Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice (1967)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 59分
演出 : Quentin Brown
シノプシス
The family is on the shore of Pelly Bay in May-June. A seal basks beside its hole under a warming sun. The hunter stalks the seal, kills it and drags it to the family camp on shore. Man and wife skin the seal, cutting the hide into rings that girdle the body. Stripped of blubber, the rings are then cut spirally into long thongs. The boy plays on the shingle imitating the circling gulls, while the man stretches his thongs between rocks and scrapes away the fur. The woman dresses the seal, wasting nothing, braiding the intestines.
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Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Zenobia, has changed Kassim into a baboon in order to have her own son crowned as caliph. Sinbad, his crew, the Princess and the transformed Prince travel to a distant land, fighting every obstacle Zenobia places in their path, to seek the advice of a legendary wise man who can possibly tell how to end the spell.
まだ氷河が残る太古の北米。ある集落に暮らす3人兄弟の末弟キナイは、村から魚を盗んだ熊を追って、逆に熊に襲われる。長兄シトゥカの助けでキナイは救われるが、代わりにシトゥカは命を落としてしまう。怒ったキナイは熊から命を奪うが、直後、精霊の力で彼は熊の姿に変えられてしまう。キナイは森をあてもなく歩き回り、母とはぐれた子熊コーダと出会う。一方、次男デナヒは熊となったキナイを殺された兄弟の仇だと誤解する。
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災厄によって人類が逃げ出し、滅亡に向かいつつある地球。ある理由で北極に残った老科学者オーガスティンは、取り残された少女と出会い、共に生活を始める。そんな中、長い探査任務を終えた宇宙船が地球に帰還しようとしていることが判明する。宇宙船の乗組員サリーは、地球との交信が途絶えたことに不安を抱きながらも、仲間たちと航行を続けていた。そこでオーガスティンは、地球がすでに帰還できる状態ではなくなっている現状を宇宙船に伝えようと奮闘する。
ジョン・ギャリティと別居中の妻、そして幼い息子は、地球を破壊する彗星が地球に接近する中、聖域を探す危険な旅に出る。都市が破壊される恐怖の中、ギャリティ家は人間の最良と最悪の面を体験する。地球滅亡へのカウントダウンがゼロに近づく中、彼らの驚くべき旅は、可能性のある安全な避難所へのギリギリの絶望的な飛行で頂点に達する。
雑誌「LIFE」の写真管理部で働くウォルター・ミティは、思いを寄せる女性と会話もできない臆病者。唯一の特技は妄想することだった。ある日、「LIFE」表紙に使用する写真のネガが見当たらない気付いたウォルターはカメラマンを捜す旅へ出る。ニューヨークからグリーンランド、アイスランド、ヒマラヤへと奇想天外な旅がウォルターの人生を変えていく。
Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
１８６０年代、世界各地の海で、謎の怪物による船舶の沈没事故が相次いで発生。海洋学者のアロナックス教授らはアメリカ政府から派遣され、船で調査に乗り出す。ある夜、彼らの乗った船は謎の物体と衝突。それは、権力と戦争を憎む天才科学者ネモ船長率いる万能潜水艦ノーチラス号だった。教授たちは船長に招かれ、海底へと旅に出る。
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.
北極圏の雪原地帯に不時着したパイロット・オボァガード。壊れた機体をシェルターとして利用し、食糧確保や救難信号の発信など、自ら定めたルーティーンをこなしながら、救助が来るのを辛抱強く待つ。そしてついに、救助ヘリコプターがやって来るが...
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.
It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacier are causing it to melt. Archer's warnings are ignored, so he heads to the Arctic to find indisputable evidence. Upon arrival, he realizes humankind is under immediate threat, and races home to save his family. The glacier collapses, with devastating consequences. Astonishing weather patterns emerge and plunge the world's temperatures into steep decline.
When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
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.
In 2100, when humanity has abandoned the earth, a colony of extravagant creatures still thrives in the deepest abyss of the ocean.
ジョン・W・キャンベル・Jrの『影が行く』を基にハワード・ホークスが製作した50年代SF映画の代表傑作。アラスカの観測基地を舞台に、発掘された氷塊の中から出現した吸血異星人と戦う軍人・科学者たち。ダイナミックな演出でクライマックスまで一気に見せる。 1982年には、ジョン・カーペンター監督によりリメイク作品の『遊星からの物体X』が製作された。
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
