Videos
Crash of Byrd’s Fokker in Antarctica 1929
Richard Byrd took three airplanes on his first Antarctic Expedition 1928-29. In March, 1929, he sent three men in the Fokker to the Rockefeller Mountains for geologic studies. A blizzard roared in, hurled the plane in the air, and slammed it down on the ice completely...
NASA Goddard time lapse of Arctic Ice Minimum 2018
2018 Arctic Sea Ice Ties for Sixth Lowest Minimum Extent on NASA Record.
National Geographic: They Turn Ice Into Ice Cubes | Continent 7: Antarctica
Sail the frozen waters of Antarctica on the U.S. Coast Guard Polar Star. This teams mission, break up ice sheets for Antarctica’s supply ships.
Drilling Ice Cores in Greenland
A group of scientists is drilling through Arctic ice to find out what’s happening in the middle of the ice field, and how that could affect all of us.
Nat Geo Megastructures: Building the New Amundsen Scott South Pole Station
Ousland & Ulrich Encounter with Polar Bears
Polar explorers Borge Ousland and Thomas Ulrich encounter a curious polar bear mother with her two cubs during their “In the Footsteps of Nansen” expedition. .
Silent Snow – The Movie trailer
Trailer for a feature length film. Expected release: spring 2011. Film by Jan van den Berg and Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann. An Inuit search for solutions to the chemical poisoning of the world. View larger version at the Silent Snow trailer web site. More information...
The Will Steger Foundation Videos
The Will Steger Foundation seeks to inspire and be a catalyst for international environmental leadership to stop global warming through exploration, education and action.The featured movie is on Ellesmere Island, rife with wildlife; from white wolves, to muskox, to...
Sheila Watt – Cloutier’s UN COP-17 Lecture
Archived live webcast: “Not the Time to COP Out” – Sheila Watt-Cloutier‘s lecture on climate change to UN COP‐17. This event was presented by Mount Allison University’s Arctic Environmental Change class, and is part of IsumaTV’s project: Digital Indigenous Democracy...
Frozen in Time – Mawson’s Huts, Antarctica
A short preview version of Frozen in Time – the first fulldome movie shot in Antarctica. It documents the site of Mawson’s Huts, Cape Denison – where the historic remains of the buildings erected by the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition exist to this day....
Imitiqutailq: Path of the Arctic Tern
The film chronicles a life-altering journey from one end of the Earth to the other, by two Inuit teens (Terry Noah and Jason Qaapiq) from Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada’s northernmost Arctic community, to the bottom of the world, Antarctica. The journey was the dream of...
People of a Feather – Trailer
Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. Connecting past present and future is a unique cultural relationship with the eider duck. For...
North
Svalbard is an archipelago high within the Arctic Circle. In 1920, a treaty known as the Svalbard Act was signed by several nations recognising Norwegian sovereignty over the islands, and declaring the whole region a demilitarized zone. This is a short film about how...
No Horizon Anymore
From summer to winter and back again, No Horizon Anymore takes you on a journey few have experienced. Fewer than 2,000 people have spent the austral winter at the South Pole Station. The film follows members of the 2009 winterover crew as they share their...
Ends of Earth
Images from the Arctic and Antarctic by Anne Doubilet with original music by Garth Stevenson. Presented at American Polar Society 80th Anniversary Symposium held at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA, Nov. 3-6, 2015.