Chasing Ice

2012
PG-13
1h 15m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

8.9K

YOUR RATING

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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Science & Technology Documentary Biography Documentary

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

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 9 wins & 5 nominations total

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.

Quotes
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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Featured review

8/10

Beautiful

The photography is absolutely amazing in this film! If you have any interest at all in nature photography, it is a must see. For those who criticize, I would remind you that it IS a documentary. It's SUPPOSED to be about the process and the people involved. It is one man's story of his passion for photography, the environment, and making an impact. It's not meant to be a dry science class,full of statistics and probabilities. It is simply the undeniable photographic documentation of how significantly the planet is changing from the effects of global warming. It's meant to SHOW people the beauty of our world and to illustrate that is dying right under our noses. Perhaps photographs aren't as scientifically "valid" as modeling and statistical inferences, but they ARE irrefutable and far more convincing to most of the general population.