Una tempesta solar excepcional que provoca aurores boreals sobre Nova York altera les comunicacions per ràdio i fa que un pare i un fill contactin accidentalment a través d'una emissora de radioaficionat, tot i la distància temporal de trenta anys que els separa. El fill ho aprofita per avisar el pare de la seva mort imminent en un incendi, aquest fet genera altres conseqüències, entre elles l'assassinat de la mare. Ara pare i fill, separats per trenta anys, hauran de mirar de trobar l'assassí per tornar a canviar la història.
En un poble idíl·lic costaner escocès Macintyre (Peter Riegert), l'enviat d'una companyia petrolífera, negocia la compra de totes les propietats de la zona per construir-hi una refineria. Els habitants del poble veuen una oportunitat per enriquir-se, però l'obstinació del vell Ben (Fulton Mackay), propietari d'una platja, impedeix el tracte. Mac només pot oferir diners i la platja és tot el que Ben ambiciona. Mentrestant, el nouvingut se submergeix en un mode de vida que es mou a un ritme pausat, on el paisatge i la comunitat l'envolten als seus llaços.
Comedy icon Joanna Lumley pursues a life-long dream to track down the elusive and beautiful Northern Lights. She travels North across the Arctic Circle, up through Norway and finally to Svalbard, the most northerly permanently inhabited place on Earth, where she has to cope with temperatures approaching minus 30° C. Joanna’s journey takes her from train to boat and huskysled to snowmobile as she is pulled ever northwards and finally, in a breathtaking climax to the film, Joanna gets to see with her own eyes the spectacular beauty of the Northern Lights. As seen on ABC1.
In a near-future post apocalyptic world, a father must cross a dangerous landscape to reunite with his wife and daughter.
A look at the northern lights (aurora borealis) from aboriginal beliefs to scientific theories.
A terminally ill girl, who dreams of going to Finland to see the northern lights, falls in love
A black-and-white visual meditation of wilderness and the elements. Wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey returns to the triptych format for a cinematic experience like no other.
Six fearless surfers travel to the north coast of Iceland to ride waves unlike anything they've ever experienced, captured with high-tech cameras.
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the northern lights to take a horse-drawn sled and make his way to the sea, hoping to come back with abundant fish. He is overtaken by a snowstorm and is forced to find shelter in a small, isolated cabin that is home to a half-crazy widow, her baby, and a blind man. Driven to arson by her internal demons, the woman destroys the cabin. She and the blind man perish, but Heikki manages to save the baby. He is now faced with an even greater challenge as he holds the infant and looks in the direction of the coastline.
Constantly orbiting at 400 km (250 mi) above the earth, the ISS is perfectly situated to witness the beautiful streamers of green and red light emanating from the collision of highly charged solar wind particles with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the earth's atmosphere. Centered about the northern (Aurora Borealis) and southern (Aurora Australis) poles the Auroras move in an almost hypnotic dance below the space station.
The aurora borealis is a natural moving multicolour light display observed in the high northern latitude. This natural phenomenon is a source of imagination and awe that drives exploration of the world around us.
Dr. Brekke shared the science behind the aurora borealis as a visual manifestation on the sun-Earth connection. And how this also can affect our technology based society. He talked about the production of the documentary.
Arktis is a poetic approach to the bizarre landscape of ice, rock, and water; a journey to the arctic ocean and surroundings, with images and sounds. Seventy one-second scenes of the arctic serve as the original material, which is then transformed in its texture, time lapse, color and light qualities to create a material reminiscent of landscape painting. The sound collage uses fragments from sounds of nature and samples from a piece of music for violin and song, which are also transformed in a manner similar to that of the visual pictures. (Jürgen Reble)