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Contents. Encounters at the End of the World. Encounters at the End of the World is a 2007 American documentary film by Werner Herzog about Antarctica and the people who choose to spend time there. It was released in North America on June 11, 2008, and distributed by ThinkFilm. [ 2 ] At the 81st Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best ...
Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. Herzog's voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about "fluffy penguins", but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.
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Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. Herzog's voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about "fluffy penguins", but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.
Just a few years after he shivered his way through the critical turkey Snow Dogs, Paul Walker came along with another wintry canine adventure — also produced by Disney — and melted the hearts of critics and audiences alike. Very loosely based on the true story of a 1958 Japanese expedition to Antarctica, Eight Below taught us four things ...
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- 9 Fortitude
- 8 The Thing
- 7 The Terror
- 6 Against The Ice
- 5 The North Water
- 4 The Grey
- 3 Lovers of The Arctic Circle
- 2 Antarctica
- 1 Shackleton
The always wonderful Mads Mikkelsen outdoes himself here, giving an incomparable performance as a man named Overgård, who has crashed his plane in the Arctic Circle. He waits for rescue but keeps himself busy, rigging up fishing lines and sending distress calls while taking shelter in the disabled plane. Rescue appears over the horizon in the form ...
It only ran for three seasons, but Fortitude made a hell of an impact, set on a small island in the Norwegian Arctic where almost every single resident seems to be running from secrets in their present or past. The cast is outstanding, including Christopher Ecclestone, Sophie Gråbøl, Michael Gambon, Stanley Tucci, Richard Dormer, Jessica Raine, and...
An Antarctic research station is the setting for John Carpenter’s 1982 cult horror film, The Thing. A strange encounter involving a sled dog leads R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) and the station doctor to go and check out the nearby Norwegian research station, where everyone seems to be dead, including a bizarre humanoid corpse which they transport ba...
Season one of The Terror is based on Dan Simmons’ novel of the same name, which in itself was based on the true story of Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition which left for the Arctic in 1845, involved two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, getting stuck in the ice, and resulting in the deaths of Franklin and nearly two dozen others. Franklin is pl...
Another true story of a fraught expedition, the 2022 film is the tale of the 1909 journey to East Greenland to locate the records of the previous disastrous Denmark Expedition three years before. Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldauis Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, who, along with a single (and inexperienced) volunteer, Iver Iversen (Joe Cole) have set...
It’s curious that this five-part British miniseries has gone largely under the radar, given that it stars man-of-the-moment Colin Farrell, Stephen Graham, and Peter Mullan, among others. It details a 19th-century whaling expedition into the Arctic. But too many of the men on board have unsavory pasts, and tensions are soon out of control. It’s a vi...
In The Grey, Liam Neeson is John Ottway, an unhappy man who works killing wolves for an oil company in Alaska to protect the pipeline workers. Heading back to Anchorage on a small plane for a break, the plane crashes, killing the bulk of those onboard. Ottway and his fellow survivors already face an uphill battle in the freezing terrain, and then, ...
This romantic Spanish drama from 1998 is less heavy on expedition, more heavy on love. Otto and Ana meet when they are eight years old, and in a sticky situation when his father and her mother also meet, and decide to marry. They don’t speak of their mutual feelings until high school, though, and it’s a conversation about their mutual love of the A...
This Japanese film was such a hit in its home country that until 1997 and the release of Princess Mononoke, it was the biggest box office success of a Japanese film. There are several reasons for that: the spectacular setting of scientists fighting to return from the South Pole (based on yet another doomed expedition, this one in 1958), a beautiful...
Kenneth Branagh stars as Sir Ernest Shackleton, leader of one of history’s most famous unsuccessful expeditions (although miraculously, not a single crew member was lost in the middle of incredible peril and hardship). In 1919, Shackleton set off on the Endurance, hoping to become the first team to cross the Antarctic continent with sled dogs. His ...
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Nov 20, 2008 · While Herzog follows the traditional Discovery Channel track (including filming some penguins), his narration delves into deeper themes loneliness, the meaning of perception, the inevitable ...
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The 3D movie sequel to 2006’s Happy Feet is again directed by George Mitchell, with voices by Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Pink and others. The Emperor Penguin, Mumbles, the star of Happy Feet, is now the father of Erik and there are new character arrivals on the Antarctic scene. After the ...
