Admiral Richard E. Byrd was one of the biggest heroes of his age in the '20s exploration race. His flight to the Antarctic in 1929, conducted as much for publicity as for science, was called the first media expedition – as well as the first known feat of aviation to the South Pole. Two cameramen from Paramount Newsreel, Willard Van der Veer and Joseph Rucker, captured the entire journey on film and won an Oscar® for their work titled WITH BYRD...

Skate into six winter wonderlands as you explore with Dora, imagine with The Backyardigans, and celebrate the holidays with Blue, Little Bill, Oswald, and Max & Ruby.

Recounts one of the history's greatest tales of survival, Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica. The expedition, Shackleton's third, followed the tragic death of the famous English polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his quest to the South Pole. Narrated by Liam Neeson.

Sally and Louise are having problems sharing a play structure in the classroom; they both want to go first! This reminds Mister Anthony of a Napkin Man story about the time Napkin Man helped two penguins, Pip and Pop, take turns going down an ice slide in the South Pole, one penguin at a time!

The Vision of Teams tells a compelling, real-life story that illustrates how a team with a shared vision can accomplish the extraordinary. Hosted by polar explorer Ann Bancroft, The Vision of Teams presents the amazing journey of the first women's team to ski across Antarctica to the South Pole. It illustrates how individuals can learn to work together as effective, goal-oriented, powerful teams. The Vision of Teams will inspire, challenge, and energize...

When Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton set sail into the Antarctic on August 8, 1914, he was already considered an explorer extraordinaire around the globe. With an eye for profit down south, Shackleton hired experienced cameraman Frank Hurley to join him on a brave journey across the South Pole...but within 80 miles of land, they found themselves and their ship trapped amongst heavily packed ice. What followed this moment of low is one of the greatest...

We live in the Age of Plastic. It's cheap, it's practical, and it's everywhere - from the highest mountains to the hottest deserts, from the North Pole to the South Pole. It's even part of us - inside our blood. Should we be worried? In Plastic Planet, director Werner Boote takes us on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the highest peaks of the Alps - to reveal the...

The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is one of the most amazing feats of physical and mental endurance of all time. After an horrific journey across hundreds of kilometres of frozen wasteland, during which his two companions perished, the world was amazed to hear that Douglas Mawson had survived. Some questioned how it was possible, and the media of the day reported that he'd considered eating the body of his dead comrade, Xavier Mertz....