Chasing Ice

2012
PG-13
1h 15m

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7.7/10

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Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.

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Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glacie... Read allFollow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

8.9K

YOUR RATING

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Une vérité qui dérange

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Trivia
Holds the record for containing the biggest and longest lasting glacier calving that has ever been put to film. On May 28th, 2008, the Jakobshawn Glacier in Greenland had a calving event that lasted 75 straight minutes. It resulted in 7.4 Cubic KB of ice crashing into the ocean.

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James Balog - Photographer: If you had an abscess in your tooth, would you keep going to dentist after dentist until you found a dentist who said, "Ah, don't worry about it. Leave that rotten tooth in"? Or would you pull it out because more of the other dentists told you you had a problem? That's sort of what we're doing with climate change.

Connections
Featured in Moyers & Company: Justice, Not Politics (2012)

Soundtracks
Before My Time
Music and Lyrics by J. Ralph
Produced, Arranged, Engineered and Mixed by J. Ralph
Co-produced and Engineered by Arthur Pingrey
Protools by Arthur Pingrey
Performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell
Piano by Jay Israelson
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Legal by Alan Kress
Recorded at The Theater, New York City, January 2012 and March 2012
Special Thanks to Danny Bensi, Camilla Olson, Heidi Frederick and Alan Kress
Joshua Bell appears courtesy of Sony Classical

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8/10

compelling doc will shock you in the end

National Geographic photographer James Balog wanted to test his skepticism about climate change. With his Extreme Ice Survey, he was able to photograph undeniable changes in some glaciers. In this documentary, Balog deploys a series of time-lapse cameras to capture a long term visual record of the world's changing glaciers. The lengths to which this is accomplished is mind boggling.

It's a compelling watch and an important work. But it's the shocking final result that will amaze you. The visual of these glaciers actually melting right before your eyes will shake you to your core as it did to me.