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.
Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those wh...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...
Robert Llewellyn examines the enduring appeal of submarine movies, finding a beached Cold War Russia...

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Dark fears over the North Pole. Long sheltered from large-scale industrial exploitation, the Arctic ...
"Adrift" is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photograp...

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

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...


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Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of ...

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Personal experiences of Northwest Ohio residents during the January 1978 blizzard that disrupted dai...

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

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September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

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

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