• March 26, 2015
• At Home, Documentary

Early in Antarctica: A Year on Ice, it is explained that there are no children allowed (no surprise, really), but there are also no pets. NO PETS! It seems...

• March 25, 2015
• At Home, Documentary

Early in Encounters at the End of the World, director Werner Herzog muses in his voice-over narration about the hierarchy of power in the animal kingdom… which leads him...

• February 16, 2014
• At Home, Documentary, Television

Ernest Shackleton’s doomed Antarctic polar expedition is one of the great survival stories of modern times. After his ship The Endurance was destroyed by pack ice, leaving the ship’s...

• December 1, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Let me just start by saying this: If I had watched Eight Below in the comfort and privacy of my own home, I would have been ugly-crying. None of...

• December 1, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

It shouldn’t surprise me that books recounting the true heroic story of Ernest Shackleton’s failed Antarctic expedition of 1914-1916 are becoming popular reading for corporate executives. After all, it...