Yes! Antarctica!
Here dwell curious creatures--
not solely penguins
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This is the only documentary film I own. From what I read it came out in a good year for documentaries; it was nominated for an Academy Award and lost to "Man on Wire". I can't say I'm sad that it lost because I've heard great things about that film, too, and it begot a memorable acceptance speech:
Penguins had been kind of en vogue (March of the Penguins, Happy Feet, Surf's Up, the ones from the Madagascar movies and the adaptation of the book Mr. Popper's Penguins is coming out soon), and even director Werner Herzog can't help but include them in a part of this film. But he finds the non-native inhabitants-- the humans-- even more interesting than the animals native to Antarctica. Quite a collection of real characters are those who live at the end of the world, but not in a Johnny-Depp-as-Jack Sparrow-at-World's-End kind of way.
Ah, and the cinematography! Haunting, awe-inspiring underwater footage, often set to stirring choral works. I wouldn't want to live there (in Antartica OR underwater in Antactica--unless I were a penguin or seal), yet I want to go to there again and again. Hence, why I own the film.
Encounters at the End of the World- IMDb page
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