| S |
1962 |
Manhaul |
AUS; documentary episode of The General Motors hour. Man is murdered at Antarctic base |
| S |
1963 |
Vostok 900 |
AUS; Short documentary of journey from Wilkes to Vostok stations in Antarctica |
| N |
1967 |
Netsilik series |
Canada, 21 episode documentary about the Netsilik Inuit in Arctic Canada |
| N |
1968 |
Bare et liv - historien om Fridtjof Nansen |
Norway/USSR; biographical drama about Nansen |
| N |
1973 |
Cry of the Wild |
Canada; studying wolves in NWT and high Arctic Canada |
| S |
1976 |
Voyage to the Edge of the World |
France; Jacques Cousteau on Calypso to Antarctica in 1975, where he conducted some of the first Antarctic dives |
| S |
1979 |
L'Antarctique, continent vierge |
France; episode of Les dossiers de l'écran, with Jacques-Yves Cousteau |
| S |
1980 |
The Cutting Edge |
Short documentary about Yûichirô Miura, who skied down an Antarctic mountain (after skiing down Mt Everest) |
| N |
1982 |
Inupiatun: In the Manner of the Eskimo |
Canada; documentary about Inuit in the NWT
 |
| N/S |
1983 |
To the Ends of the Earth |
UK; 3 year expedition led by Ranulph Fiennes crossing both poles |
| N |
1985 |
Inughuit - folket vid jordens navel |
Sweden; documentary about Inughuit people in Thule, Greenland
|
| N |
1984 |
The Land That Devours Ships |
Canada; team finds and explores the ship HMS Breadalbane, buried under the Canadian ice for 150 years. ‘Introduced by HRH Prince Charles’ |
| N |
1987 |
From the Pole to the Equator |
Italy/W Germany; documentary, some near North Pole |
| 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) |
| S |
1993 |
The Last Husky |
AUS; Documentary, the last huskies from Mawson base moved to Minnesota |
| S |
1996 |
Breaking the Ice |
AUS; TV mini series, voyage to Antarctica |
| N |
2000 |
Silo Alangotok: Inuit Observations on Climate Change |
Canada |
| S |
2000 |
I kajak til verdens ende |
Denmark; 2 Danish adventurers travel around Greenland and visit areas of former explorers |
| S |
2001 |
Expedition Sirius 2000 |
Denmark; documentary about expedition to Greenland that included the Danish Crown Prince |
| N |
2001 |
The Polar Bears of Churchill |
PBS documentary |
| N |
2001 |
Great North |
Canada; Inuit traditions and Arctic landscape |
| N |
2001 |
Ice Worlds: Polar People |
New Zealand
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Life at the Edge | |
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Secrets of the Crystal Ball |
global climate change |
| S |
2002 |
South to Antarctica |
documentary |
| S |
2002 |
Dinosaurs of the Ice Forest |
S1E5 of ‘Prehistoric Planet’ |
| N |
2003 |
Time Machine: The Hunt for the Lost Squadron |
TV movie; recovering and restoring a WW2 fighter plane buried under Greenland ice for 50 years |
| N |
2003 | Polar Bear Battlefields |
BBC/Discovery Channel, Polar Bears vs walrus, seals |
| 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 |
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People of the Ice | |
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Washed Away | |
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Climate on the Edge | |
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Lords of the Arctic | |
| N |
2005 |
Survivorman |
Canada; Documentary series; episodes ‘Canadian Arctic’ (S1E5), ‘Arctic Tundra’ (S3E3) on Baffin Island |
| N |
2006 |
Pedal to the Midnight Sun |
Documentary, 2 guys bike across Alaska from the Pacific to the Arctic ocean |
| N |
2006 |
East 3: Exploring a Frozen Frontier |
UK; Documentary, Life in Inuvik
 |
| N |
2006 |
The Call of Wild |
Documentary about life cycles of a polar bear & cub and walrus & calf |
| N |
2006 |
Are We Changing Planet Earth? |
UK; Documentary, David Attenborough |
| 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 |
| N |
2006 |
Nature: Antarctica |
PBS TV Series; DVD has Antarctica: The End of Earth (S18E1 & E2, 1999), and
Under Antarctic Ice (S21E7, 2003) |
| N |
2007 |
Nature: Alaska |
PBS TV Series: DVD had A Mystery in Alaska (S21E14, 2003) and
Sled Dogs (S18E4, 1999). |
