Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

 

Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.

Typical for Werner Herzog, this exploration of a forbiddingly uninhabitable and strange continent is idiosyncratic and intense and offers insights no other director would achieve.

On re-watching: Always a fascinating watch, among Herzog's best documentaries.

Maltin***1/2: "This right-brain travelogue feeds the mind, the eye, and the mind's eye. Wryly, sometimes impatiently, narrated by the director, who dedicates the film to Roger Ebert."