Chasing Ice
The National Geographic photographer James Balog spend years in Greenland, Iceland and Alaska in order to capture pictures of ice crashing off the glacier. His project prove the effect of global warming to the glacier and won Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film.
21 September 1941, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
15 April 1957, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
30 August 1935, Ocean Township, New Jersey, USA
April 15, 1957 in Dubuque, Iowa, USA
18 February 1984, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
April 25, 2013
Less a didactic 'message-movie' than a study of one man's steely determination, the debut helmer directs with a sure hand and no-frills aesthetic.
December 07, 2012
The most important documentary of the year.
November 23, 2012
The movie might have given us a bit less of Balog and a bit more of the startling sequences he produced.
April 19, 2013
Beautiful, affecting documentary about glacier retreat.
April 07, 2015
While their persistence is remarkable, it is rewarded by the breathtaking yet heartbreaking images obtained. In every location, they find irrefutable evidence of the dramatic degradation of the planet's glaciers.
December 11, 2012
Still an eco-sceptic? Clap your eyes on this lot. Awe-inspiring, terrifying, transcendently beautiful, and absolutely weighted with significance for the future of the planet.
December 06, 2012
"Chasing Ice" is a grand adventure, a visual amazement and a powerful warning.
May 22, 2013
As a documentary, it offers most of its likely viewers grim confirmation of what they already know, rather than the thrill of discovery.
February 07, 2013
While visually and emotionally stunning, "Chasing Ice" raises almost as many questions as it answers.
November 30, 2012
The rapid disappearance of ice mountains, filmed over a period of years, is compressed through time-lapse technology into minutes and seconds. The speeded-up effect is harrowing and also, disturbingly, eerily beautiful.
February 15, 2013
If seeing equals believing, then this film's documentation ought to sway the world. But daredevil heroes and sexy screen goddesses probably help the medicine go down.
December 05, 2012
If you're looking for eye-popping evidence that the world's glaciers are melting, don't miss the small-scale but spectacular documentary, Chasing Ice.
