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They're the last remaining coal miners in Longyearbyen after their predecessors founded and were the foundation of the town for more than a century. It is the best showing of current-day life here featuring a small group of locals whose drama needs no artificial hype. This 10-episode series’ aired on Norway's TV2 in 2018. So of course Svalbard has seen projects where locals are followed around by camera crews for months on end.
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There's clearly a fascination with reality TV shows set in the Arctic. But the Soviet Union accuses him and the station of espionage, injecting them into a battle of international tensions. In addition to the tensions of overseeing his crew through the awful isolation and hardship of the Svalbard winter while delivering the all-important project. It's an utterly epic tale : a lone man on leave from the Norwegian Air Force is sent to manage a high-tech satellite station and its crew of 25 men in Svalbard's northernmost settlement of Ny-Ålesund, where a historic space launch is planned during the height of the Cold War in 1967.
Resulting in a final project far different than the brothers hoped, but arguably more substantive for viewers. But then a plot twist of the kind only likely in unscripted real life occurs. Sure enough, they learn and sometimes love their exploits once they reach their destination and discover Mother Nature can be both friend and foe. This sets up an amusing (and not overly preachy green-minded) tone to be expected for would-be Arctic Surfer Dudes. Their character traits are established during preparatory scenes where they do things such as dig through supermarket dumpsters for all their expedition's food. Not to be confused with the 1979 film "Bear Island" set during WWII, " Bjørn øya" follows three brothers on a quixotic journey to Svalbard's southernmost island for what they hope is the ultimate surfing adventure. This is another "family" drama, but this time in real life. Part of it was filmed in the Canadian Arctic, but there's no obvious "OMG, there are trees in the frame" or other embarrassingly inauthentic footage. But the journey there is gripping popcorn fare that even local families are known to re-stream after a day of exploring the real-life outdoors. The original tale gets plenty of Hollywood adjustments - the main character is a girl instead of a boy and the predictable ending is "heartwarming" in the uber- saccharine sense. The plot, based on a 1971 novel, involves three siblings going through family/peer tensions who hide aboard a helicopter they think is bound for their father's hometown on the mainland, but instead end up stranded in the wilderness of Svalbard. It is, according to a Hollywood Reporter review, "a captivating throwback to innocent Saturday-matinee fare that tells a gripping survival story against a backdrop of breathtaking frozen landscapes. It also has beautiful polar bear footage and the cutest white husky you'll ever see sitting down to a plate of meatballs." Since this list is admittedly light on Hollywood-friendly films, we're putting this all-audiences release where readers can see it quickly.
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All are available via commercial streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon, and a few can be seen free in whole or in part at legal sites such as. Some documentaries, in particular, also feature other areas. Most of these were filmed entirely in Svalbard, which helps them make the cut due to the authenticity factor, but some such as major motion pictures were also filmed on studio sets (especially the indoor scenes).
So with the help of people who've lived in Svalbard and/or been on either side of the camera over many years, here are twelve movies and TV shows worth watching that are NOT "The Golden Compass" (Rotten Tomatoes score: 42%) or "Fortitude". Which often means lesser-known filmmakers who overcome the arctic elements to capture gripping stories get lost in the whiteout of bright lights. But some of those have no place on any "best" list.
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There are lots of "best of" Svalbard movie listicles, all mostly consisting of the same "major project" titles released during the past few decades of moviemaking here.