4 Films & TV Shows Set In Antarctica During The 1990s
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A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
🇲🇽 Mexico California 🇦🇶 Antarctica 🇳🇨 New Caledonia The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sHe's Turtly Amazing — A sea turtle who was hatched in 1959 spends the next 50 years traveling the world while it is being changed by global warming. Born on a Baja, California beach in 1959, new hatchling Sammy must do what his fellow newborn sea turtles are doing: race across the beach to the ocean before they are captured by a seagull or crab. Thus begins Sammy's incredible fifty-year ocean journey. Along the way he meets his best friend, a fellow turtle named Ray, and overcomes obstacles both natural and man-made while trying to fulfill his dream of travelling around the world. Throughout his voyage, Sammy never forgets about Shelly - the turtle he saved on his first day and loves passionately from afar. Based on the actual trajectory of a sea turtle's life, the film illustrates the dangers humans pose to the species' survival. The film combines entertainment with an important environmental message.
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Eight Below
British Columbia 🇳🇴 Norway 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇳🇿 New Zealand 🇦🇶 Antarctica The 1990sThe Most Amazing Story Of Survival, Friendship, And Adventure Ever Told. — 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.
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Ice Bound - A Woman's Survival at the South Pole
🇦🇶 Antarctica The 1990sNature would test her strength. Fate would prove her courage — It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is little love lost between the somewhat aloof Nielsen and her more down-to-earth colleagues, a strong bond develops among them as the extreme Antarctic winter progresses. Nielsen, in particular, grows quite close to two of the "Polies": Big John Penny (Aidan Devine) and Claire Furinski (Cynthia Mace).
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The X Files
District of Columbia Texas 🇹🇳 Tunisia 🇦🇶 Antarctica The 1990sFight the Future — Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.