Antarctica: On the Edge vs Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape

Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.4/10 for Antarctica: On the Edge). Antarctica: On the Edge is the shorter watch at 37m compared with 1h 8m. Antarctica: On the Edge is the older of the two (2014 against 2026). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 10.0/10
Year20142026
Length37m1h 8m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary, History, TV Movie
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorJon BowermasterLuke Wales
Main castTilda SwintonRalph Ineson

Synopsis

Antarctica: On the Edge

Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, the most forbidding continent on Planet Earth. It is a huge land covered with ice as thick as three miles, seemingly invulnerable, cold and dark for eight months of the year. Yet Antarctica is also a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its edges, arguably the most stunning, breathtaking and still-pristine place on earth. The one constant is that it is constantly changing…

Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape

Witnesses, survivors and front-line heroes recall the first days of the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986. Featuring rare archive footage of the world's worst ever nuclear accident.

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