Antarctica: A Year on Ice

Way too much screen time is given over to folks describing what it's like to live in such a place, as opposed to, you know, actually living there.

"Antarctica" ultimately does evoke a sense of the place - its magnificent emptiness and inhuman, unspoiled purity.

It is the simple glimpses of ordinary life in an extraordinary place that are the most stirring moments in the film.

... come for the beauty and adventure of seeing nature's last holy land but stay for the interesting and unusual story of individuals who brave isolation and privation to experience something that so few have ever felt.