Top Arctic Movies / TV
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1.
Frozen Planet II (2022–2023)
Episode:
Frozen Lands
(2022)
TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary
Enter the largest land-habitat on Earth, home to great Boreal forests and the barren tundra where the seasons bring both challenges and opportunities.
Director: Jane Atkins | Stars: David Attenborough, Matt Erhardt, Will Lawson, Justin Maguire
Votes: 187
3.
Animal Super Parents (2015– )
Episode:
It Takes Two
(2015)
Documentary
It may take two to make a baby - but not necessarily two to bring it up. So what makes a parent decide to stay or go? Especially if that parent is a dad. From the California mouse mother ... See full summary »
4.
Frozen Planet II (2022–2023)
Episode:
Frozen Ocean
(2022)
TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary
This edition looks at the Arctic Ocean, as after 4 months of winter darkness the sun returns. Mother polar bears emerge from their dens, a pod of beluga whales confined to an ice hole wait for release, harp seal mothers teach their pups.
Director: Rachel Scott | Stars: David Attenborough, Bjorne Kvernmo, Erin McFadden, Jamie McPherson
Votes: 239
5.
Frozen Planet II (2022–2023)
Episode:
Frozen Worlds
(2022)
TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary
The series begins by travelling from pole to pole revealing the frozen worlds that exist across the world and the animals that live in them. Antarctica, the Himalaya, the Great Steppe, boreal forest, tundra and the Arctic are visited.
Director: Alex Lanchester | Stars: David Attenborough, Raymond Besant, Helen Hobin, Sam Lewis
Votes: 293
6.
Planet Earth (2006)
Episode:
Seasonal Forests
(2006)
TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, Family
Trees are earth's largest organisms and are also one of the planet's oldest inhabitants. Seasonal forests (unlike tropical rain-forest) the largest land habitats. A third of all trees grow ... See full summary »
Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield | Stars: David Attenborough, Sigourney Weaver, Dany Cleyet-Marrel, Nikolay Drozdov
Votes: 2,685
7.
Planet Earth (2006)
Episode:
Ice Worlds
(2006)
TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, Family
The polar caps have the most extreme seasonal contrasts, growing and melting vast ice masses, so wildlife adapts by annual migrations. The majority of Antartica is a vast barren permafrost.... See full summary »
Director: Alastair Fothergill | Stars: David Attenborough, Sigourney Weaver, Doug Allan, Nikolay Drozdov
Votes: 3,005
8. Slash/Back (2022)
86 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
In Nunavut, four girls who like horror and alien movies, love their phones and even their poor elders who believe in shapeshifters because "they didn't have the internet" realize local disappearances are linked to a shapeshifting alien.
Director: Nyla Innuksuk | Stars: Kristian Bruun, Troy James, Shaun Benson, Tasiana Shirley
Votes: 1,947
9. Never Cry Wolf (1983)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Director: Carroll Ballard | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah
Votes: 8,788 | Gross: $29.60M
10. The Thing from Another World (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 33,390
11. Polar Bear (2022)
PG | 84 min | Documentary
Follows a new mother as she prepares to navigate motherhood in the challenging world that polar bears face today.
Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson | Star: Catherine Keener
Votes: 837
12. Bear Witness (2022)
G | 83 min | Documentary
A journey alongside the filmmakers behind Disneynature's Polar Bear (2022) as they face profound challenges 300 miles from the North Pole to film one of the planet's most intriguing creatures.
Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson | Stars: Blair Underwood, Jon Aars, Tom Foreman, Bjorne Kvernmo
Votes: 171
13. A Year in the Ice: The Arctic Drift (2021 TV Special)
68 min | Documentary
An intrepid team of 300 scientists spend a year in harsh conditions deep in the Arctic, on a pioneering expedition to secure vital answers to help us deal with climate change.
Director: Ashley Morris
Votes: 53
14.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Arctic Drift
(2021)
TV-PG | Documentary
Scientists on a daring polar voyage to uncover the Arctic's climate secrets.
Director: Ashley Morris | Stars: John Cassano, Ellen Damm, Alexandr Erpulev, Allison Fong
Votes: 81
15. National Treasure (2004)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.
Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean
Votes: 355,239 | Gross: $173.01M
16. Zygote (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
Stranded in an Arctic mine, two lone survivors are forced to fight for their lives, evading and hiding from a new kind of terror.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Jose Pablo Cantillo
Votes: 5,904
17.
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan (2018– )
Episode:
The Christmas Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan: The Arctic
(2018)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy
Romesh travels the furthest he's ever travelled outside his cosy comfort zone as he heads to the Canadian Arctic. The comedian spends a week, guided by Inuit actor Johnny Issaluk, learning about life in this extreme environment.
Director: Chris Cottam | Stars: Romesh Ranganathan, Johnny Issaluk, Dan Fredenburgh, Laura Stevely
Votes: 39
18. Ice Station Zebra (1968)
G | 148 min | Adventure, Thriller
USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown
Votes: 11,883
19. Maïna (2013)
102 min | Drama
A Canadian aboriginal woman journeys to the Arctic in search of a missing member of her tribe, and falls in love with a man from a rival clan.
