Cast and Crew: Rob Bowman (Director); Chris Carter (Producer, Screenwriter); Mark Snow (Music); Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Martin Landau, Blythe Danner
What It’s About: Taking place between seasons five and six of the television series, Scully and Mulder get involved in a government conspiracy involving aliens.
Why Watch it Today?: The climax of the film takes place near the magnetic South Pole in Antarctica, which members of Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition located on this date in 1909.
Where to Get It: Netflix (Rental Only) or your local library.
Other Choices: You could also celebrate Prohibition going into effect with Little Caesar – and I’m not talking about pizza pizza.
Antarctica! I learned from “The Stuff You Should Know” podcast that Antarctica is protected by treaty from all war. Foolish aliens didn’t know they were forcing us to contravene treaties!
The one thing I always hated about Antarctica was all the God damned aliens.