| 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 |
| N |
2007 |
Abandoned in the Arctic |
Great great grandson of polar explorer Adolphus Greely recreates his 1881 journey from Ellesmere Island to 250 miles south |
| N |
2007 |
Into the Arctic |
Oil painter Cory Trepanier travels with family to the Arctic to paint. Sequel ‘Into the Arctic II’ in 2011 |
| N |
2007 |
Invisible |
UK; Documentary about people in high Arctic, including the discovery that their breast milk was highly contaminated
|
| S |
2008 |
At the Edge of the World |
Sea Shepherd Antarctic campaign vs Japanese whaling fleet |
| N |
2008 |
Arctic Hip Hop |
Canada; Documentary, Hip Hop workshops in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut |
| N |
2008 |
Melting Lands |
Canada; documentary on effects of global warming on a small northern Inuit
community |
| 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 |
2008-2015 |
Whale Wars |
Animal Planet TV reality series about the Sea Shepherd vs Japanese
whaling ships in Antarctic waters. |
| 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 |
| N |
2010 |
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change |
Canada; Documentary, first Inuktitut language film about Inuit communities and climate change
|
| N |
2010 |
Cold Race |
Norway; 4 part series, oil and gas resources as ice melts |
| N/S |
2011 |
Frozen Planet |
BBC/Discovery Channel; 10 episodes on both Polar regions. Reviews annoyed
that climate change science is minimized |
| N |
2011 |
Arctic: Life in the Deep Freeze |
Documentary, ‘Human Planet’ S1E3. Inuit in Northern Canada and Greenland.
|
| N |
2011 |
Ice Pilots NWT |
Canada; Documentary, Some episodes in Arctic, eg S2E6, S2E7, S3E1, S3E7, S5E2, S5E7 |
| N |
2011 |
Arctic |
UK; TV mini-series, 5 episodes. Bruce Parry visits native and modern people who live in Arctic in Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Nordic Russia, Norwegian Lapland and Svalbard.
|
| S |
2011 |
Nova: Secrets Beneath the Ice |
clues to Earth's future underneath Antarctic ice |
| N |
2012 |
The Polar Explorer |
Scientific expedition through Northwest Passage |
| S |
2012 |
The Last Ocean |
NZ; documentary about the Ross Sea in Antarctica |
| S |
2012 |
Penguins 3D or Adventures of the Penguin King |
UK; Documentary, King Penguin seeks a mate |
| N |
2012 |
Chasing Ice |
National Geographic photographer uses time-lapse cameras in the Arctic
to show the changing glaciers |
| S |
2012 |
Haute Cuisine |
French; story of Danièle Delpeuch, who cooked for Mitterrand and then for
a French Antarctic station |
| N |
2012 |
North of the Sun |
Norway; 2 young men surf through the winter on a remote Arctic Norwegian island. |
| N |
2012 |
The Big Thaw |
Canada; TV series, 2 young brothers travel the world examining water,
episode S1E4 of The Water Brothers |
| N |
2012 |
Ice Diamonds |
France; documentary about diamond extraction in Arctic permafrost |
| N |
2012 |
IMAX: To the Arctic |
Follows polar bear and her cubs |
| S |
2013 |
Beyond the Challenge |
Belgian explorers cross Antarctica by wind and kites |
| N |
2013 |
Polar Bears: Ice Bear |
Canada, filmed over 12 months |
| N |
2013 |
Deadly Pole to Pole |
TV series; Arctic (E1S1), Somerset Island (E1S2) |
| N |
2013 |
The Other Side of the Ice |
US/Canada; Documentary, broken family sets sail to the Northwest Passage |
| S |
2013 |
The Burden of Fire |
Estonia; Documentary. Fire at Vostok Station in 1982 destroys power plant. |
| S |
2013 |
Antarctica: A Year on the Ice |
Nature and people who work at Antarctic stations |
| S |
2014 |
Dr Oz |
S1E8 of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver; includes Antarctic tourism |
| N |
2014 |
Black Ice |
Documentary about Greenpeace ship protesting drilling in the Arctic Ocean and being detained by Russians. |
| N |
2014 |
An Arctic Space Odyssey |
Norway; Documentary, isolated station in the Arctic |
| S |
2014 |
Metallica in Antarctica |
Metallica does a concert at the Argentine Antarctica Base Carlini |
| S |
2014 |
Fast Ice: Rescue from Antarctica |