Director: Michel Poulette | Stars: Roseanne Supernault, Ipeelie Ootoova, Uapshkuss Thernish, Eric Schweig
Votes: 502
20. The Snow Walker (2003)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Drama
A pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing in the Arctic tundra.
Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell, Kiersten Warren
Votes: 11,373
21. Brother Bear (2003)
G | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.
Directors: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis, Jason Raize
Votes: 123,852 | Gross: $85.34M
22. Big Miracle (2012)
PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, John Pingayak, Ahmaogak Sweeney
Votes: 20,515 | Gross: $20.11M
23. Chloe and Theo (2015)
PG-13 | 81 min | Comedy, Drama
From the northern ice comes a gentler kind of hero.
Director: Ezna Sands | Stars: Theo Ikummaq, Dakota Johnson, Ashley Springer, André De Shields
Votes: 1,808
24.
Expedition with Steve Backshall (2019–2022)
Episode:
Arctic: Ice Mountain
(2019)
48 min | Documentary
Steve Backshall leads a team on a mission to make the worlds first ascent of a remote mountain in Greenland.
Stars: Steve Backshall, Katy Fraser, Tamsin Gay, Aldo Kane
Votes: 13
25.
Expedition with Steve Backshall (2019–2022)
Episode:
Arctic: Frozen Frontier
(2020)
51 min | Documentary
Explorers head to Greenland in the Arctic, where they kayak through the world's largest fjord during the spring melt, the most dangerous time of the year. They kayak for 5 days up the fjord... See full summary »
Stars: Steve Backshall, Aldo Kane, Sarah McNair-Landry
Votes: 11
26. Arctic (2018)
PG-13 | 98 min | Adventure, Drama
A man stranded in the Arctic after a plane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown.
Director: Joe Penna | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir, Tintrinai Thikhasuk
Votes: 58,350 | Gross: $2.41M
27.
Prehistoric Planet (2022–2023)
Episode:
North America
(2023)
TV-PG | 38 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Not many can intimidate North America's top predator, Tyrannosaurus rex, whose size and bite are a deadly combo, except for a giant winged foe.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 263
28. Amazing Dogs (2019– )
Documentary
This show travels the world to study all 34 extraordinary canine species - from the Arctic fox to South America's maned wolves and everything in between.
Star: Patrick Aryee
Votes: 19
29.
Our Planet (2019–2023)
Episode:
World on the Move
(2023)
TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary
Be it buffalo, polar bears, humpback whales or albatross chicks, migration is a vital survival strategy for animals to feed, reproduce and find home.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 496
30.
Our Planet (2019–2023)
Episode:
Following the Sun
(2023)
TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary
As summer spreads across our solar-powered planet, honey bees toil, snow geese breed, tadpoles awaken and lions stalk wildebeest in search of lush grass.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 423
31.
Our Planet (2019–2023)
Episode:
Freedom to Roam
(2023)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary
As snow geese, antelope, army ants and gray whales dodge predators and pollution, get a closer look at how the modern world impacts animal migration.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 379
32. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
PG-13 | 163 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg
Votes: 247,269 | Gross: $172.14M
33.
Planet Earth III (2023)
Episode:
Coasts
(2023)
TV-PG | 59 min | Documentary
Sir David Attenborough explores the dangerous frontiers created by the world's coasts, where animals fight for survival amidst constant change. Cape fur seals, sea angels, lions, archer fish, flamingos and green turtles feature.
Stars: David Attenborough, Keron Murray, Braydon Moloney, Katharine Robertson
Votes: 457
34.
Planet Earth III (2023)
Episode:
Extremes
(2023)
TV-PG | 59 min | Documentary
Uncover stories where life exists amongst Earth's greatest natural wonders.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 218
35. Arctic Vets (2021– )
Documentary
Follows a team of veterinarians as they treat arctic animals in Canada's north.
Star: Andria Barrett
Votes: 48
36.
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (2013– )
Episode:
Swedish Arctic Circle
(2014)
Documentary, Adventure
Ben stays with a couple that live north of the Arctic Circle, Gaynor is from London and she quit a good paying job to go and live and marry Milos a Slovakian expat in northern Sweden. Here ... See full summary »
Star: Ben Fogle
Votes: 20
37. Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold (2024)
Documentary, Adventure
Professional adventure rock climber Alex Honnold embarks on a lifelong dream - an epic climbing quest across the remotest and toughest walls and peaks of Greenland.
Stars: Alex Honnold, Aldo Kane, Mikey Schaefer, Hazel Findlay
Votes: 489
38. Operation Arctic Cure (2024)
44 min | Documentary
War reporter Bob Woodruff leads veterans on an Arctic expedition to test a cure for post-traumatic stress and depression: the experience of awe in nature. As they trek across one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Read
Votes: 17
39. Snow Going Back: Comic Relief v the Arctic (2024)
59 min | Documentary, Comedy, Sport
As the headline piece for this year's Red Nose Day campaign, four brave female celebrities head to the Arctic Circle to take part in Comic Relief's coldest ever challenge.
Director: David Sutton
40. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Two ancient titans, Godzilla and Kong, clash in an epic battle as humans unravel their intertwined origins and connection to Skull Island's mysteries.
Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle
Votes: 40,812
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