A vast white wilderness that stretches across the south of our planet; a giant natural laboratory that has long occupied the human psyche. Antarctica is a continent of remote natural wonder. For brief moments each year this hauntingly beautiful landscape opens up, beckoning scientists and explorers from around the world to investigate its frozen secrets. 'Journey into the White Desert' takes us on a mesmerizing visual adventure into this mysterious continent, introducing us to a team of South African scientists, researchers and explorers who have braved the inhospitable continent in the quest to learn its secrets. The film explores South Africa's role in the greatest wilderness on earth and showcases some of the groundbreaking research that could make the difference to our survival on this planet.

Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of ...

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their yo...

A witty and tenacious team of filmmakers brave the Antarctic to film Disneynature's "Penguins."


Caves of Glass is a documentary from director Sid Perou's Realm of Darkness series, focusing on the ...

Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated ...

Yûichirô Miura, the man who skied down Everest, journeys to an 8,000 foot mountain in the midst of a...

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there,...

In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soun...

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, aw...

This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, dri...

Gombessa Expedition 3 Protected by an international treaty Antarctica has been spared the effects o...

The 2013 film from Alastair Lee is an epic to end all mountain epics se t in the stunning mountains ...
Andreas Kieling, a famous German documentary film maker, explores the coldest places in the world. H...

An up-to-date look at the climate change research currently being done by the scientists stationed i...

Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after...

Amidst the pristine but freezing waters surrounding the white continent, a unique insight into the m...

For six weeks we explored the Antarctic Peninsula by sea kayak, sailboat, foot and small plane, obse...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...