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Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of polar explorer, Roald Amundsen, this movie covers his life and the dangerous way to the pole.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Glory and Honor (1998)
Plot Summary:
The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole (1983)
Plot Summary:
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he'd already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook's corner--as is this TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Great Alaskan Race (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Odyssey (2016)
Plot Summary:
Biopic of the great French ocean-going adventurer and filmmaker.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: factual, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, weird, documentary filmmaking
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Odyssey of Heroes (2012)
Plot Summary:
When their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Gold (2017)
Plot Summary:
Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing
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El Dorado (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994)
Plot Summary:
A telling of the story of the famous U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart who attempted to fly solo around the world in 1937. She disappeared during the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Nanga Parbat (2010)
Plot Summary:
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing, factual
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The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, West Germany, Norway
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, bleak, epic, serious, realistic, contemplative, period drama
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Against the Ice (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, powerful, dark, period piece
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Antarctica (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: depressing, ironic, suspenseful, serious, realistic, epic, tear jerker, tearjerker
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The White Dawn (1974)
Plot Summary:
Three stranded 1890s whalers (Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.) corrupt the culture of their Eskimo saviors.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, vintage
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North Face (2008)
Plot Summary:
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: touching, exciting, serious, captivating, breathtaking, inspirational, unusual plot structure, sad, intelligent, crying
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Togo (2019)
Plot Summary:
The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, atmospheric, exciting, tense, motivational, emotional, feel good, sad, saga
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The Mercy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yachtsman Donald Crowhurst's disastrous attempt to win the 1968 Golden Globe Race ends up with him creating an outrageous account of traveling the world alone by sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, scenic, exciting, tense, realistic, factual, sad, period drama
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Endless Night (2015)
Plot Summary:
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings from experienced polar travellers about the onset of winter. At great sacrifice the expedition reaches Peary's base camp. Josephine refuses to go home and wants to spend winter in the hut. Only the young Inuit woman Allaka, who lives in an igloo and knows about the cold, stays with her. As the long nights draw nearer, Josephine realises she has more in common with this woman from a different world than she thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, psychological, tense, realistic, stylized
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Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". This movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Jon Krakauer throughout the movie, and portrays what he was going through while climbing this mountain.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: inspirational, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Shackleton (2002)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 206 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, historical drama, period drama
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The Red Tent (1969)
Plot Summary:
Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: historical drama, exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, epic
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The Last King (2016)
Plot Summary:
Norway, 1204. A civil war between the birkebeiners —the king's men— and the baglers —supporters of the Norwegian aristocracy and the Church— ravages the country. Two men must protect a baby, the illegitimate son of King Håkon, who will be the future king and peacemaker, from those who want to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Hungary
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: heroic, epic, breathtaking, exciting, tense, captivating, saga, stylized, perverse
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Kon-Tiki (2012)
Plot Summary:
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: harsh, realistic, exciting, inspirational, epic, suspense, intense, factual, serious, tense
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Gagarin: First in Space (2013)
Plot Summary:
The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition in missile technology, the confrontation of superpowers - the USSR and the USA. In the first group of astronauts were selected from three thousand fighter pilots across the country. In twenty of the legendary got the best of the best. Which of them will fly first, no one knew. In this way, had to contend not only with the pull of the earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, uplifting, exciting, serious, captivating, emotional, dramatic
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Into the White (2012)
Plot Summary:
Into the White is an anti-war movie. High above the harsh Norwegian wilderness, English and German pilots shoot each other to the ground after a violent chance encounter. Isolated, they must fight to survive the brutal winter. Though war has made them enemies, antagonism is hard to maintain as days go by. Through mutual need, unlikely friendships bloom. Somehow, they become comrades. War, after all, is absurd.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, touching, breathtaking, social, poignant
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Alive (1993)
Plot Summary:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: realistic, inspirational, emotional, disturbing, suspense, sad, suspenseful, intense, breathtaking, exciting
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Dersu Uzala (1975)
Plot Summary:
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, dramatic, visually appealing, cerebral, visual, breathtaking, touching, stylized, inspirational, road movie
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Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Plot Summary:
This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult environment he studies the wolves, and realizes that the old beliefs about wolves and their supposed threat are almost totally false. Furthermore, he learns that humans represent a far greater threat to the land, and also to the wolves, a species which plays an important role in the ecosystem of the north.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, semi autobiographical, philosophical, offbeat, sensitive, anthropological, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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Arctic (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, suspense, touching, uplifting, disturbing, inspirational, captivating, action adventure, clever, intellectual
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The 33 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Colombia, Spain, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: factual, touching, suspense, tense, serious, period piece, captivating, inspirational, romantic, sad
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The Lost City of Z (2016)
Plot Summary:
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilazation in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: inspirational, meditative, exciting, period piece, suspense, atmospheric, factual, historical drama, motivational, retro