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Is the movie Antarctica: A Year on Ice available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

A Year on Ice (2013) — Anthony Powell’s immersive documentary that fills the screen with time-lapse vistas of ice, auroras and the relentless cycle of polar night and day. Spending a year at McMurdo and Scott Base, the film is a hymn to the continent’s extremes, following researchers, wildlife and the small human worlds carved out among the glaciers. Want to know whether it’s on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+? In this article we’ll check current streaming availability and how to catch those stunning shots of ice, penguins and the southern sky — plus note the festival praise the film has received.

Antarctica: A Year on Ice

Synopsis

Anthony Powell’s documentary drenches the vast screen in mesmerizing time-lapse panoramas of Antarctica while tracing life through every season at McMurdo and Scott Base, emerging as a stirring ode to the frozen continent and the heavens above.

Release date

2013

Duration

1h 32min

Rating

Watch on which platform Antarctica: A Year on Ice

Updated on 12/03/2026

Netflix

Not available

Disney+

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Prime Video

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Apple TV+

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