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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.
- Photo: Universal Pictures. 20 votes. The Thing. A sci-fi classic, The Thing takes arctic exploration to horrifying new heights. This chilling masterpiece combines an isolated and treacherous environment with a terrifying extraterrestrial creature, building a suspenseful atmosphere that leaves crowds on the edge of their seats.
- Photo: Against the Ice. 16 votes. Against the Ice. Based on true events, Against the Ice showcases the harrowing tale of two explorers stranded in the unforgiving Arctic landscape.
- Photo: Arctic. 17 votes. Arctic. Delving into the challenges of surviving an arctic landscape, Arctic tells a gripping story of an air-crash survivor struggling to stay alive while awaiting rescue.
- Photo: 30 Days of Night / Sony Pictures Releasing. 8 votes. 30 Days of Night. In a unique take on arctic exploration, 30 Days of Night presents a thrilling story set in Alaska's polar night where residents must fend off bloodthirsty vampires.
- 10 Arctic
- 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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25 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Chloe and Theo. 2015 1h 21m PG-13. 5.7 (1.8K) Rate. 24 Metascore. From the northern ice comes a gentler kind of hero. Director Ezna Sands Stars Theo Ikummaq Dakota Johnson Ashley Springer. 2. Brother Bear. 2003 1h 25m G. 6.9 (124K) Rate. 48 Metascore.
Arctic is a 2018 Icelandic survival drama film directed by Joe Penna and written by Penna and Ryan Morrison. The film is an international co-production between Iceland and the United States, and stars Mads Mikkelsen as a man stranded in the Arctic. The film premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and was released in theatres on 1 February 2019.
- $2 million
- Joseph Trapanese
- Chris Lemole, Tim Zajaros, Noah C. Haeussner
- Mads Mikkelsen
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Mar 18, 2020 · Fortunately for those viewers, there are actually quite a few films set in the frozen north. There just seems to be something about the bleak, snow-covered expanse of the Arctic that makes it perfect for movies about the testing of the individual. Here are ten Arctic movies to watch rather than The Call of the Wild .
Jan 31, 2019 · Arctic: Directed by Joe Penna. With Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir, Tintrinai Thikhasuk. A man stranded in the Arctic after a plane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown.