UK; Short documentary. Rescue of passengers stranded on the MV Akademik Shokalskiy trapped in ice in East Antarctica |
| S |
2015 |
Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale |
UK; Birth of last penguin chick of the season, narrated by Kate Winslet |
| S |
2015 |
Antarctica: Ice and Sky |
France; Documentary about Global Warming by Luc Jacquet |
| N |
2015 |
The Great Alone |
Documentary about Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey |
| N |
2015 |
The Hand of Franklin |
Canada; 4 guys row the Northwest Passage and see climate change. |
| N/S |
2015 |
Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science |
following climate change scientists in Arctic and Antarctica |
| S |
2015 |
Licence to Krill |
France: studying Antarctic krill |
| S |
2016 |
Continent 7: Antarctica |
National Geographic 6 episode mini series |
| N |
2016 |
Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things |
Canada; Documentary about a small group preparing for a first gay pride celebration in Nunavut
 |
| S |
2016 |
Mystery Beneath the Ice |
PBS Nova S43E3; what happened to the krill? |
| N |
2016 |
Passage to Mars |
NASA road trip to their Mars simulation station in the High Arctic. With Zachary Quinto and Buzz Aldrin. |
| N |
2016 |
The High Cost of Arctic Living |
Canadian; episode S2E6 of culinary travel series ‘Dead Set on Life.’ Chef discovers that the high cost of food in Nunavut affects Inuit traditions. |
| N |
2016 |
Death in the Arctic |
Canada; documentary, episode S14E10 of ‘Air Crash Investigation.’ Crash and rescue of a 737 in 2011 in a remote Inuit area. |
| N |
2016 |
Longyearbyen, a bipolar city |
France; documentary, the Norwegian city of Longyearbyen is used to extracting coal, but as the price falls many people are ready to talk about environmental issues |
| S |
2016 |
Sealers: One Last Hunt |
Norway; documentary, a motley crew makes one last seal hunting trip as the industry ends with an EU ban. |
| S |
2016 |
Antarctic Dream |
Argentina; mariners sail to Antarctica in custom sailboat |
| S |
2017 |
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown - Antarctica |
Episode S9E5; Bourdain visits Antarctica |
| S |
2017 |
Giants of the Antarctic Deep |
Japan; S1E4 of Deep Ocean, narrated by David Attenborough |
| S |
2017 |
L’empereur |
French; March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step |
| S |
2017 |
Antarctica, sur les traces de l'empereur |
French; episode of L'aventure humaine |
| N/S |
2017 |
Spy in the Wild |
Documentary. Episodes Snow Chick (S1E8) and The Poles (S2E4, 2020) |
| S |
2017 |
Lake Vostok: At the Mountains of Madness |
Drilling in Lake Vostok |
| N |
2017 |
Ice Cold Killer |
Documentary; Episode S9E3 of River Monsters. Looking for sea monsters near Greenland & Norway |
| S |
2018 |
Antártica por um Ano |
Brazilian Navy at research station in Antarctica |
| S |
2018 |
Projekt: Antarktis |
Germany; friends make a film about their Antarctic trip |
| S |
2018 |
The Push: Owning Your Reality Is Where the Journey Begins |
Documentary, first athlete with spinal cord injury to push himself 100 miles to the South Pole |
| S |
2018 |
The White Continent |
Climate Change in Antarctica |
| N |
2018 |
Into the Arctic: Awakening |
Canada; Third documentary about artist Cory Trépanier who paints the Canadian Arctic and finds its been affected by climate change. |
| N |
2018 |
Queen Without Land |
Norwegian; Documentary, wildlife filmmaker follows polar bear mother in Svalbard |
| N |
2018 |
Arktika Incognita |
Documentary; To northern Siberian islands, following in the footsteps of the Jeannette, which tried to reach the North Pole in 1879. |
| N |
2018 |
Norway's Great Sled Dog Race |
Italy; Documentary of Norway’s race above the Arctic Circle |
| S |
2018 |
Zayed's Antarctic Lights |
UAE; Abu Dhabi ambassadors and Jane Goodall go to Antarctica |
| N |
2018 |
Snow Bears |
Documentary, S37E6 of ‘Nature’. Polar bear mother and 2 cubs. |
| 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 |
| N |
