Will Smith is making me want to visit Antarctica someday!!! #PoletoPole
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). Close-up of a bearded African American man (actor Will Smith) sitting in an Amazonian rainforest.
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). Close-up of a goateed African American man (actor Will Smith) sitting in a Buddhist monastery in Bhutan.
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). Close-up of a goateed African American man (actor Will Smith) with face paint wearing a dark green T-shirt on a South Pacific island.
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). Profile close-up from the right side of a goateed African American man (actor Will Smith) wearing a black woolly hat and a black and yellow winter coat standing on the deck of a polar exploration ship and looking out to the sea.
🌍 And while Will Smith seems genuinely sincere and earnest in his interest for exploration I must also admit that there were a couple of times when #PoleToPoleWithWillSmith felt a bit performative and just a part of an effort to cleanse his tarnished reputation. 🫢 #PoleToPole 📺
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). Angled shot from below of two people wearing helmets standing at the foot of a massive tree in an Amazonian rainforest. They are looking up at a person being hoisted up the tree by ropes.
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). View from above of two men, an African American man (actor Will Smith) wearing an orange jacket, a white T-shirt and black trousers on the left and an Asian man dressed in black on the right, lying on the ground on their backs in a Himalayan forest in Bhutan.
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). View from above of a group of South Pacific islanders wading knee deep in crystal clear sea water.
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). View from above of a polar exploration ship 'Le Commandant Charcot' pushing through pack-ice in the Arctic.
🌍 And even though #PoleToPoleWithWillSmith has got its moments and is definitely visually better this sort of a hopscotch on different parts of the globe can't beat the actual journey from #PoleToPole that Michael Palin did in the early 90s. 📺
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). Wide shot of a snow covered Antartic plateau. Two figures on skis in the middle of the shot. Snow covered mountains in the distance.
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). Close-up of a bearded African American man (actor Will Smith) wearing a helmet with a head lamp holding a plastic jar with a large arachnid in it in a dark underground cave.
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). Four people carrying poles on their shoulders are climbing up a hill (from right to left) in the Himalayas. Mountains (some of the tops are snow covered) in the background.
Frame from the documentary series 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' (2026). View from above of four people (and their shadows) walking in the bush of the Kalahari desert in Africa.
🌍 I'll admit that the only reason I started watching #PoleToPoleWithWillSmith in the first place was because the title reminded me of one of all-time favourite travel series from Michael Palin: #PoleToPole. 🤫📺
Papua New Guinea!!!!
Love that Will's visiting and communing with folks of color.
#PoleToPole
Will Smith's going to be responsible for an upswing in bookings to Equador, Bhutan, and where else?
Guess I'll soon see as, apparently, I'm binge-watching
#PoleToPole tonight, smh.
Even from the safety of home?
The sound of those bats flying?!
#PoleToPole
Not a "cave cricket!" #PoleToPole
"Venomology?!!"
WERK.
#PoleToPole
This is EXACTLY what rich folks should be doing with their wealth: jaw-dropping adventures and unbelievable side quests.
Bring drones, state-of-the-art technology, and the best experts on the planet.
Record a slew of footage for us poors.
Rinse and Repeat.
Whew. #PoleToPole
The last episode of #PoleToPole is entertaining. Jokes. High expectations. It doesn't make me sad when they didn't get what they wanted to get though. There was no guarantee that those samples were going to be immediately life changing
The kalahri episode of #PoleToPole didn't hit me as hard as the Tench one. Back to back episodes of people facing their way of life being totally extinct is heartbreaking ngl.
And all that loss for nothing really
Can we get season 2 just to get an update on the people he visited 😭
#PoleToPole
Even if Will got the people of Enusi (Tench) a steady supply of water... He can't save them from extreme weather events.
Bittersweet doesn't even cover it
#PoleToPole
Different versions of the crying emoji in stickers
Currently on episode 4 and the people of Enusi (Tench) saying they'd rather be extinct through death then through being moved and losing everything that makes them who they are made me cry. I understand it partially but what a heartbreaking set of options
#PoleToPole
Pole to Pole with Will Smith is great and brings back a side of him that we all loved...prior to "the slap"
#PoleToPole #WillSmith
One thing I've noticed about Will Smith in recent years, in his book, interviews and in #PoleToPole is the awareness of desire to be happy all the time and the push to always take a step out of his comfort zone. Subsequently, how both have helped and hurt him
Idk if one of the goals of #PoleToPole was to highlight climate change but it does a consistent job of that
"Without trees, they were 'forced' to burn millions of blubber rich penguins to keep warm."
You weren't 'forced' to burn living animals. You chose to.
#PoleToPole
A language is lost every 2 weeks?
#PoleToPole
Season 1, Episode 5
The Pacific Islands
#Hulu
Andrea from the Puglia Guys shows British TV celebrity Jane McDonald around Gallipoli on her visit to Puglia. Photo the Puglia Guys. Jane McDonald: From Pole to Pole for UK TV Channel 5 (Gallipoli features Friday 30 January 2026 8pm UK time).
The Puglia Guys team take British TV celebrity Jane McDonald for lunch in Gallipoli on her visit to Puglia. Photo the Puglia Guys. Jane McDonald: From Pole to Pole for UK TV Channel 5 (Gallipoli features Friday 30 January 2026 8pm UK time).
We hosted British TV celebrity Jane McDonald on her visit to Puglia.
UK viewers can catch Jane McDonald with the Puglia Guys in Gallipoli, on Jane McDonald: From Pole to Pole, Friday 30 January, Channel 5, 8:00pm (UK time).
#Italy #TravelAddicts #JaneMcDonald #poletopole #Travel
WOW!! "Pole To Pole" with Will Smith... everyone needs to watch this.... #poletopole #willsmith #nationalgeographic
Episode One and I’m HOOKED! #PoletoPole
This is a very interesting series. #poletopole
I hope the Ecuadorian tribe was paid / compensated for their involvement in #PoleToPole
People are going to watch, be intrigued for a few hours and then forget. Meanwhile, that is their home
#PoleToPole is such a feel good watch. Currently on episode 2
This Antarctica episode of #PoleToPole is exactly what I needed today
Will Smith traverse la planète en 100 jours pour un voyage écologique exceptionnel ! 🌍✨ #PoleToPole #AventureNature #DisneyPlus
they love to use that line like we care.
anywho, let me go back to watching #PoletoPole.
This may get me hate but I just watched the first episode of #PoleToPole say what you like about Will Smith, he has the proper awe and wonder for what he's seeing and learning doing this show. He has serious guts too, climbing a 300ft ice wall.