A photographic journey compiled from journals, archival footage and photographs of an Australian military photographer, Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1931 as he went from New York to the North Pole in an old WWI submarine to explore the Arctic Ocean. Included on dvd are a brief history of the submarine and photographic gallery of Wilkins.

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...

Dark fears over the North Pole. Long sheltered from large-scale industrial exploitation, the Arctic ...

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to me...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...
Personal experiences of Northwest Ohio residents during the January 1978 blizzard that disrupted dai...


12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
Robert Llewellyn examines the enduring appeal of submarine movies, finding a beached Cold War Russia...
Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those wh...

In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
"Adrift" is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photograp...

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