History Film / EightBelow

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Old Jack and Dewey die but the remaining six dogs live long enough to be rescued by Jerry Shepherd]]

** [[spoiler: Played Straight at the end. When the dogs are all rescued, Max refuses to leave at first. He leads Shepherd back to Maya (who is weak but still alive), refusing to abandon her.]]

* JumpScare: When Max investigates the carcass of a dead Orca, a leopard seal jumps ''right out of the body'', and into the cameras face. Not the most pleasant thing to see up close and personal.

** [[spoiler: Played Straight at the end. When the dogs are all rescued, Max refuses to leave at first, leading Shepherd back to Maya who is weak, but still alive, refusing to abandon her.]]
* RetIrony: [[spoiler:Old Jack]]

* TeamMom: With the dogs, it seems Maya is this.

* BabyOfTheBunch: Max is the newest edition to the team, but Shepherd believes that he's got something special.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Old Jack. While the others all have the strength to break free while chasing a flock of gulls, Jack is too hold to follow and chooses to stay and the base and die in peace.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Old Jack and Dewey die but the remaining six dogs live long enough to be rescued by Jack Shepard]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Maya]] is thought to be dead during her reunion with Shepard and Shadow. Luckily, it turns out she was just sleeping.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[Spoiler: Old Jack. While the others all have the strength to break free while chasing a flock of gulls, Jack is too hold to follow and chooses to stay and the base and die in peace.]]
* JumpScare: When one of the dogs investigates the carcass of a dead Orca, a leopard seal jumps ''right out of the body'', and into the cameras face. Not the most pleasant thing to see up close and personal.
* TheLeader: Maya is initially established as the alpha of the sled team. However, after she gets crippled by a leopard seal.

* AnyoneCanDie: {{Downplayed}}, [[spoiler: only two of the eight dogs perished through out the film.]]

* SledDogsThroughTheSnow: The team of sled dogs composed of two Alaskan Malamutes, Buck and Shadow, and six Siberian Huskies, Max, Maya, Truman, Dewey, Shorty, and Old Jack. They were forced to be left behind and had to survive the Antarctic.

DisneyDeath: Maya is thought to be dead during her reunion with Shepard and Shadow. Luckily, it turns out she was just sleeping.

The movie is mostly set in the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis [=McClaren=] (Creator/BruceGreenwood), the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd (Creator/Paul Walker) has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission while his dogs fight for survival.

''Eight Below is a 2006 American adventure drama film directed by Frank Marshall and distributed by Disney.

A movie that billed Creator/PaulWalker as the star, but ultimately was stolen by the dogs in the film.

The movie is mostly set in the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis [=McClaren=] (Creator/BruceGreenwood), the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd (Paul Walker) has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission while his dogs fight for survival.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Old Jack and Maya were dead but the remaining six dogs live long enough to be rescued by Jack Shepard]]

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The true story behind this film was the 1958 Japanese scientific expedition to the South Pole. When the crew had to leave due to extreme weather conditions, they left their fifteen Sakhalin huskies behind thinking that they would come back and get them. However, they found that they couldn't due to fuel shortage and didn't return for a year. When they did, they were greeted by two dogs who had managed to survive. Not quite as cheery an ending as Disney would like, but still pretty remarkable considering that huskies can only survive for about a month in that kind of environment.

Both this film and the 1983 film ''Antarctica'' were loosely based on the same real-life events.

Basically set in the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis [=McClaren=] (Creator/BruceGreenwood), the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd (Paul Walker) has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission while his dogs fight for survival.

* [[AnyoneCanDie Any Dogs Can Die]]: {{Downplayed}}, [[spoiler: only two of the eight dogs perished through out the film.]]

* [[AnyoneCanDie Any Dogs Can Die]]: {{Downplayed}}, [[spoiler: Only two of the eight dogs perished through out the film.]]

A movie that billed Paul Walker as the star, but ultimately was stolen by the dogs in the film.

Basically set in the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis [=McClaren=] (BruceGreenwood), the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd (Paul Walker) has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission while his dogs fight for survival.

Based loosely on a true story.

* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Paul Walker basically admitted while promoting one of his movies, ''Running Scared'' (rated R), that he made ''Eight Below'' so he could take his daughter, nieces and nephews to a movie premiere.

* JumpScare: When one of the dogs investigates the carcass of a dead Orca, a seal jumps ''right out of the body'', and into the cameras face. Not the most pleasant thing to see up close and personal.

* FiveManBand: the dogs
** TheLeader: Maya
** TheLancer: Max
** TheBigGuy: Buck
** TheChick: Old Jack