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Critic Kim Newman
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... a stimulating, strange experience.

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Cast & Crew

Werner Herzog
As Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog
Director
Clive Oppenheimer
As Self - Volcanologist
Ernest Shackleton
As Self - (archive footage)
Shaun Phillip Cantwell
As Self - General Assistant
Peter Gorham
As Self - Physicist

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At the bottom of the world,scientists, philosophers and adventurers alike risk everything to explore the unforgiving environment of Antarctica. Werner Herzog takes us on a journey to the end of the Earth, where the landscape is as surreal as it is beautiful and the people who call it home are as extraordinary as they are ordinary. Through their stories and experiences, we discover the dreams that drive them and the secrets that lie beneath the ice. An epic and thought-provoking exploration of the last great mysteries of our planet.

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Encounters at the End of the World was released in theaters on September 1, 2007.