Showing in the True Stories strand, Werner Herzog's Oscar-nominated film finds the legendary director in Antarctica.
At McMurdo Research station he meets the scientists, researchers and workers who inhabit a remote, almost magical world. He follows both the divers below the ice and the vulcanologists into the mouths of active volcanoes but he also finds the eccentrics who make up this diverse community.
Among them are a former banker who now drives a huge truck, a plumber who claims to be descended from the Aztec kings and a female researcher whose turn at the camp's talent show is to fold herself into a suitcase.
Beautifully shot, with jaw-dropping underwater sequences, Encounters... is Herzog at his observational best.
On TV
First Shown
| Date | Time | Channel |
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| Tuesday 22 December 2009 | 10PM | More4 |
Last Shown
| Date | Time | Channel |
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| Tuesday 22 December 2009 | 10PM | More4 |
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