Antarctica: A Year on Ice

Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013) is a New Zealand documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Anthony Powell.

Every March the last flight leaves McMurdo Station, and a small group of scientists and support staff stays behind for the Antarctic winter. Powell spent over a decade on the ice before making this film. The time-lapse sequences are extraordinary — auroras, blizzard walls, months of darkness giving way to months of unbroken sun. But the film earns its depth through its interviews: people who chose this life explain what happens to your sense of time, and of yourself, when you are genuinely cut off from the rest of the world. Stream Antarctica: A Year on Ice online on iFILM.