With Byrd at the South Pole (1930)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 22分
演出 : Julian Johnson
シノプシス
With Byrd at the South Pole (1930) is a documentary film about Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his 1st quest to the South Pole beginning at the Little America-Exploration Base. The film's soundtrack consists mostly of music and sound effects, with narration read by Floyd Gibbons. The film won at the 3rd Academy Awards for Best Cinematography.
軍隊という管理下に置かれた人間のやりきれない気持ちをコメディ・タッチで描いたアメリカンニューシネマの佳作。基地の募金箱から40ドルぽっちを盗もうとした罪で8年の実刑が決まったダメ水兵を下士官2人が休暇気分で護送することになる。3人はやがて奇妙な連帯感で結ばれていくが……。
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladikov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo on it. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton, who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale tries to put Vladikov out of business.
南大西洋を航海中の米軍の駆逐艦ヘインズは自艦に接近してきた独軍の潜水艦を捕捉し、やがて両者の間で一騎打ちが火蓋を切る。駆逐艦の艦長マレルはかつて妻を戦争で失い、対する独軍潜水艦の艦長フォン・ストルベルグも、愛児たちを祖国のために失った男。2人ともに戦争に対して実は批判的である立場ながら、見えない相手を好敵手と見なし、全力で戦いに臨む。やがて両者の間には互いに対する奇妙な尊敬の念が芽生えていく。
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.
This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film explores the life in Antarctica, both for the animals that live their and the scientist that work there.
This charming animated adventure follows a young polar bear, Lars, as he befriends Robbie, a seal. Together, these two form a friendship that proves different breeds of animals can get along perfectly well.
Maverick Navy lieutenant Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he's been given one last chance to clean up his record. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham, his nemesis, would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So, Graham stacks the deck against him and assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a diesel-powered WW2 submarine that can barely keep afloat. To make matters worse, Dodge's crew is a collection of maladjusted, mistake-prone misfits. Then, he's tagged the "enemy" in a crucial war game, and ordered to take on the U.S. Navy's best.
南極にある皇帝ペンギンの国“エンペラー帝国”。彼らにとって何より大事なことは、自分だけの“心の歌”を見つけること。ところがマンブルは筋金入りの音痴で、小学校では幼なじみのグローリアが美声を披露するのとは対照的に調子外れな音程で大非難を浴びる始末。その代わり生まれつきタップダンスが得意なマンブルは、アデリー・ペンギンの5人組“アミーゴス”に踊りを絶賛され意気投合。しかし、そのダンスが帝国に災いをもたらすと判断した長老の命令でマンブルは追放の身に。さらに、ペンギンの食糧となる魚を乱獲する人間たちを説得しに向かった彼は、挙句に捕らえられてしまう。
退役を迎え、ハワイからアメリカ本土に最後の航海に出たアメリカ海軍戦艦「ミズーリ」。艦長のサプライズ誕生日パーティーと偽りヘリが着艦。しかしそのヘリには元CIAエージェント、ストラニクス率いるテロリスト一味が乗っていたのだ。副艦長・クリル中佐も仲間の一味で彼らを手引きしていた。クリル中佐は艦長を殺害、テロリストどもは他の乗員を船倉に監禁してしまう。彼らの目的は、艦に搭載されている核弾頭搭載トマホーク巡航ミサイルのブラックマーケットへの転売だった。 ただひとり難を逃れたのは、冷蔵庫に監禁されていたコック長のライバック兵曹のみ。しかし彼の正体は、元海軍特殊部隊「SEAL」の対テロ部隊の指揮官だった。彼は、ある作戦で部下が多数死傷し、当時の情報将校を殴打し降格処分になってしまった。それをアダムス艦長が不憫に思い、彼を自分の手元に置いてコック長という任務に就かせていたのである。 救出した同僚やケーキの中にいた女性ダンサーのジョーダン・テイトと共に、ライバックの反撃が始まる。
「トップガン」のトニー・スコットが挑むポリティカル・サスペンス。クーデターが勃発しロシア情勢は一気に悪化、反乱軍が核施設を制圧した事で世界は第三次大戦の危機を迎えた。米海軍はベテランの艦長と新任の副長を乗せた原潜アラバマを派遣するが、核攻撃準備の指令をめぐって艦長と副長は対立してしまう……。
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.
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.
Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the crew of his vessel 'The Endurance', which was trapped in the ice floes and frigid open ocean of the Antarctic in 1914. Shackleton decided, with many of his crew injured and weak from exposure and starvation, to take a team of his fittest men and attempt to find help. Setting out in appalling conditions with hopelessly inadequate equipment, they endured all weather and terrain and finally reached safety. Persuading a local team of his confidence that the abandoned team would still be alive, he set out again to find them. After almost 2 years trapped on the ice, all members of the crew were finally rescued.
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.
1958年、南極。日本の第1次越冬隊員たちは、第2次隊員と交代すべく昭和基地を後にした。だが悪天候が続き、ついに第2次隊員たちは上陸を断念、越冬の中止が決定される。樺太犬の世話係を務めていた潮田と越智は、その知らせを聞いて驚愕する。基地には15頭の犬が残されているのだ。だがもはや連れ戻す余裕はなく、2人は断腸の思いで南極を後にする。帰国した潮田は、犬の飼い主たちへの謝罪の旅を始める。
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.