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- On the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during World War II, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency N.A.T.O. frequency, and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.
- When the power mysteriously fails and almost everyone disappears from a tourist ship in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore, the men deteriorate in body and mind until a dark truth emerges.
- In 1897 Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée with 2 colleagues prepares to fly over the North Pole in his balloon "Eagle".
- A group of seamen from Norway find a Soviet listening station and they become targets for both America and Russia. Another cold war takes place.
- Michael Palin undertakes a journey by the most direct route possible with the most land to cross from the North Pole to the South Pole.
- Two friends are travelling to the end of the earth to dance in the polar wilderness of Svalbard. On the way, they explore the history of our ideas of the Arctic, along with the grand questions of life, art and our place in the world.
- A young woman spends an adventurous winter with a trapper on Spitsbergen.
- Can we turn back the plastic tide - before it's too late?
- Series in which Steve Backshall looks at some of the world's most iconic ecosystems
- A dramatic encounter between Frost, a loving polar bear mother, and Asgeir Helgestad, a Norwegian wildlife filmmaker, documenting how climate change affects the lives of all living in the melting archipelago of Svalbard.
- Ex Nihilo is an experimental short documentary about life, death and our attempts to control them. It tells the stories of an advanced humanoid robot, a cryonics facility, where the brains of deceased people are held and of an international seed vault, where crop seed from around the world are held frozen. The first part is about one of the most advanced humanoid robots, HUBO. It can walk on uneven terrain, drive a vehicle and operate different tools. The second part is about Oregon Cryonics, a cryonics organization in Salem, Oregon, USA. At their facility human brains of deceased people are kept at very low temperatures. The third part is about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which s situated on the island of Spitsbergen midway between Norway and the North Pole. The vault holds seeds of more than 4000 different plant species at -18 °C. The crates of seeds from all around the world are kept side-by-side deep inside the frozen vault.
- There has never been so much plastic on Svalbard as there is now. As a result, animals and birds are seriously endangered. Polar scientist Børge Ousland is on the scene to document the situation.
- On their final mission of the season, the show's robotic spies infiltrate the animals living at the poles including king penguins, walruses, polar bears, puffins, elephant seals, guillemot birds, Arctic foxes, Arctic wolves and muskoxen.
- Africa's on again off again dance with Europe causes dramatic changes in the Medeterranean region and ongoing dangers from earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. In the not so distant past the sea was cut off from Earths oceans causing it to evaporate before being refilled when the Strait of Gibraltar reopened.
- Moscow has used vast tracks territory as security for centuries. Even today it's vast western territories surrounded by geographic barriers give it secure northern, eastern and southwestern boarders. But in the east the European plane is wide open to potential invaders as is the Central Asian steppe. The Soviet Union was much easier to defend when it controlled these areas. So Russian is seeking to bring them back under its control.
- Three separate holiday stories: X-mas, Robanaca and Kwanzaa. 1. Once more Robot Santa comes to town. Besides the violence he spreads, this time he sings to the crew of the pine tree that are needed for a proper "X-mas". The only problem is that the pine trees have been extinct for over 800 years. However they manage to get some seeds, reforesting the earth. As the oxygen levels explode Bender causes the whole earth to catch fire. 2. Several weeks later, out of laziness Bender insists on celebrating the fake "Robanaca". For the traditional oil wrestling he needs petroleum oil but all petroleum resources are empty. The Professor tells him that a small quantity might be left, buried deep inside the earth and the quest begins. The ship crashes and 500 Million years later Bender alone returns to the surface bringing with him petroleum oil that originates from the remains of the others. 3. The unrelated conclusion: Everybody are celebrating "Kwanzaa" at Hermes' home. Kwanzaa-bot breaks through the wall and explains the tradition of Kwanzaa where beeswax plays is needed for the special Kwanzaa-candles. Of course they have run out of it, so they have to fly to the space bees hive to get some. When they arrive they find out the bees are infected and going crazy. Finally the spirit of Kwanzaa kills the parasites and the space bees unite to attack the crew.
- Survival on Svalbard, alias Spitzbergen, inside the Artic circle, requires dealing with extreme cold. Top predator is the polar bear, his favorite prey the masterly fishing seal, while polar foxes control the bird population. The island is exceptionally rich in wildlife for the North, on account of the unique bounty of food, enough for hibernation reserves, in its two months non-stop summer, combined with colliding Caribbean and Artic sea currents providing ample nutrients as they also sweep up the nitrates and phosphates that elsewhere usually remain sunk on the ocean floor.
- Journey to Antarctica and the Arctic. Experience each region's sublime mystique and distinct beauty, and tune into their unique rhythms. Over the centuries, hardy explorers tested their wills against these unforgiving environments.
- A nice journey of Philippe from the island of Spitzberg in the Svalbard archipelago (the visit of the coal mine with the little train, Longyearbyen, the meeting with the Lutheran female priest in the church-the rifle for the protection against the bears-the chalet, the mass in the open air-the moment of friendliness with the Norwegian people and the eating of sausages) to the railway track in the forest-the rail bicycle- and the Namsen Salmon and Train Experience (the fishermen eating and sleeping in the train on the bridge-the best salmon river of Norway) passing by the ghost town of Pyramiden (the treaty of Svalbard of 1920, the Soviet coal mine settlement with its theater, swimming pool, schools and houses, the showcase, the closing of the mine in 1998, the visit of the mine with Johan), by the railway station of Lonsdal-Luonosvagge (the station master giving a cup of coffee to Philippe, the daily life of the station master), by the travel by train (the talk with the knitting women-the tradition to knit warm sweaters for the winter-) and by the Lofoten Islands (the beautiful landscapes of mountains and of the sea, the cod fishing).
- You might have heard of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: it's called the "doomsday vault", the backup of last resort for if the apocalypse happens. Except - well, perhaps that's a bit too dramatic.
- In Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle, there's a sundial that works 24 hours a day. Sort of. When it's sunny. Which it wasn't. Basically, don't rely on this for telling the time.
- I had an enormous amount of B-roll footage of Svalbard that I couldn't use, and the internet had a lot of questions about how to get there. Time to solve both those problems in one go.
- Welcome to Svalbard, a group of islands in the High Arctic, north of Norway; the one place on the planet where carrying a gun is a legal requirement, and for a very good reason.