SilverDocs | AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival

June 21 - 27, 2010

2008 Film Guide

ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD

In his first documentary since GRIZZLY MAN, Werner Herzog travels to McMurdo Station in Antarctica as a guest of the National Science Foundation. The resulting account is a lyrical meditation on the stark landscape and a portrait of the researchers who risk their lives and sanity for the sake of science. More...

ENGLISH SURGEON, THE
ENGLISH SURGEON, THE

British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh resides in South London, but he spends several weeks a year in Ukraine performing surgeries with the crudest of tools in a country where neurosurgery barely exists. His skills have saved innumerable lives, yet Dr. Marsh refuses to slow down until he’s saved every possible life. More...

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