

Chasing Ice
Art meets science.
When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $1.3M
- Language
- English
- climate change
- global warming
- glacier
- environment
- field research
- melting glacier
- cryosphere
- polar ice cap
- environmental change
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance23 Jan 2012
- TheatricalPG-139 Nov 2012
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A26 Nov 2012
TaiwanTW
- Theatrical1 Oct 2012
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Chasing Ice was released on 1 October 2012.
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talisencrw
4/7/2016
I first saw this at my city's International Film Festival, then later thankfully I was able to watch it with my son, who was 9 at the time, when at a friend's place for one of the big 3 holidays, it was on Netflix. Brilliantly conceived and carried out, over a long stretch of time, by the filmmakers, it led to a fine father-son discussion about the environment, its importance, what is wrong with it and what can be do…
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