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  • 2008
  • G
  • Discovery Films
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • G
  • Discovery Films
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Werner Herzog confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations with Encounters at the End of the World. In this visually stunning exploration, Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home to eleven hundred people during the austral summer (Oct-Fe...

Directed By: Werner Herzog

Written By: Werner Herzog

  • 2008
  • G
  • Discovery Films
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • G
  • Discovery Films
  • 1 h 39 m

Encounters at the End of the World

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
80
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 28 User Ratings
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Summary Werner Herzog confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations with Encounters at the End of the World. In this visually stunning exploration, Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home to eleven hundred people during the austral summer (Oct-Fe...

Directed By: Werner Herzog

Written By: Werner Herzog

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100
Werner Herzog is a stranger in a strange land as soon as he gets out of bed in the morning: in this travelogue of Antarctica, his perverse curiosity and zest for the harshest extremes of nature transform what might have been a standard TV special into an idiosyncratic expression of wonder.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
90
Like many of Mr. Herzog's movies, fiction and nonfiction, Encounters at the End of the World itself has the quality of a dream: it's at once vivid and vague, easy to grasp and somehow beyond reach.
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Generally Favorable Based on 28 User Ratings
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88
All this is as fascinating as it is humbling, even when Herzog ventures a little too far down eccentricity's back alley.
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
80
It's as much fun to anticipate what he's (Herzog) going to say as it is to appreciate the snowy landscapes, belching volcanoes and mustachioed seals before his lens. And what could have been a conventional travelogue becomes a sort of ruminative odyssey of the mind.
By Desson Thomson FULL REVIEW
75
A sort of distracted, freewheeling form of inquiry and observation drives Encounters At The End Of The World, a loosely constructed documentary that seems to have been made on a whim.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
70
Retains considerable entertainment value on the strength of Herzog's never-dull, very personal narrating style.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
60
Creating a hypnotically digressive travelogue, Herzog wanders from soul to soul, asking deceptively mild questions to potent effect.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Discovery Films, Creative Differences Productions, Discovery Channel, Discovery Communications
Release Date Jun 11, 2008
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating G
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Website http://encountersfilm.com/
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Chlotrudis Awards
• 2 Nominations

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