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1. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.
Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Votes: 215,262 | Gross: $152.27M
2. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
PG | 96 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. Bush
Votes: 85,295 | Gross: $23.81M
3. Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West, The Woolly Monkey
Votes: 7,176
4. Wyvern (2009 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
They Find a Live Wyvern in small town Alaska.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Nick Chinlund, Erin Karpluk, Barry Corbin, Elaine Miles
Votes: 2,370
5. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
G | 99 min | Documentary
Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov, Doug MacAyeal
Votes: 19,293 | Gross: $0.94M
6. The Atomic Submarine (1959)
Not Rated | 72 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Ships mysteriously disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a specially-equipped submarine is sent to investigate.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,850
7. The Last Dinosaur (1977)
Not Rated | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A wealthy big game hunter and his group become trapped in prehistoric times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.
Directors: Alexander Grasshoff, Tsugunobu Kotani | Stars: Richard Boone, Joan Van Ark, Steven Keats, Luther Rackley
Votes: 919
8. Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (2021 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 73 min | Documentary
David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.
Director: Jonathan Clay | Stars: David Attenborough, Elena Bennett, Jason Box, Terry Hughes
Votes: 3,291
9. Ice on Fire (2019)
TV-PG | 88 min | Documentary
Can we reverse climate change? Ice on Fire explores the many ways we reduce carbon inputs to the atmosphere and, more important, how to "draw" carbon down, bringing CO2 out of the ... See full summary »
Director: Leila Conners | Stars: Raymond Baltar, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ottmar Edenhofer, Linwood Gill
Votes: 1,685
10. Chasing Ice (2012)
PG-13 | 75 min | Documentary, Biography
Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.
Director: Jeff Orlowski-Yang | Stars: James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Louie Psihoyos, Kitty Boone
Votes: 8,872 | Gross: $1.33M
11. A Polar Year (2018)
94 min | Adventure, Drama
A teacher in Denmark takes a job in rural Greenland where he struggles to fit in with the locals.
Director: Samuel Collardey | Stars: Anders Hvidegaard, Asser Boassen, Thomasine Jonathansen, Gert Jonathansen
Votes: 410
12. Thin Ice VR (2021)
20 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Thin Ice VR is a 20-minute historical re-creation documentary VR experience presented by Tim Jarvis AM.
Director: James Calvert | Stars: Tim Jarvis, Craig Behenna, Jeff Lang, Mark Saturno
13. The Antarctica Challenge (2009)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
An up-to-date look at the climate change research currently being done by the scientists stationed in Antarctica.
Director: Mark Terry | Stars: Mark Terry, David Ainley, Robert Mulvaney, Alexandra Shackleton
Votes: 145
14. Antarctica 1948 (1949)
24 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
This black-and-white film was made as a record of operations of the Australian National Research Expedition to Antarctica, from November 1947 to April 1948. It follows the journeys of two ... See full summary »
Stars: Phillip Garth Law, Fritz Loewe, Stuart Campbell, Alan Campbell-Drury
16. Shackleton and Scott: Rivals for the Pole (2001 Video)
53 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Shackleton and Scott were men with a common goal: the South Pole. However, divisions between them grew as jealousy and intrigue intensified their rivalry. The consequence of their polar ... See full summary »
Directors: John Murray, Donnacha O'Briain | Stars: Caroline Alexander, Ranulph Fiennes, David Hempleman-Adams, Diana Preston
17. Escape from Antarctica: On the Trail of Shackleton (1999 Video)
54 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
A team of Irish adventurers attempts to follow in the footsteps of Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton, who, in 1914, tried to cross the polar continent.
Directors: Donnacha O'Briain, Mick O'Rourke | Stars: John Murray, Donagh Deeney, Mike Barry, Paddy Barry
19. Mawson Base: Face to Face (1984 Video)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Directors: Rob McCubbin, Ian Toohill | Stars: Phillip Garth Law, Douglas Mawson
20. Sir Hubert Wilkins (1938)
1 min | Short, Biography, News
Sir Hubert Wilkins gives his views and hopes about his forthcoming submarine expedition to the North Pole.
21. Phoenix Mars Mission: Onto the Ice (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary
A behind-the-scenes look at the Phoenix Mars Mission to land a space probe on the north polar plains of the Red Planet, to investigate the chemistry of the Martian soil and to search for conditions conducive to life.
