John Garrity, a Scottish structural engineer, tries to reconcile with his estranged wife and prepare for a party to watch a passing comet. However, when a series of comet fragments threaten Earth, John and his family must navigate chaos, looting, and a race against time to find safety. Along the way, they encounter kidnappings, military conflicts, and desperate attempts to reach a military base for evacuation. Despite the challenges, they refuse to give up and ultimately reunite and make it to a bunker in Greenland, where they join other survivors as Earth faces global destruction.
Walter Mitty is a negative assets manager at 'Life' magazine who daydreams of adventures to get away out of the tedium of his boring job. When he and a colleague are about to lose their jobs, Walter takes action by embarking on an adventure more extraordinary than anything he ever imagined. With the help of clues in the missing negatives of a famous photojournalist, Walter travels to Greenland, Iceland, and the Himalayas to find him and the missing photograph.
Join Nissebanden in their hilarious adventure to Greenland, where they must save Christmas from a mischievous villain.
Alex Honnold leads an expedition to Greenland to climb a huge 4,000 foot sea cliff and investigate the impacts climate change on the region.
Join Michael Palin on his epic journey from the North Pole to the South Pole, exploring diverse cultures, breathtaking landscapes, and encountering unique experiences.
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind on an expedition in ice-covered Greenland. Battling hunger, fatigue, and a polar bear attack, they finally reach their ship only to find it crushed and the camp abandoned.
Sgt. Bilko is a master con artist who runs various schemes on an Army base to fund his luxurious lifestyle. When the new base commander threatens to shut down Bilko's operation, he must come up with a plan to outsmart him and save his way of life. Along the way, Bilko enters a boxing tournament to prove himself and win back the respect of his fellow soldiers.
Seabert is an animated television series from 1985. It was created by BZZ films in Paris and originally aired in French before being translated into different languages around the world. In the United States, the show aired on HBO starting in 1987. There were 26 episodes (x 2 segments). The author is Marc Tortarolo for the theme, Philippe Marin for the design and Jacques Morel and Eric Turlot for the stories.
Smilla, a Greenlander living in Copenhagen, investigates the mysterious death of a 6-year-old Inuit boy who fell from the rooftop. As she digs deeper, she unravels a dangerous conspiracy involving a sunken ship, a comet, and a powerful oil corporation. With her knowledge of snow and ice, Smilla uncovers the truth and faces danger at every turn.
Re-join the hardy American prospectors as they go for gold as the massive ice sheet melts on Greenland, revealing immense mineral wealth in the virgin rock.
In the early 1900s, a group of men and women embark on a perilous polar expedition to the North Pole. They face the harshness of the Arctic, struggle for survival, and discover the true power of love and friendship.
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he'd already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook's corner--as is this TV movie.
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet is a documentary that explores the impact of human activities on Earth's systems and the urgent need for global action to address climate change and environmental degradation.
Dark forces from the deep rise to the surface, terrorizing all aboard from Titanic III and threatens to repeat one of history's greatest disasters.
During the Cold War, a US destroyer encounters a Soviet submarine, leading to a series of intense confrontations and psychological strain among the crew. The captain's paranoia and professional failures threaten to escalate the situation into nuclear warfare.
Thin Ice is a drama and thriller TV show that revolves around a female police detective who gets involved in a high-stakes investigation regarding a political conspiracy connected to climate change. The plot takes place in the Arctic region, with themes of oil, political conflict, and global warming. As the detective delves deeper into the case, she uncovers shocking truths and faces personal challenges.
The beauty of the Arctic is breathtaking. For as long as we can remember, the Arctic has been associated with inhospitable cold. But the climate is changing, and with it the northern polar region, which begins beyond latitude 66.5 degrees north. Climate change is now happening four times faster north of the Arctic Circle than on the rest of the planet, making the future outlook dire. At the moment it is still possible for polar bears to raise their cubs, but hunting is becoming increasingly difficult on the drastically shrinking pack ice. The disappearance of the ice also affects the marine fauna. The wintry ice bridge between Canada and Greenland is threatened with collapse. The unstoppable melting of the permafrost, which has held the tundra together for thousands of years, is worrying. But the Arctic is still one of the wildest and loveliest regions on earth. A documentary visit to the Arctic - as long as it still exist.
Beautifully filmed by New Zealand nature photographer Richard Sidey over the past decade around the polar regions, Speechless: The Polar Realm is a visual meditation of light, life, loss and wonder at the ends of the globe. This is the second film in Sidey’s non-verbal trilogy which is comprised of: - Landscapes at the World’s Ends (2010) - Speechless: The Polar Realm (2015) - Elementa (2020)
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power and silos to house missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.