History
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More details on the films can be found here.
| Year | Title | Comments |
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HISTORY | ||
| 1912 | The Truth About the Pole | Frederick Cook produced and starred in this self promotional docudrama, in which he claims to have discovered the North Pole, 16 min, online here |
| 1913 | Roald Amundsen paa Sydpolen | Roald Amundsen at the South Pole, 1:15 minutes |
| 1918 | South - Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition | |
| 1922 | Nanook of the North |
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| 1929 | With Byrd at the South Pole | |
| 1930 | Mot ukjent land | (Norwegian documentary) |
| 1932 | 90 Degrees South: With Scott to the Antarctic | |
| 1948 | The Secret Land | documentary of the US Navy `Operation High Jump' expedition led by Admiral Byrd, narrated by 3 well known actors, first non-war-related film to win a Documentary Oscar Trailer |
| 1949 | Scott of the Antarctic | British melodramatic dramatization |
| 1954 | Roald Amundsen | Norwegian documentary |
| 1982 | Shackleton | UK TV movie, unavailable |
| 1983 | Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole | TV movie, unavailable |
| 1989 | Conquest of the South Pole | TV, unavailable, incl Alan Cumming, unemployed Edinburgh youths embark on a recreation of Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole. |
| 1990 | Trans Antarctica! | video copied from TV |
| 1990 | Nanook Revisted | Canadian, revisits site of Flaherty's filming
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| 1994 | Last Place on Earth | Masterpiece Theater, 7.5 hrs, based on Huntford's version |
| 1995> | Height of Courage: The Norman Vaughan Story | National Georgraphic TV: At age 89, Vaughan becomes the first to climb this 10,300 ft mtn, named after him by Admiral Byrd 60 years earlier. (He'd hoped to climb it again at 100, but died a few days after the birthday). |
| 1998 | Richard Byrd- Alone in Antarctica | VHS |
| 1998 | Matthew Henson | VHS |
| 1998 | Glory and Honor | VHS, TNT TV Movie about Henson and Peary |
| 1999 | American Experience: Alone on the Ice | on Byrd (VHS) |
| 1999 | Great Adventurers: Ernest Shackleton | |
| 1999 | Great Adventurers: Robert Falcon Scott | |
| 1999 | Frosset Hjerte (Frozen Heart: A Film About Roald Amundsen) | Norwegian and Czech, Canadian/English version 2000, VHS, post-South Pole race, Amundsen pines after married women, loses money, tries to retain fame |
| 2000 | Race for the Poles | VHS; S Pole race includes interviews with Huntford, Preston, and Spufford |
| 2000 | Poles Apart: American Women's Expedition | documentary, VHS |
| 2000 | The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | PBS NOVA, narrated by Liam Nielson |
| 2001 | Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure | IMAX, with Kevin Spacey |
| 2001 | IMAX Great North | with Nanook's grandson |
| 2002 | Shackleton - The Greatest Survival Story of All Time | A&E mini series, with Kenneth Branagh |
| 2002 | Antarctica: A Frozen History | History Channel |
| 2003 | Secrets of the Dead: Tragedy at the Pole | Solomon's version of race to South Pole |
| 2004 | Ice Bound | TV Movie of Jerri Nielson |
| 2005 | Modern Marvels: Subzero | History Channel |
| 2005 | Minik - New York ist kälter als der Nordpol |
German documentary
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| 2006 | Arctic Passage | NOVA |
| 2006 | The Ice King | in BBC Voyages of Discovery series, on Fridtjof Nansen |
| 2006 | Blizzard: Race to the Pole | 6 part UK BBC2 TV series, race to South Pole duplicated in Greenland using 1911 gear, supplies and strategies. The `Scott' team loses `Survivor Greenland' |
| 2006 | The Prize of the Pole
| documentary, about Minik and polar Inuit Robert Peary II (great-grandchild of RP)
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| 2006 | The Journals of Knud Rasmussen |
Canada/Denmark, based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen, Shaman vs arrival of Christianity
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| 2007 | Nunatak, for Live Earth 7/7/07 | YouTube |
| 2007 | Quest For Adventure | Reissued film set |
| With Byrd at the South Pole | ||
| First Flight over the North Pole | Byrd | |
| The Amundsen Polar Flight | to North Pole | |
| 2008 | Minik, the Lost Eskimo |
US, PBS: American Experience series, apparently a shorter adaption of the 2005 German film mentioned above
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| 2008 | Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica | Australia, historical footage and `dramatic reconstructions' |
| 2008 | Antarctica, 1939 - 1941 | National Archives footage of Byrd's Antarctic expedition |
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| 1991 | Antarctica - An Adventure of a Different Nature | Australia, IMAX |
| 1998 | Cousteau - Voyage to the Edge of the World - An Arctic Adventure | VHS |
| 2000 | Silo Alangotok: Inuit Observations on Climate Change | Canada |
| 2001 | The Polar Bears of Churchill | PBS |
| 2001 | Ice Worlds: Polar People | New Zealand
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| Life at the Edge | ||
| Secrets of the Crystal Ball | global climate change | |
| 2003 | Polar Bear Battlefields | BBC/Discovery Channel, Polar Bears vs walrus, seals |
| 2003 | Nature: A Mystery in Alaska, plus Sled Dogs | PBS-WNET |
| 2003 | Nature: Antarctica, The End of the Earth, plus Under Antarctic Ice | PBS-WNET |
| 2003 | NOVA: Mountain of Ice | Jon Krakauer climbs Vinson Massif in Antarctica |
| 2004 | Oil on Ice | documentary about oil drilling in Northern Alaska
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| 2005 | March of the Penguins | Oscar winner! |
| 2005 | Arctic Mission: The Great Adventure | Canada |
| People of the Ice | | |
| Washed Away | ||
| Climate on the Edge | ||
| Lords of the Arctic | ||
| 2006 | 60 Minutes: Global Warming | |
| 2006 | An Inconvenient Truth | Oscar winner! |
| 2006 | The Great Warming |
Canadian, includes interview with Sheila Watt-Cloutier
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| 2006 | The White Planet | Canada/France, exploration of Arctic wildlife, North Pole melt |
| 2006 | Untamed Antarctic: The World of Luc Jacquet | |
| 2007 | Farce of the Penguins | real footage with rude commentary- a silly parody of March... |
| 2007 | Planet Earth | BBC, episode `Ice Worlds' |
| 2007 | 60 Minutes: The Age of Warming | Antarctica (Apr 1) |
| 2007 | Arctic Tale | Documentary, polar bears, walrus and arctic melting... |
| 2007 | National Geographic: Masters of the Arctic Ice | Polar bears |
| 2007 | Return to Penguin City | Wild Kingdom documentary |
| 2007 | Ice People | Anne Aghion's documentary filmed in the Dry Valleys and McMurdo info here |
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World | Werner Herzog's documentary about McMurdo Station info here |
| 2008 | BLAST | Documentary about cosmologists working in Antarctica info here |
| 2008 | The Last Continent | Canada/France, scientists, sailors and filmmakers live on a schooner in the Antarctic to study the impact of global warming. Director Jean Lemire previously made `White Planet' about the Arctic. |
| 2008 | Whale Wars | Animal Planet (TV) 7 part reality series about the Sea Shepherd vs Japanese whaling ships in Antarctic waters. On DVD. info here |