Movies Like Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013)

Antarctica: A Year on Ice is a 2013 adventure, documentary, drama film from Anthony Powell with a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with TimeScapes and Encounters at the End of the World.

Adventure Documentary Drama

TimeScapes

2012

Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the American South West.

7.4

MagicScore

Encounters at the End of the World

2007

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. Herzog's voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about "fluffy penguins", but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.

7.4

MagicScore

Scott of the Antarctic

1948

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him

7.2

MagicScore

Into the Wild

2007

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

7.8

MagicScore

The Doors

1991

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

7.1

MagicScore

Wild

2014

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

7.0

MagicScore

The Better Angels

2014

At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the developing frontier shaped one of our nation’s greatest heroes: Abraham Lincoln. Abe is a thoughtful and quiet boy who spends his days at the side of his beloved mother while learning to work the land from his stern father. When illness takes his mother, Abe's new guardian angel comes in the form of his new stepmother, who sees the potential in the boy and pushes for his further education.

6.1

MagicScore

Adventure Time

2007

Pen and Jake have to rescue Princess Bubblegum from the antagonistic Ice King.

8.2

MagicScore

Wild America

1997

Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, bears and moose.

6.1

MagicScore

#10

Home

2009

In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangered his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic: humanity has barely ten years left to reverse the trend, become aware of its excessive exploitation of the Earth's riches, and change its consumption pattern.

7.8

MagicScore

#11

Father and Daughter

2001

A father says goodbye to his young daughter. In time the daughter grows old, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father.

7.5

MagicScore

#12

Antarctica

1983

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

7.2

MagicScore

#13

Eight Below

2006

In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission.

7.0

MagicScore

#14

March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step

2017

A young penguin, driven by his instinct, embarks on his first major trip to an unknown destination.

6.9

MagicScore

#15

The Great White Silence

1924

Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica with Captain Scott’s ill-fated South Pole expedition and filmed the stunning images that make up this extraordinary documentary. (Originally released in 1912 as With Captain Scott in the Antarctic, the material was re-edited and re-issued by Ponting in 1924 as The Great White Silence.)

7.8

MagicScore

#16

Earth

2007

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet – polar bears, elephants and humpback whales.

7.6

MagicScore

#17

Lovers of the Arctic Circle

1998

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.

7.3

MagicScore

#18

Penguins

2019

The story of Steve, an Adélie penguin, on a quest to find a life partner and start a family. When Steve meets with Wuzzo the emperor penguin they become friends. But nothing comes easy in the icy Antarctic.

7.1

MagicScore

#19

March of the Penguins

2005

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!

7.1

MagicScore

#20

The Endurance

2000

Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the crew of his vessel 'The Endurance', which was trapped in the ice floes and frigid open ocean of the Antarctic in 1914. Shackleton decided, with many of his crew injured and weak from exposure and starvation, to take a team of his fittest men and attempt to find help. Setting out in appalling conditions with hopelessly inadequate equipment, they endured all weather and terrain and finally reached safety. Persuading a local team of his confidence that the abandoned team would still be alive, he set out again to find them. After almost 2 years trapped on the ice, all members of the crew were finally rescued.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Antarctica: A Year on Ice?

The top films similar to Antarctica: A Year on Ice by MovieMagicScore are TimeScapes (7.4), Encounters at the End of the World (7.4), Scott of the Antarctic (7.2). Each shares adventure/documentary/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Antarctica: A Year on Ice worth watching?

Antarctica: A Year on Ice holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10 from 78 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Antarctica: A Year on Ice?

Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013) is a adventure, documentary, drama film directed by Anthony Powell, starring Genevieve Bachman, William Brotman, Michael Christiansen.

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