Commandant Charcot - High-Tech Cruise Through the Ice

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

"Adrift" is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photography with stop-motion animation of the landscape....

The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer who laid the foundations of modern oceanography.

Dark fears over the North Pole. Long sheltered from large-scale industrial exploitation, the Arctic is now at risk of becoming the last El Dorado for...

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to meet the ancient Sami people and the animals they...

Global warming in context. What the climate of the past tells us about the climate of the future.

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...

Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.

In a seasonal special, Gordon Buchanan meets the animals who live in nature's winter wonderlands. He reveals their survival secrets, from the polar...

A workout on the sun deck, a conga line in the dining hall, a photo shoot with the captain, or a beauty contest for all ages: fun around-the-clock is...