Chasing Ice (2012)

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Action Biography Documentary

7.8 / 10

'National Geographic' photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In 'Chasing Ice,' we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. Balog's hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Traveling with a young team of adventurers by helicopter, canoe and dog sled across three continents, Balog risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story in human history. As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramp up around the world, 'Chasing Ice' depicts a heroic photojournalist on a mission to gather evidence and deliver hope to our carbon-powered planet

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Dingle Barry

This is a dreadful documentary - not because I'm anti-global warming, but because all of the dialoging is rehearsed. Even when they are out in the elements supposedly having a conversation with one another it's a rehearsed conversation. - @Saturday, January 13, 2018 8:43 AM

Dingle Barry

I have no agenda about global warming either way, but about 10 minutes in the dude supposedly goes to a place that apparently has a glacier, but most the area looks like snow hilly area after winter. What's really laughable is they go back to it 6 months later and virtually all the snow is melted, the same way that snow does in most areas during it's summer/warmer months. I grew up around the Sierra Mountains so I've seen 60+ foot deep snow banks melt down to nothing in the summer months many times and the fact that this happened 6 months after they were there seems to be par for the fucking course. Common give us something we could work with... if you weren't skeptical about global warming going into this documentary, you should be when it's over... what a bunch of silly shit! - @Saturday, January 13, 2018 7:56 AM

adawiyah mansor

Please make sure trump watch this..he may lazy to read..so make him watch this..you can never fired the earth..cause the earth will fired all of us..#wakeupcall - @Monday, January 1, 2018 2:41 AM

Habib Ikram

fake - @Saturday, September 30, 2017 4:58 PM

Olga Paraiso

Graciasssssss - @Thursday, September 14, 2017 8:25 AM

Crawlspace Dweller Matt

I love this docu. - @Tuesday, August 1, 2017 2:34 AM

Raja Amin

am I the only the one that not understand what exactly is going on ? 😅 - @Tuesday, June 20, 2017 3:27 AM

miss p

Don´t compare to just the last hundred Years. Look back 500 Years, 10.000 Years and so on... You will find out, that the Climate was always Changing throughout the Whole Life of the Earth. There were several Times, where the Earth was completely Iced, than the Opposite, no Ice and High Temperatures. Long before Human Being. Please stop ignoring Facts. Please stop comparing Temperatures and Ice-Levels with subjective selected Years or Timeframes. Don´t call Co2-Fairytales the Truth, there´s Zero Evidence, they´re just Science-Assumptions. We can´t even Measure the Co2 Concentration in the Athmosphere, they´re just Calculations out of Assumptions! We don´t need Lies to Care about Air-Quality, save Ressources and keep the Planet (and the Outer Space) as clean and peaceful as possible. We don´t need Lies for not using Nuclear Reactors nor Nuclear Weapons, or any other Harmful Substances. Don´t fear People, but enlighten! - @Friday, April 7, 2017 10:57 PM

SEOArkonte - Misterios Resueltos

En cuanto pueda, tengo que verme el documental completo - @Thursday, February 23, 2017 6:12 PM

Nanou chatnoir

Je viens juste de regarder le documentaire c'est beau et surtout effrayant le climat change bien plus vite que nous le pensons, pourquoi ne pas l'avoir cru bien plus tôt ??? - @Tuesday, January 3, 2017 9:13 PM

Outland

4 years old... How did I miss this? - @Wednesday, December 21, 2016 11:41 AM

Katherine

One of my favorite documentaries. A MUST SEE. Changes how you see climate change, and is hauntingly beautiful.. - @Saturday, November 26, 2016 12:21 AM

The-Toy-Guy

If you really care about the climate stop sticking crap in the ground and doing experiments. Go and pick up some rubbish instead that might be a start - @Tuesday, November 15, 2016 3:42 AM

gaston

James balog for president - @Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:41 PM

Camil .1118

COOL😮 - @Saturday, January 23, 2016 6:36 PM

qualityasdf

Fucking morons. Ice caps are INCREASING and Polar Bears are breeding so much we'll start needing to bash them like seals - @Monday, January 11, 2016 3:56 AM

kathleen nye

Wow! - @Sunday, January 3, 2016 4:54 PM

Deepak Lal

Many Republicans and longtime back even Papa Bush and Junior Bush said that TOO.:) - @Saturday, November 14, 2015 7:14 PM

Stef Hilhorst

Amazing, Shoking, the thrut is this movie. Great work. - @Saturday, October 31, 2015 5:25 PM

Héloïse Schuhmacher

What is the name of the song that starts at 1:15 ? - @Monday, September 14, 2015 3:20 PM

OnePlanet

Please humanity, please. Get your act together before the beautiful green planet turns into a dirt ball. - @Monday, September 7, 2015 4:40 AM

ulissitos

Bush said there's no global warming happening, so is not happening! - @Wednesday, August 19, 2015 6:34 PM

Suzie Zimmerli

Amuse see documentary - @Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:16 AM

