Encounters at the End of the World (2007) July 17, 2008

In documentaries such as 'Grizzly Man' and' Little Dieter Needs to Fly,'Werner Herzog has proven to be our cinematic poet laureate of people living in extremes. In 'Encounters at the End of the World,' Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, on Ross Island, the headquarters for the National Science Foundation and home to 1,100 people during the austral summer (October to February). Beyond the settlement, he ventures through a science-fiction landscape, from the under-ice depths of the Ross Sea, to the brink of the Mount Erebus volcano.