Top Cast
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Peter Finch
Umberto Nobile
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Sean Connery
Roald Amundsen
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Claudia Cardinale
Valeria
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Hardy Krüger
Einar Lundborg
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Eduard Martsevich
Finn Malmgren
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Grigoriy Gay
Rudolf Samoylovich
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Nikita Mikhalkov
Boris Chukhnovskiy
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Luigi Vannucchi
Captain Zappi
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Mario Adorf
Giuseppe Biagi
Overview
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
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True Spirit
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The Hindenburg
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Cave Rescue
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Blueback
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Against the Ice
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The Spirit of St. Louis
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The Call of the Wild
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
I Am David
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.