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- CreatorBaltasar KormákurStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonIlmur KristjánsdóttirBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonIn a remote town in Iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town.
- CreatorSimon DonaldStarsRichard DormerBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonSienna GuilloryPerched on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now.
- StarsJack O'ConnellColin FarrellSam SpruellA disgraced former military doctor embarks as a surgeon aboard a whaler bound for the Arctic, where his quest for redemption becomes a fight for survival.
- CreatorDavid PastorÀlex PastorDavid TroncosoStarsJohn LynchKatharine O'DonnellyTomohisa YamashitaWinter has fallen on the South Pole. A small team, known as the Winterers, will remain at the Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station to continue their innovative research, a crucial part in the fight against climate change.
- CreatorGérard CarréPascal ChaumeilCaroline Van RuymbekeStarsCharles BerlingJulia PiatonPascal GreggoryA grisly find atop a mountain in the French Pyrenees leads investigator Martin Servaz into a twisted dance with a serial killer in this icy thriller.
- StarsChelsea HobbsJeremy GuilbautRobert WisdenA young woman must journey through the seasons to rescue her boyfriend who has been kidnapped by the evil Snow Queen.
- StarsKenneth BranaghEve BestMark TandyThe true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the South Pole, and his epic struggle to lead his twenty-eight man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
- StarsFilip BergValter SkarsgårdAnna ÅströmA group of young friends visit an abandoned ski resort in northern Sweden, where strange noises from the basement are just the start of a series of horrifying events.
- CreatorJóhann Ævar GrímssonSøren StærmoseStarsLena EndreBianca KronlöfAngunnguaq LarsenA research vessel disappears in the waters off Greenland. Pure coincidence or dirty conspiracy?
- CreatorIan WeirMichele McMahonStarsAdam BeachPascale HuttonKevin McNultySeries set in Yellowknife portrays renegade bush pilots at work and play in northern Canada.
- StarsLars MjøenKnut LystadTrond KirkvaagWhile attending the Nobel prize-giving ceremony in Oslo - themselves just having just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace - the Dal brothers all of a sudden find themselves incapable of controlling their own limbs, being sucked out of the building and onto a train by what seems to be an uncontrollable higher force. The train brings them to the icy snows of Lapland, where they come across a mysterious shaman. The shaman explains that he has summoned the brothers to Lapland because Irka, an ancient holy pitcher saved from the Lapplanders' sacred town of Atlant-Is before the town sank and disappeared in the northern ice more than 4000 years ago, has been stolen. The shaman hopes that the Dal brothers can help to retrieve the holy pitcher and the brothers naturally offer their immediate assistance. While attempting to trace the whereabouts of Irka, the Dal brothers are lead deeper and deeper into a tangled web of pottery, snow research, hidden identities, explosives, missing airplanes, ghostly monks, forgery, and ever expanding lies.
- StarsEric JohnsonJason PriestleyTed AthertonWhen an unexpected solo mountain trek ends in catastrophe for John Lauchlan, inspired fellow climbers set out to brave the elements and follow John's dream - to conquer the world's tallest peak, Mt. Everest.
- StarsMartin ShawSverre Anker OusdalStephen MooreBased on the book 'Scott and Amundsen' by Roland Huntford, "The Last Place on Earth" is an exploration of the rivalry between Captain Robert F. Scott and Ronald Amundsen as they attempt to reach the South Pole.
- 2011– 10 eps7.3 (289)TV SeriesStarsTakuya KimuraHaruka AyaseMasato SakaiSet in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. After a year, the exploration team is ordered to withdraw from the Antarctic station due to severe weather conditions. The dogs have to be left behind. The following year, the next team arrives at the Showa Base station and a miraculous reunion occurs between a dog handler accompanying the new team and two dogs, Taro and Shiro, that are brothers.
- StarsHeinz WeissWolfgang BüttnerNikita UljaschkynClemens Forell is sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in the Soviet Union and tries to escape the hopeless way through Siberia.
- StarsDavid SchofieldDavid RodiganMichael HaywardA gripping four-part drama about Sir Ernest Shackleton, the great explorer's epic Antarctic expeditions, based on his own journals.