Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Everest and Scott of the Antarctic.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Everest from 2015, and Scott of the Antarctic from 1948.
Everest is a 2015 biographical survival adventure film directed and produced by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy.
It stars an ensemble cast of Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Martin Henderson and Emily Watson.
It is based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, and focuses on the survival attempts of two expedition groups, one led by Rob Hall (Clarke) and the other by Scott Fischer (Gyllenhaal).
The film opened the 72nd Venice International Film Festival on 2 September, 2015, and released theatrically on 18 September, 2015.
It was first released in IMAX 3D on 11 September, 2015, in the UK and in IMAX 3D, RealD 3D, and 2D internationally, and exclusively in IMAX 3D, 19 September, 2015 as a limited release in the United States and Canada, and along 36 other countries.
It began a wide release in the United States on 25 September, 2015.
The film was a commercial success—it grossed $203 million worldwide over a $55 million budget and received positive reviews from critics.
Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur.
Written by: William Nicholson, and Simon Beaufoy.
Produced by: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Baltasar Kormákur , Nicky Kentish Barnes , Tyler Thompson , and Brian Oliver.
Starring: Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Cinematography: Salvatore Totino.
Edited by: Mick Audsley.
Music by: Dario Marianelli.
Production Companies: Cross Creek Pictures, Walden Media, and Working Title Films.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures.
Release dates: 2 September 2015 (Venice) , and 18 September 2015 (United States).
File Length: 121 minutes.
Countries: United Kingdom , and United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $55 million.
Box office: $203.4 million.
Scott of the Antarctic is a 1948 British adventure film starring John Mills as Robert Falcon Scott in his ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole.
The film more or less faithfully recreates the events that befell the Terra Nova Expedition in 1912.
The film was directed by Charles Frend from a screenplay by Ivor Montagu and Walter Meade with "additional dialogue" by the novelist Mary Hayley Bell (Mills' wife).
The film score was by Ralph Vaughan Williams, who reworked elements of it into his 1952 Sinfonia Antarctica.
The supporting cast included James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Barry Letts and Christopher Lee.
Much of the film was shot in Technicolor at Ealing Studios in London.
Landscape and glacier exteriors from the Swiss Alps, Norway, and pre-war stock footage of Graham Land were used but no actual scenes were done in Antarctica.
Directed by: Charles Frend.
Written by: Walter Meade, Ivor Montagu, and Mary Hayley Bell.
Produced by: Michael Balcon.
Starring: John Mills, James Robertson Justice, and Barry Letts.
Cinematography: Osmond Borradaile, Jack Cardiff, and Geoffrey Unsworth. Edited by: Peter Tanner.
Music by: Ralph Vaughan Williams (as Vaughan Williams).
Colour process: Technicolor.
Production Company: Ealing Studios.
Distributed by: General Film Distributors (UK).
Release date: 29 November 1948 (UK).
File Length: 105 minutes.
Country: United Kingdom.
Language: English.
Budget: £3.37 million.
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