Stevo Boe

Some elementary thermodynamics: The temperature of the liquid water will not increase until the solid ice in contact with it has completely melted. To completely melt ice at 0 °C into water at 0 °C, one must add roughly 80 times the thermal energy as is required to increase the temperature of the same mass of liquid water by one degree Celsius. Basically, in laymen terms, the heat being added to the system (Earth) is changing the phase of water from solid to liquid and we won't see a drastic global temperature rise until a complete phase change has occurred, ie. the ice needs to completely melt first. - @Wednesday, March 18, 2015 3:56 AM

Runnymede85

1:20 – He's shooting video with a Nikon DLSR? No wonder it's not working - @Sunday, March 8, 2015 3:05 AM

CahillandDelene

These 103 dislike folks watch Faux News. Amazing film. - @Monday, March 2, 2015 7:22 AM

badurski roffli

maybe the earth needs to cool itself, and is using the ice to do so. is that good or bad ? - @Sunday, March 1, 2015 2:07 PM

Jean Durocher

There are a million different stories, then there is the truth you can check. page 78 of the Present. Wanna know the whole....TRUTH ? Google Truth Contest - @Thursday, February 26, 2015 3:30 AM

Arlene B

People need to see this. How can anyone outside of Fox viewers, not understand that climate change is going on and is going to totally change our entire civilization within the next few years, and NOT to the good. - @Wednesday, February 25, 2015 11:07 PM

2000jago

Just let me watch it already, stop insisting I see it on the big screen.... - @Tuesday, February 3, 2015 12:44 PM

Susan Behring

This is amazing. I think more people need to see this. - @Saturday, January 24, 2015 4:12 PM

Snap Dragon

the change is because the sun is in this end of life and he become more and more big !! the end of earth is near and you can make nothing !!! the scientist lies to you because you stupid and you panic for nothing and we want to have peace for the little rest of the time we can have on this planet !! so now enjoy !! - @Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:31 PM

Dave R

Has a bit of a political slant. - @Tuesday, October 14, 2014 4:11 PM

Mary L

This is so stupid....Just to let you know how manipulated people have become and will believe anything someone tells them - @Monday, October 13, 2014 5:18 AM

smitty195

Ugh......"he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet". Well of course, the earth is constantly changing. CHANGE IS NORMAL. So many people are brainwashed by this global warming hoax. It's so sad. - @Saturday, October 11, 2014 1:18 AM

Thanael Christian

Is it possible that maybe this has happened before and more recently then what most people think? And without the effects of cars and other things. Maybe it was all those cows farting? I get that it is important to take care of this earth that we have been given stewardship over but it would appear that these things happen, for the most part, with or without our intervention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/mapas_pirireis/esp_mapaspirireis05.htm#The Maps of Antarctica - @Friday, October 10, 2014 6:12 PM

Daniel Blais

+Mike Corey This looks amazing - @Friday, October 10, 2014 2:04 PM

Lynne Elliott

Scary! - @Friday, October 10, 2014 8:58 AM

jamiedraig

Outstanding! - @Thursday, October 2, 2014 11:18 PM

Jim Cooper

Fantastic, came from his website not knowing he was the photographer that made this film, that I had watched twice before - @Saturday, September 27, 2014 3:24 AM

Eduardo Carrasco

WTF - @Sunday, August 31, 2014 4:34 PM

miverick badon

James Balog looks like Bruce Dickinson of iron maiden. - @Monday, August 25, 2014 1:56 PM

Round

3 years huh, hmm - @Monday, June 16, 2014 8:08 AM

Vida De Paz

Wow… The documentary Chasing Ice is something else! I remember my own experience when being at the North Pole. Wow. La documental Chasing Ice es fuera de serie ! Me recuerda mi experiencia cuando estuve en el Polo Norte. - @Saturday, June 7, 2014 1:48 PM

Ramona McKean

Wow! - @Tuesday, May 27, 2014 5:44 PM

Carol Kilby

so important, upsetting, and inspiring. How far will we go to alert our circles to the reality of homo-made climate change! - @Monday, April 21, 2014 10:00 PM

Sue Dias

Looks amazing! I have to watch the whole show now! - @Thursday, March 27, 2014 3:50 AM

MarionInstituteTV

The haunting relevance of this film is as unsettling as it is beautiful. - @Monday, March 17, 2014 7:26 PM

MrScooter707

"Acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change and a cynic about the nature of academic research. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet." Of course the planet is changing. It has been changing forever. However, to try and say that this photographer has captured evidence of anthropogenic climate change is ridiculous. Correlation does not equal causation. Furthermore, if man WERE causing "global warming", those researchers wouldn't have had to falsify evidence to get their desired result. Naughty, naughty "scientists". - @Saturday, March 15, 2014 7:57 PM

Ash Green

"This is the memory of the landscape...that landscape is gone. It may never be seen again in the history of civilization. And it is stored right here." That quote is so powerful. - @Thursday, March 13, 2014 5:17 AM