Should you watch Antarctica: A Year on Ice?
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Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Documentary · 2013
Filling the giant screen with stunning time-lapse vistas of Antarctica, and detailing year-round life at McMurdo and Scott Base, Anthony Powell’s documentary is a potent hymn to the icy continent and the heavens above.
The sides of Antarctica: A Year on Ice
- Time-lapse skies over Antarctica
- A year at McMurdo and Scott Base
- People living through months of darkness
Antarctica: A Year on Ice is good for you if…
- you want to see Antarctica through a whole year.
- you like time-lapse auroras and ice that fills the screen.
- you like a calm, patient film with long views.
Antarctica: A Year on Ice is bad for you if…
- you want the heroic age of Scott and Shackleton. This is life at today's bases.
- you want danger and suspense on the ice.
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