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An Antarctic Mystery ( French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a continuation of Edgar Allan Poe 's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
- Jules Verne
- 1897
Sep 11, 2009 · Whiteout: Directed by Dominic Sena. With Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short. U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica as the sun is about to set for six months.
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- Dominic Sena
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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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- Nanook of the North (1922) Director: Robert Flaherty. Ground zero for questions of ethics in documentary filmmaking, Nanook of the North’s controversial reputation is down to the long shadow cast by questions of its authenticity.
- The Great White Silence (1924) Director: Herbert G. Ponting. Until a restoration by the BFI was unveiled at the London Film Festival in 2010, the footage of The Great White Silence had been unseen since the 1950s.
- With Byrd at the South Pole (1930) Photography: Joseph Rucker and Willard Van der Veer. With the other true-life polar attempts on our list ending in tragedy or without success, it seems we ought to include a more uplifting documentary account.
- Dirigible (1931) Director: Frank Capra. “I’m going to the South Pole! Me and my gas bag!” announces Jack Holt early in Frank Capra’s Dirigible. Following in the narrative vein of his earlier adventure films with the actor, Submarine (1928) and Flight (1929), and perhaps inspired by With Byrd at the South Pole, Capra digs into his little black book of US navy contacts to facilitate some impressive aerial escapades.
Feb 4, 2021 · When a group of ten winter crew members of an Antarctic research station end up dead or missing, the summer commander has to piece together what happened.
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Jun 25, 1982 · The Thing: Directed by John Carpenter. With Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon. A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Sep 9, 2009 · The Thing. Cold and unforgiving, Antarctica can seem like a pretty foreboding place — especially when your camp has been infiltrated by a hostile, shape-shifting alien being who was foolishly...