2019 |
Fram |
Finnish; dance artists/filmmakers visit the Fram in Oslo and then travel to make a dance film in Svalbard about polar exploration |
| N |
2019 |
Jäinen taival (The Big Ice) |
Finnish; documentary about Finnish Special Forces skiing unsupported across Greenland ice sheet |
| S |
2019 |
Antarctica |
S1E1 of Seven Worlds On Planet |
| N |
2019 |
Into the Dark |
International team of scientists study light and CO2 at nighttime in Tromso, Norway |
| N/S |
2019 |
Frozen Worlds |
S1E2 of Our Planet |
| N |
2019 |
Through Greenland |
Denmark; TV mini-series, 5 episodes. Travel through Greenland with Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau |
| N/S |
2019 |
Ice on Fire |
Documentary about Climate Change |
| S |
2019 |
Penguins |
Disney Nature documentary; Adelie penguin seeks mate |
| N |
2020 |
Under the Pole |
France; Documentary, TV mini-series, 5 episodes (1-4 Arctic). Diving in Arctic Ocean, near Greenland, and through NW Passage |
| S |
2020 |
The Leadership |
AUS; Intl. group of 76 female scientists on a 3 week Antarctic voyage to become leaders |
| S |
2020 |
Reunification in the Ice: The Story of the Last GDR Antarctic Explorers |
German; 13 East German researchers at Antarctic base in 1989 return in 1991 to a fallen Berlin Wall |
| S |
2020 |
The Hidden Lake Under the Ice of Antarctica |
Short; drilling into Lake Vostok |
| S |
2020 |
South of Everything: A Journey to Antarctica |
Americans visit Antarctic peninsula |
| S |
2020 |
Dinosaurs of Antarctica |
|
| S |
2020 |
Polar Extremes |
S47E1 of NOVA |
| S |
2020 |
Exploring Antarctica's Active Volcano Mt. Erebus: Antarctic Extremes |
Episode 1 of PBS Terra |
| N |
2020 |
Expedition Arktis - Ein Jahr. Ein Schiff. Im Eis. |
Germany; S14E34 of ‘Erlebnis Erde’, large Arctic expedition on German icebreaker to Arctic to study climate change for a year while the ship drifted in the ice |
| S |
2021 |
Whales in a Changing Ocean |
Short; scientists studying humpback whales in Antarctica |
| S |
2021 |
Perpetual Planet: Heroes of the Oceans |
Sylvia Earle and others study the oceans, including Antarctica |
| S |
2021 |
Antarctica: The Frozen Time |
Germany/NZ; animals in Antarctica |
| N/S |
2021 |
Ice |
AUS; S1E6 of World's Greatest Natural Icons |
| N |
2021 |
Life of Ivanna |
Russia/Norway/Finland/Estonia; Documentary about mother of 5 in northern Siberia, where the reindeer are dying from climate change and a traditional life is increasingly impossible
|
| S |
2021 |
Dry Valleys |
Short; Chris McKay and other NASA scientists search for Martian meteorites in Antarctica |
| S |
2022 |
The Strait Guys |
Documentary. International group of engineers want to build a 100 km train tunnel under the Bering Strait connecting Alaska and Russia |
| N/S |
2022 |
The Arctic and Antarctica |
S2E3 episode of Traveling with Denella Ri'chard |
| S |
2022 |
The Endangered Generation |
AUS; climate change and global challenges across 4 continents, including Antarctica |
| S |
2022 |
Sounds of the South |
Dutch musician visits Falkland Islands and Antarctic peninsula |
| N |
2022 |
Polar Bear |
Disney Nature; follows new polar bear mother |
| S |
2022 |
Atlas Ocean Voyages to Antarctica |
S1E2 episode of Porthole Cruise and Travel Show |
| S |
2023 |
Antarctica Calling |
French, director Luc Jacqueti films the journey from Patagonia to Antarctica |
| N/S |
2023 |
Frozen Planet II |
BBC, Arctic Ocean (Ep 2), Frozen South (Ep 4), others includes non-polar regions |
| N |
2023 |
Heïdi's ice |
France; Documentary about glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre studying Arctic glaciers |
| N |
2023 |
Lift the Ice |
Singapore; Documentary TV series, 6 episodes, discoveries in thawing ice |
| N |
2023 |
Die Arktis - 66,5 Grad Nord |
Germany; Documentary TV mini-series, 3 episodes, changes in Arctic |
| N/S |
2024 |
Antarctic Voyage |
Biological research expedition to South Georgia Island |
| S |
TBD |
Ice Maiden |
AUS; Documentary of Australian Lisa Blair, first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. Trailer |