Nature and Science Films

  • More details on the films can be found on IMDB
  • Fiction films are listed here
Pole Year Title Comments
S 1991 Antarctica - An Adventure of a Different Nature Australia, IMAX
N/S 1992 Pole to Pole with Michael Palin 8 part TV documentary; travels from North to South Pole (& many countries in between)
N 1998 Cousteau - Voyage to the Edge of the World - An Arctic Adventure VHS
N 2000 Silo Alangotok: Inuit Observations on Climate Change Canada
N 2001 The Polar Bears of Churchill PBS
N 2001 Ice Worlds: Polar People New Zealand
Life at the Edge
Secrets of the Crystal Ball global climate change
N 2003 Polar Bear Battlefields BBC/Discovery Channel, Polar Bears vs walrus, seals
N 2003 Nature: A Mystery in Alaska, plus Sled Dogs PBS-WNET
S 2003 Nature: Antarctica, The End of the Earth, plus Under Antarctic Ice PBS-WNET
S 2003 NOVA: Mountain of Ice Jon Krakauer climbs Vinson Massif in Antarctica
N 2004 Oil on Ice documentary about oil drilling in Northern Alaska
S 2005 March of the Penguins Oscar winner!
N 2005 Arctic Mission: The Great Adventure Canada
People of the Ice
Washed Away
Climate on the Edge
Lords of the Arctic
N 2006 60 Minutes: Global Warming
N 2006 An Inconvenient Truth Oscar winner!
N 2006 The Great Warming Canadian, includes interview with Sheila Watt-Cloutier
N 2006 The White Planet Canada/France, exploration of Arctic wildlife, North Pole melt
N 2006 Untamed Antarctic: The World of Luc Jacquet
S 2006 Hub Culture Retrospectives: ANTARCTICA timelapse views and score by Aerostatic
S 2007 Farce of the Penguins real footage with rude commentary- a silly parody of March...
N/S 2007 Planet Earth BBC, episode `Ice Worlds'
S 2007 60 Minutes: The Age of Warming Antarctica (Apr 1)
N 2007 Arctic Tale Documentary, polar bears, walrus and arctic melting...
N 2007 National Geographic: Masters of the Arctic Ice Polar bears
S 2007 Return to Penguin City Wild Kingdom documentary
S 2007 Ice People Anne Aghion's documentary filmed in the Dry Valleys and McMurdo
S 2007 Encounters at the End of the World Werner Herzog's documentary about McMurdo Station
S 2008 BLAST Documentary about cosmologists working in Antarctica
S 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.
S 2008- Whale Wars Animal Planet (TV) reality series about the Sea Shepherd vs Japanese whaling ships in Antarctic waters. On DVD.
S 2009 Terra Antarctica Jon Bowermaster kayaks the Antarctic peninsula
N 2009 Art from the Arctic Artists and scientists travel together to the Arctic, in 2003-2005
S 2009 Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warming Past present and future of scientific exploration including latest discoveries on climate change
S 2010 Challenging Antarctica New Zealand, reissue of 1990s docs: Hell On Ice, Ice Pilots, Whales
S 2010 Discovering Antarctica New Zealand, reissue of 1990s docs: Icebound: 100 years of Antarctic Discovery, Solid Water Liquid Rock, South Georgia - Legacy of Lust
S 2011Nova: Secrets Beneath the Ice clues to Earth's future underneath Antarctic ice
N 2012 The Polar Explorer Scientific expedition through Northwest Passage
S 2015 Antarctica: A Year on the Ice Nature and people who work at Antarctic stations
S 2016 Antarctic Dream Argentina; mariners sail to Antarctica in custom sailboat
S 2017 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown - Antarctica season 9 episode 5; Bourdain visits Antarctica
N 2018 The Arctic Expedition: A Historic Journey To Find The Truth Scientists on Canadian Coast Guard ice cutter Amundsen
N 2018 SILA and the Gatekeepers of the Arctic Inuit culture and community in Greenland
N 2019 The Unknown Life of Antarctica German; about people living in Antarctica
Nature and Science Films