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Encounters at the End of the World

2007

Werner Herzog journeys to Antarctica — not, he insists, to film penguins, but to meet the eccentric dreamers and scientists gathered at McMurdo Station. His idiosyncratic documentary drifts from undersea wonders to human folly at the edge of the earth.

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