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Helen's Polar Challenge for Sport Relief

Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton makes an epic 500-mile journey to the South Pole by kite, by ski and - in a world first - by bike, to raise awarene

2012

Tears of Antarctica

2011

Life in the Freezer

Sir David Attenborough looks at the natural history of the Antarctic continent

1993

Continent 7: Antarctica

Take a journey to Antarctica to experience the world’s most extreme wilderness, to see the massive undertaking it is to support human life there, and

2016

Through the Homeland of Ice and Storms

In 1989, the German polar explorer Arved Fuchs and the South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner set out together to reach the South Pole on skis wi

1990

Shackleton: Death or Glory

This series follows a modern expedition that re-creates Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition, which launched in 1914. The series joins a

2013

Jane McDonald: From Pole to Pole

Jane sets off on a mission, travelling from Antarctica to the Arctic Circle to experience bucket-list adventures in some of the most breathtaking plac

2026

The Black Box on Earth

In 2049, the only remaining data center "Black Box" on the planet rendered uninhabitable by climate disaster. The recorder who resides in "Black Box"

2023

Frozen Planet

David Attenborough travels to the end of the earth, taking viewers on an extraordinary journey across the polar regions of our planet.

2011

Blizzard: Race to the Pole

Series following the reconstruction of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's epic, but ill-fated, trek to the South Pole in 1911

2007

Frozen Planet II

Ten years on from the original Frozen Planet, this documentary series takes audiences back to the wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctica and tells

2022

On Thin Ice

Double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell, TV presenter Ben Fogle and Doctor Ed Coats compete in one of the world’s greatest challenges – the 2009

2009

Shackleton Epic

The Endurance Expedition is the most extraordinary adventure and survival story ever told. The greatest explorer of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton le

2014

Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958

1955

The Funny Chef of South Polar

The Japanese 38th South Pole research expedition team are at the Dome base. Located 1,000 km away from the main Showa base at an altitude of 3,800 m,

2019

Pingu

Playful penguin Pingu lives with his family in Antarctica, where he often finds himself caught up in mischievous high jinks with his pal Robby.

1986

Antarctica

Set 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.

2011

The Head

In an isolated and inaccessible Antarctic research station in which winter has fallen on the South Pole and the sun will soon disappear for the next s

2020

Shackleton

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship

2002

A Place Further than the Universe

Scenery that we have never seen. Sounds that we have never heard. Scent that we have never smelled. Food that we have never tasted. And the surge of e

2018