Director: Tom Kleespie | Stars: Peter Thomas, Ray Arvidson, Guy Beutelschies, William Boynton
22. Under the Pole (1959)
1 min | Short, News
Nearing the ice-packs of the Arctic, the American nuclear-powered Submarine "Skate" submerged. A 12-day, 3,000-mile trip under the Polar regions lay ahead. The voyage, under Commander James... See full summary »
Star: James Calvert
23. Sir Hubert Wilkins in Canada (1937)
1 min | Short, News
Sir Hubert Wilkins getting out of airliner. Close ups and speech. He is about to set out on search for lost Soviet Polar airmen.
Star: Hubert Wilkins
24. Aerial Antarctic Discoveries (1930)
1 min | Short, Adventure, News
Stars: Hubert Wilkins, Carl Ben Eielson
26. Expedition South (1961)
25 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Stars: Ron Haddrick, Douglas Mawson
28. Global Warming in Action (2013)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Music
Adam Kelly, videographer and producer of The Wonders of Alaska, presents a musical story of Global Warming In Action. The glacial calving events depicted in this powerful story happen to ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Kelly
29. Sir Hubert Wilkins: Polar Explorer and Aviator (2015)
37 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
The true and extraordinary life of Hubert Wilkins. He was compared to Lawrence of Arabia by Australian General John Monash who said he was "the bravest man I have ever seen".
Stars: Brian Hernan, Hubert Wilkins
30. Mawson in the Mirror (2014 Video)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Stars: Michael Brooks, Karin Barovich, Alan Collins, Douglas Mawson
31. Mawson: Science and Survival (2012 TV Special)
53 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
'Mawson: Science and Survival' is the epic and relatively untold story of one of the Antarctic's most incredible stories of survival - the remarkable ill-fated trek of Douglas Mawson in ... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Thompson, Geoff Moxham, Douglas Mawson, Quentin Bryce
32. 12 Flags South (1963 TV Special)
53 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
A documentary about Antarctica.
Director: Lionel Hudson | Stars: James Condon, Richard E. Byrd, Douglas Mawson, Ernest Shackleton
34. Southward on the Quest (1922)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition in 1921.
Star: Ernest Shackleton
35. Surviving Extremes (2006 TV Special)
52 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Stars: Bill Garner, Andrew S.W. Thomas, Douglas Mawson
36. Sir Hubert Wilkins Describes His Recent Antarctic Expedition (1930)
3 min | Short, Adventure, News
The distinguished explorer tells of recent expedition.
Star: Hubert Wilkins
37. The Last Husky (1993 Video)
54 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Chris Hilton | Stars: Guy Blackmore, Phillip Hinton
38. The Official Film of the Mawson Antarctic Expedition (1949)
68 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Frank Hurley | Stars: Douglas Mawson, Xavier Guillaume Mertz, Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis
39. In the Hunt (1993 Video Game)
Action, Sci-Fi
In the Hunt is a scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Irem.
Votes: 24
40.
Centurions (1986)
Episode:
Terror on Ice
(1986)
TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family
Jake discovers a giant T-Rex by accident. Dr. Terror succeeds in capturing the dinosaur and prepares him to a cyborg transformation in Dominion. The T-Rex breaks free and takes Amber with it. Dr. Terror asks the Centurions for help.
Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg
Votes: 15
41.
Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode:
River of Death
(2008)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure
Paleontologists look to modern day mass deaths to help determine what killed the herd of pachyrhinosaurus found in a fossil field in Alberta Canada.
Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, George Blasing, Lawrence Witmer, Peter L. Larson
Votes: 19
42.
The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
The Entertainment Industry Is Collapsing, Thank God
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Hollywood actors join writers on strike, raising concerns about the collapse of the entertainment industry. The Pentagon explains its stance on abortions for female military members. A Johnny the Walrus parade float stirs chaos in Alaska.
Star: Matt Walsh
44.
A Cow, a Cat and the Ocean (2006)
Episode:
Hôtel du Nord
(2006)
11 min | Animation, Family
On a hot day, the Cow and the Cat stumble upon an ice-hotel atop a silent iceberg, just in time before it melts. Josef, the penguin-hotelier gives them a quick tour; however, what will become of him when the Hotel of the North disappears?
Director: Prakash Topsy | Stars: Laura Préjean, Donald Reignoux
45.
The New Frontier (2015–2018)
Episode:
Next Stop Mars
(2015)
24 min | Documentary
Mars appears to be the only planet likely to host human civilization in the future. It's relatively benign environment makes it a favorite target for exploration by increasingly complex probes and plans for manned missions.
46.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Warren's Apology Tour, Bezos Exposing Pecker, Healthcare, Green New Deal
(2019 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams