Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning (Region 3 DVD) 南極洲: 末日的地球 (Hong Kong Version)

Region Coding: Region 3 (Locked)

Starring:
Mark Terry
David Ainley
Alexandra Shackleton

Director:
Mark Terry

Audio Tracks: 
Dolby Digital EX, 5.1 Surround EX

Language: 
English

Subtitles:
English, Traditional Chinese 繁體中文字幕

Running Time: 
60 minutes

Production:
Polar Cap Productions (2009)

Distributor:
Vii Pillars Entertainment (HK)

Release Date:
4 June 2010

Synopsis:
The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning provides audiences with a rare glimpse of the Earth’s most undiscovered continent through the eyes of award-winning cinematographer, Damir Chytil, CSC, one of the world’s foremost polar cameramen and a pioneer of HD film photography. It is the mandate of this documentary to bring to light the theories and statistics first brought to the public’s attention in An Inconvenient Truth with hands-on exploration of the continent, its wildlife and the brave men and women who have given up the comforts of civilization in order to save it.

戈爾的奧斯卡金像獎最佳紀錄片『絕望真相』喚醒了世人對全球變暖所引發的環境問題的意識。但究竟時至今日情況如何？高清紀錄片『南極洲：末日的地球』將直闖氣候變遷危機的根源：南極洲。本片將進行獨家第一手探索，剖析冰寒大陸南極洲乃至全世界面臨的環境挑戰。影片探訪來自維納斯基研究站和英國南極調查局的多名科學家，英勇奮鬥在南極第一線的他們，長年抵受極端嚴酷的生存環境玫力於各種研究，亦收錄了世界各國眾多極地專家和科學研究者的採訪對話，以及企鵝孵卵時節等難得一見的野生動物片段。觀眾更將獲知企鵝開始自殺、融冰導致海平面即將上升以及南極大漠開始出現新植物等全新見聞。『南極洲：末日的地球』由屢獲殊榮的世界最知名極地攝影師達美芝迪運用高清攝影，向觀眾展現地球最神秘大陸的罕見風光。通過實地探索南極大陸及其野生動植物世界，尋訪以拯救世界為己任的無私無畏的科學家，從而解開牽動人心的『絕望真相』中種種理論及數據背後的真正秘密。