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Endurance Season 13 Episode 11 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Mountain Men,” titled “Endurance,” promises to be an intense and gripping experience for fans of the show. Set against the backdrop of the harsh Alaskan wilderness, this episode will showcase the resilience and determination of the mountain men as they face extreme challenges in their quest for survival.

Lauro takes center stage as he confronts the brutal -40° weather on the Iditarod Trail. With a broken sled and exhausted dogs, he must navigate the frozen Yukon River. This segment highlights not only the physical demands of the journey but also the mental strength required to push through such harsh conditions. Lauro’s struggle will resonate with anyone who has faced adversity in their own life.

Meanwhile, Bret and Ivy are busy hauling beaver to wrap up their season. Their hard work and dedication reflect...

The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship sink and to spend the next 500 days trying to survive and get back to civilization, sounds like something you read about in history books — or maybe a storybook. It’s a saga so removed from our time, so rooted in a pre-technological world, that the idea that you could actually see it as it’s happening seems wondrous.

Yet Shackleton, who had an early 20th-century showman’s flair for publicity, took a filmmaker along with him as part of the crew — the photographer and cinematographer Frank Hurley, who shot the whole journey. So even as Shackleton and his men were stranded at the bottom of the earth, trapped in an endless stretching expanse of pack ice, their daily routines, their research,...

Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan’s landmark epic Interstellar is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Paramount Pictures is marking the occasion with a 10th Anniversary IMAX exclusive limited engagement on December 6, 2024, with tickets going on sale on November 7.

In addition to the IMAX rerelease, a Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD set will arrive on December 10, 2024.

A transcendent sci-fi drama, Interstellar became a cultural phenomenon, thrilling audiences and critics with its exploration of humanity’s future. Acclaimed for its scientific accuracy, the movie captured viewers’ imaginations, earning over $730 million worldwide and five Oscar nominations, with a win for Best Visual Effects.

The film features an extraordinary cast, including Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, John Lithgow, Michael Caine, Timothée Chalamet, Ellen Burstyn, Bill Irwin, Wes Bentley, David Oyelowo, Casey Affleck, and more.

In the film, a team of pioneers undertakes the most important mission in human history...

Documentary filmmaker George Butler, best known for his 1977 film Pumping Iron that raised Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood prominence, died of pneumonia Oct. 21 at home in New Hampshire. He was 78 and his death was confirmed by his son, Desmond Butler, a Washington Post reporter.

Butler directed more than 10 films during his four-decade career. He co-directed Pumping Iron with Robert Fiore.

The son of a British Army officer, he spent his childhood in Somalia and Jamaica.

His final project, Tiger Tiger, is scheduled for next year. The film follows a big cat conservationist into the wilds of India and Bangladesh.

Butler had covered bodybuilding as a journalist in the 1970s, collaborating on a book on the subject before raising funds for the film. The film exponentially raised the profile of Schwarzenegger, who had scored just a few small TV and film roles at the time. The film depicted his training at Gold’s Gym in Venice,...

Tucked away in a New York Times article about Lil Peep, a rapper who died of an accidental overdose at 21 last November, is a surprising parenthetical about the documentary being made about him: “Terrence Malick, a friend of the Womack family, is an executive producer.” The Womacks are the family of Lil Peep, real name Gustav Ahr, whereas Malick is the Oscar-nominated, Palme d’Or–winning director of films like “The Tree of Life” and “Days of Heaven” — not necessarily who you’d expect to be involved with a nonfiction account of a troubled rapper’s life and death.

It makes its own kind of sense, however, considering that Malick’s most recent film is the music-heavy “Song to Song” and he’s made a habit of doing the unexpected throughout his singular career; most recently, he made a commercial for the new Google Pixel 3 phone. No other information about...

Terrence Malick makes us believe in magic when we know it doesn't exist. He has created his own legend as an unreachable recluse

He may be the only film-maker working now to whom the word "magical" can be applied, yet in nearly 30 years he has directed just five films. He has a degree in philosophy from Harvard; he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; he has published a translation of Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes. He has a reputation as a recluse, whereas in reality he is a charming, amiable fellow happy to talk about a wide range of topics – but not film. He came close once to doing a film of Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer, and in 1999 he did produce a picture about the great Ethiopian runner, Haile Gebrselassie, called Endurance. Then a year later he produced another documentary, The Endurance, about the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

NEW YORK -- After six years, indie distributor Cowboy Pictures will ride into the sunset, according to the company's president, John Vanco. Vanco will announce his plans in the coming weeks. Cowboy was founded in 1997, under the moniker Cowboy Booking, by Vanco and Noah Cowan. Cowan exited his co-president post last year. The unit released more than 40 films theatrically, including the documentaries The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition and the Oscar-nominated Promises and the rock docus I Am Trying to Break Your Heart and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The company also rolled out David Gordon Green's George Washington, James Toback's Harvard Man and Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar.