Director: Charlotte Purdy
Running Time: 67 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: January 12th 2015 (UK)
Many of the best documentaries are based around incredible stories that few people know much about, and that’s certainly true here. The docudrama Erebus: Into The Unknown heads back to 1979, when an airplane taking 257 passengers on a sightseeing tour of Antarctica mysteriously crashed into the remote and frozen Mount Erebus.
In order to recover the victims, 11 New Zealand police officers – none of whom had much experience with snow or survival situations – were sent to Antarctica and onto Erebus, to deal with the horrific job of finding, cataloguing and recovering the now totally frozen bodies. [Read more…]