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Eight Below: Directed by Frank Marshall. With Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Wendy Crewson. Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival.
- (69K)
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Frank Marshall
- 2006-02-17
Eight Below, originally titled Antartica: The Journey Home, [2] is a 2006 American survival drama film, a remake based on the 1983 Japanese film Antarctica by Toshirô Ishidô, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Tatsuo Nogami, and Susumu Saji.
Inspired by a true story, Eight Below is an exciting action-adventure about loyalty and the bonds of friendship set in the extreme wilderness of Antarctica. The film tells the story of three members of a scientific expedition: Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker), his best friend, Cooper (Jason Biggs), and a rugged American geologist (Bruce Greenwood ...
- (42)
- Paul Walker
- Frank Marshall
Dale R Based on a true story of eight sled dogs that get left in Antarctica during winter and their owner, played by Paul Walker, trying to get back to them. There is some solid acting in...
- (153)
- Frank Marshall
- PG
- Paul Walker
The Endurance: Directed by George Butler. With Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow, David Cale. In December, 1914, the Endurance encountered ice packs before reaching 60º South - 400 miles north of Antarctica; an omen. The plan was to land at Vahsel Bay, which had never been done.
- (2.2K)
- Documentary, History
- George Butler
- 2001-12-21
Could the dogs (six huskies and two malamutes) really have survived unsheltered for five months, scavenging for themselves through an Antarctic winter? I learn from Variety that “Eight Below” is inspired by a Japanese film, itself based on real events, but in the 1958 “true story,” seven of nine dogs died.
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure is a giant-screen film that tells the dramatic true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's now-legendary 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
