See Encounters at the End of the World. Let me get that out of the way, right at the top.
It is an arrestingly beautiful, strange and serious, pleasingly quirky film written, directed and narrated by that strange and serious, pleasingly quirky fellow, Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, among others).
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Photography like this inspired Herzog to shootEncounters at the End of the World
The story chronicles Herzog's trip to Antarctica, where he filmed the scientists working at remote and icy outposts – geologists on an active volcano, glaciologists on icebergs the size of continents, microbiologists diving under a ceiling of ice. Herzog's budget came from the National Science Foundation, but he tells the audience up front that he isn't interested in another penguin movie; at one point he even wonders why society indulges "tree-huggers" trying to save wildlife, but not those who try to save humanity's disappearing cultures.
Did the National Science Foundation, perhaps the most respected and sought-after maker of grants for scientific research, get its money's worth? ...
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