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You can watch Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica (2008) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is considered one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, scientist and adventurer Tim Jarvis is retracing the gruelling experience, with the same meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically — and mentally — as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death.
Frost-bitten isolation and the bone-chilling silence of the ice settle deep into your skin as this reenactment mimics the original expedition's lethal struggle. Seeing a modern adventurer face the same starving, frozen landscape provides a haunting look at how one man cheated certain death.
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Malcolm McDonald
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Tim Jarvis, William McInnes, John Stoukalo, Jason Stewart
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Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica
You can watch Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica (2008) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
Director
Malcolm McDonald
Cast
Tim Jarvis, William McInnes, John Stoukalo, Jason Stewart
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Watch Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica on Kanopy with a participating library card. Availability last verified September 16, 2026.