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English
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Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Danish
Description
On a three-masted schooner packed with artists, scientists and ambitions worthy of Noah or Columbus, a crew sets sail for the end of the world: the rapidly melting massifs of Northeast Greenland. It is an epic journey, with the brave explorers on board encountering polar bear nightmares, Stone Age playgrounds and entirely new species. But in their meetings with these new and unknown parts of the world, the crew is also confronted with the existential...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Renowned paleontologist Kirk Johnson embarks on an epic adventure through time at the polar extremes of the planet. Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places - beech trees in Antarctica, redwoods and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic - NOVA uncovers the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-thick ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sought by explorers for centuries and hailed as the one of the most beautiful waterways in the world, The Northwest Passage tells a dramatic story of courage, discovery and adventure. From the breath-taking landscapes of the Arctic to the unforgettable exporters that risked everything to accomplish the un-thinkable, this 6-Part documentary highlights the missions and mysteries of the world s greatest waterway. Through in-depth interviews with experts...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Language
English
Description
In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. He planned to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, on water over 8000 feet deep, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance. Non-Aboriginal histories of Australia generally regard Captain Cook as the person who discovered Australia, although historical records show that he was not the first European to step onto Australian shores. Contemporary Aboriginal accounts of Captain Cook that survive bear little relationship to this history upheld by non-Aboriginal...
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Learn events and historical figures of the westward expansion. Find out how the Louisiana Purchase and the Gold Rush encouraged exploration and settlement of the U.S. frontier, and the relationship between settlers and the Native American population. Features reenactments, journal entries, and historic imagery.
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Learn about daily life in the pioneer communities like trading posts and sodhouses that sprang up in the western territories of the United States in the 1800s. Also see how geography affected the economy and settlement patterns. Features reenactments, journal entries, and historic imagery.
14) Iceman
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about man's past. Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state. When the Iceman becomes part of their lives, the results are both moving and emotionally shattering.
15) Passage to Mars
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a 2000-mile expedition across the Arctic sea-ice of the Northwest Passage by six NASA astronauts in preparation for the exploration of the planet Mars.
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them.
Series
Rediscover the corps volume Season 1
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Modern-day adventurers, along with a film crew led by Clay Jenkinson, set out to REDISCOVER THE CORPS and recount the original Corps of Discovery, assigned to Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by President Thomas Jefferson.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While infamous for their fearsome conquests, the Vikings were also expert seafarers, skilled traders, and courageous explorers who traveled far and wide from Scandinavia to Europe and into Asia. The 1960s discovery of the only Viking site in North America, on the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, proved that the Norse had actually made it to America, as suggested in the Vinland sagas. But how far did they get? Using satellite technology, excavation,...
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