
- When a Lion eats meth he goes on a killing rampage
- The daily life of professionals who make their living at sea on different boats.
- Lewis Pugh has 10 seconds before he plunges into the freezing Arctic Ocean, where he swims a kilometre across Antarctica, wearing nothing but a Speedo and a swim cap, a feat never thought possible. 'Ordinary' humans would probably die within minutes in this icy water! How can his naked body cope with these conditions for so long? And why on earth would anyone want to do such a crazy thing?
- "Planet Earth" travels around the Earth, finding where the sun always shines and where it's rarely seen. Next, they find where water is abundant and where it's scarce.
- The polar caps have the most extreme seasonal contrasts, growing and melting vast ice masses, so wildlife adapts by annual migrations. The majority of Antartica is a vast barren permafrost. Only 3% of the coast and peninsular peaks are where life migrates to in the spring, for a short fertile summer, attracted by rich supplies of krill and fish. Only the Emperor penguin males breed 4 months in winter 100 miles inland. The Arctic has a more complete fauna which migrates back North from the continent. Here, the Polar bear is threatened because global warming defrosts its seal hunt platform ice too fast.
- Scientists study the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet.
- To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its launch, this film tells the remarkable story of how Hubble revealed the awe and wonder of our universe and how a team of daring astronauts risked their lives to keep it working.
- In March 2014, a team of astronomers stunned the scientific world when they announced that their BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole had possibly detected a signal of "gravitational waves" from the early universe. This is the inside story of the hunt for gravitational waves from the beginning of time. How the BICEP2 team came close to making one of the greatest discoveries of the century - and what happened when it all began to unravel.