History
Nature and Science
More details on the films can be found here.
| Year | Title | Comments |
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HISTORY | ||
| 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 |
| 1994 | Last Place on Earth | Masterpiece Theater, 7.5 hrs, based on Huntford's version |
| 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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NATURE AND SCIENCESee disclaimer | ||
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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. |