Antarctica is the story of John and his fellow explorers who get stuck on Antarctica and attempt to save themselves. Their journey is both physical and a spiritual one. John escapes his past but when fate catches up with him, he is forced to confront himself.
A two and half month journey from Buenos Aires (Argentina) to Medellin (Colombia), through some of the most amazing places in South America, immersed in the Backpacker's culture.
Como parte de un proyecto de investigación, recientemente tuve la suerte de embarcarme en un semestre en el extranjero. Durante este tiempo, tuve el placer de conocer y coincidir con algunas personas verdaderamente notables, a quienes tuve la suerte de escuchar sus propias historias sobre sus luchas. Si bien nuestras culturas diferían, todos nos relacionamos en un sentimiento universal que compartimos. Hoy, estamos emocionados de usar esas historias para dar vida a este cortometraje, con mucho más por venir en un futuro cercano.
Five young fun loving travelers are documenting their travels from New York to Malaysia on the journey of a lifetime exploring many of the wonderful sights and sounds of Malaysia. The purpose of the trip is to discover their friends familial roots from the Iban tribe in Borneo and have the adventure of a lifetime. Only to discover the tribe has crossed the border into the unfamiliar territory of Indonesian tribes.
On a journey through the interior of the earth, we learn about the life and dreams of a swiss explorer who searches for caves and underground rivers in a sector marked by violence and armed conflict in Colombia. This underground labyrinth is a metaphor about a dark past, buried deep within the soul, where old war wounds heal with the infinite passage of time.
An aspiring explorer at heaven's doors, prays for someone to help and save him from certain death, and someone answer.
In 1917 Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to Northeastern Siberia carrying a cinematograph and 13,000 feet of film with him. The journey produced a unique documentary film and a travelogue. A hundred years later director Kira Jääskeläinen returns to the Bering Strait in Pälsi's footsteps. Combining old and new film footage, Pälsi's notes and the stories of the local indigenous peoples, the film highlights the story of the Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos from bygone days till today.
In 1914, the world's first trans-Antarctic expedition came to a cold stop. Trapped in ice just 60 miles from their destination, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew found themselves in a dire situation that would play out as a two-year battle against starvation, sub-zero conditions, and the threat of being swallowed by the unforgiving Southern Ocean. Witness this incredible story of courage and survival, fueled by ship captain Frank Worsley's exceptional navigational skills, the crew's resiliency, and Shackleton's cool-headed leadership.
A girl searching a forbidding jungle for her missing father stumbles upon a savage jungle girl.
Una reportera solicita la ayuda de un explorador africano para intentar localizar a un hombre del mundo del espectáculo que desapareció hace algún tiempo.
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
Eve is a jungle girl brought up by apes. She is captured with a number of apes by a mad scientist, conducting mind control experiments on them. Eventually she is liberated by a young explorer.
This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.
"When I Grow Up" follows the imagination of a young boy's dreams for his future.
The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is considered one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, scientist and adventurer Tim Jarvis is retracing the gruelling experience, with the same meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically-and mentally-as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death.
Six polar explorers arrives to a remote island in Arctic for a year-long scientific expedition. When their ship departs, they unpack only to find a young stowaway, who romanticized Arctic heroes, and tried to join them on multiple occasions finally succeeding. That's how six became seven. Life of polar explorers is tough, and full of danger. During one year they are largely isolated from the mainland, and should survive using their resourcefulness, smarts, knowledge, and existing supplies with occasional unreliable radio communications. The Seven are resilient, cheerful, they forged a true friendship. Now they are ready to face the unforgiving Arctic.
La vida no es fácil en la tundra ártica. Pero cuando los animales de la zona comienzan súbitamente a desaparecer, dejando a los depredadores sin nada que cazar y a los humanos de la comunidad del joven Markussi muriendo de hambre, la cosa ya no puede ir a peor, así que este decide que han de tomarse medidas drásticas. Desafiando al shaman del clan, Kiliq, Markussi establece una expedición en compañía de sus amigos Putulik y Apik (y su adorable lemming Kimi) para buscar la ciudad legendaria de Sarila, de la que se promete una enorme riqueza en pescados y frutas. Perseguidos por el enfadado shaman y enfrentándose a numerosos peligros, el grupo de aventureros debe restablecer el orden natural del medio ambiente para poder salvar a su pueblo.
Película inspirada en la vida de Vasco Núñez de Balboa
A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.
Un grupo de espeleólogos, tras pasar el día al exterior preparándose, se adentran en unas minas abandonadas, en donde a varios serios incidentes, se unirá la presencia de un ser extraño de procedencia indeterminada que irá acechando a los excursionistas uno a uno.