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On Christmas Eve, a young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express, while learning about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas.

Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.

Join a voyage through aquatic realms where humans have rarely dared to go. Waddle with playful penguins, dart with lightning speed through schools of sharks, ride over stormy waves with massive whales and view rare alien-like creatures.

A portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

A NASA Arctic expedition designed to be the first Martian road trip on Earth becomes an epic two-year odyssey of human adventure and survival.

An American meteorologist spots an aircraft wreckage while flying over the Arctic. When he spots a badly injured Soviet airman, he parachutes down with first aid supplies, but an encroaching storm severely limits their chance of rescue.

Honor Project Documentary is a film about fatherhood that explores personal and parenting experiences every father can relate to.

"Albedo" is a measure of reflectivity used by astronomers. When snow and ice vanish, Earth changes colour. Its surface becomes less reflective, more of the sun's energy gets absorbed, and temperatures rise. This is what happens when land and sea lose albedo. Five hundred nautical miles from the North Pole, a research team sets out to measure the world's largest and oldest sea ice floes. Steve is an expedition leader who has led projects in the High Arctic for 40 years. Chris is a polar oceanographer who studies ice floes from a Harvard lab. They know the data, the models, the science. None of that has prepared them for the truth on the ground. The floes are crumbling and collapsing, the old ice is gone. Caught in a frozen maelstrom, something has to give.

The film is based on the true story of Captain Marinesku and set in 1944 during WWII at the Russian Navy Base. Young and beautiful Tanka is in love with Aleksandr Marinin, the brave Captain of the Russian submarine. He is under the KGB surveillance, and his life is at risk. He takes his boat to fight the Nazi fleet, and he cannot come back home without a victory.

The story behind the video in the documentary 'Deep Blue'.

A thin thread of fiction, linking inserts of non-original documentary footage of Portuguese cod-fishers off the rich coasts of Newfoundland and Groenland. Heroic fights against raging seas and winds, deep fog and cold, plus a fire aboard. A man's world, where sometimes a woman in male dress does her share of work like a man...

Pravda leytenanta Klimova (aka...Lieutenant Klimov's Truth) is about a Navy Lieutenant Klimov (Rostotsky) who is in charge of the nuclear missiles on his submarine. He is also married to the most beautiful lady (Kondulainen) and his career looks good, considering he was a boy from Leningrad. But after returning home from a training trip he discovers about his wife infidelity with another Navy officer. Angry Lieutenant Klimov hits the cheating guy smack in the face with his heavy fist in front of public. Then comes the severe punishment of demoting and moving Klimov to the rough service at the Polar Ocean. This becomes a great challenge in Klimov's life. But with the help of an experienced and caring senior officer, Klimov proves that he is an outstanding professional and a reliable friend that is very essential on the boat.

A living legacy of evolution is alive and well in arctic America. For generations, Alaska's eastern Beaufort Sea has sustained the health of its hunters: polar bears and Inupiat Eskimos. Truly home only in the Arctic, both are adapted to thrive in the harshest environment on the planet. With respectful conservation of the Arctic Ocean, the timeless balance between land, sea, human, and animal may endure indefinitely.

He was one of the greatest Polar explorers. He was also a world-class photographer. For the first time, the photos and films of South Australian, Sir George Hubert Wilkins are being brought together in this new documentary by Peter Maddern. From under the North Pole ice and deep among the front lines of the Western Front in the Great War, from sailing high above the earth in the Graf Zeppelin to riding the roiling seas on Shackleton's Quest, Wilkins kept his cameras going. His photographic record of the 30 years from 1910 to the Second World War is like no other. If you haven't heard of this great man, this is a time to sit back and be amazed at what he achieved, at what he witnessed and at how he isn't better known in his home town. Part of the 'Bringing Wilkins Home' initiative.

A team of divers assemble a big bubble in the Arctic Ocean.

A NFB Canada Vignettes entry about the depths of the Arctic Ocean.

This three-episode mini-series focuses on the impacts of climate change on three distinct polar regions - Antarctica, the Northwest Passage in the Arctic, and Iceland - and examines how these changes will impact the rest of the world. EPISODE 1.1: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning examines the issues of penguin suicide, collapsing glaciers, and declining populations of marine life. EPISODE 1.2: The Polar Explorer joins a team of scientists from ArcticNet as we cross the fabled Northwest Passage and encounter the largest piece of free-floating ice in polar history, the Petermann Ice Island. EPISODE 1.3: The Changing Face of Iceland investigates geological changes to this island nation including the recent volcanic eruptions of Mount Fagradalsfjall in March, 2021.

When Norwegian officers boarded a Russian trawler, the last thing they expected was to be abducted. But for 5 days, they were held prisoner while the navy chased the ship. "We closed all the hatches and prepared for war", states Valery Jarantsev, captain of the Russian trawler, Elektron. When two Norwegian officials caught his ship illegally fishing, he defied their orders to return to port. Instead, he abducted the Norwegian officials and made a mad dash for Russia. "He was quite determined. He didn't show any signs of surrendering", recalls abducted officer Henning Thune. Another Russian trawler came to Elektron's aid, preventing it being intercepted by the coast guard and the ship entered Russian waters. But Jarantsev is now being prosecuted by his own government, after they reached a deal with Norway. He faces up to seven years in prison. TV2

A moving shape appears on the ice: it is a bear and her two cubs. Disturbed in their rest, the mother, worried, questions the surroundings, while the two cubs huddle against her fearfully. A bullet hits the mother whom the hunter kills to have the cubs. They, lassoed, struggle frantically with all their six-month-old strength. We drag the bear to the whaling boat and our two cubs miserably follow their mother's body. Here they are embarked, far from the icy immensities, for the slavery of fairground performances or the pits of public gardens.

The polar caps have the most extreme seasonal contrasts, growing and melting vast ice masses, so wildlife adapts by annual migrations. The majority of Antartica is a vast barren permafrost. Only 3% of the coast and peninsular peaks are where life migrates to in the spring, for a short fertile summer, attracted by rich supplies of krill and fish. Only the Emperor penguin males breed 4 months in winter 100 miles inland. The Arctic has a more complete fauna which migrates back North from the continent. Here, the Polar bear is threatened because global warming defrosts its seal hunt platform ice too fast.

It's the largest Arctic expedition of all time. In September 2019 the German icebreaker "Polarstern" is on its way to the North Pole. The best scientists of their generation are on board. Their job are to collect data about the ocean, ice, atmosphere and life. The mission is to understand climate change, because the changes in the Arctic have an impact far beyond the region. The documentary provides spectacular close-ups of the MOSAiC expedition under the direction of the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and shows the world of the Arctic during the polar night, from which hardly any data and images existed until now. A scientific, logistical and also human adventure of a community of researchers and crew members who let themselves be frozen with the ship for a year in the ice desert near the North Pole in order to use the natural drift of the ice, captured for the audience in impressive images.

Witness exclusive, never-before-seen footage of a lemon shark birth, right in the middle of hurricane alley in Coasts.