TY - BOOK TI - Encounters at the end of the world AV - G860 PY - 2007///] CY - [Silver Spring, Maryland] : , Discovery Communications, Chatsworth, CA : PB - Distributed by Image Entertainment. KW - Research KW - Antarctica. KW - Research teams KW - Antarctica. KW - Human beings KW - Effect of climate on N1 - Originally produced as a documentary motion picture in 2007; Disc 1 is missing; Disc 1: Encounters at the end of the world -- Why? -- Ivan -- Professional dreamers -- Survival school -- Seal scientists -- Spirit -- Dive camp -- Under the frozen sky -- Celebration -- Stories to tell -- Absurd quests -- Penguins -- Mount Erebus -- South Pole shrine -- Exploring the volcano -- Neutrino project -- End credits ; Special features: Commentary with director Werner Herzog, producer Henry Kaiser and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger [audio only]; Featurettes Under the ice (36 min.); Over the ice (10 min.); Dive locker interview (18 min.); South Pole exorcism (12 min.); Seals & men (4 min.); Trailer (2 min.). Disc 2: Jonathan Demme interviews Werner Herzog [at the Museum of the Moving Image, NYC, June 5, 2008] / producers, Michelle Caputo, Shannon Hartman ; Art & Industry (67 min.); Edited by Joe Bini ; director of photography, Peter Zeitlinger ; music composed by Henry Kaiser & David Lindley; Narrated by Werner Herzog N2 - This film, like many from director Werner Herzog, is a poem of oddness and beauty. Investigating the lives of the "professional dreamers" who conduct research at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, he finds a happily cynical lot, who regard climate change and the potential extinction of Homo sapiens in rather a different light than most people. They study penguins, seals, volcanoes, miniscule underwater ER -