Antarctica: Ice and Sky (2017)
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Antarctica: Ice and Sky (2017)

Genre
Documentary
Release Date
January 20, 2017
Studio
Music Box Films
Official Site
http://www.musicboxfilms.com/antarctica--ice-and-sky-movies-140.php
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
January 20, 2017
MPAA Rating
-
Duration
89 minute(s)
Production Budget
-
Studio
Music Box Films
Official Site
http://www.musicboxfilms.com/antarctica--ice-and-sky-movies-140.php
Director
Luc Jacquet
Producer
Richard Grandpierre
Screenwriter
Luc Jacquet
Starring
  • Claude Lorius
  • Michel Papineschi

From Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins) comes a stirring portrait of French glaciologist, Claude Lorius, whose groundbreaking research in Antarctica gave us the first clear evidence of man-made global climate change.

Lorius discovered his destiny as a college student when he joined an expedition to Antarctica in 1955; land essentially untouched by scientific experiment.

He would go on to participate in twenty-two expeditions during his long career, facing unforgiving conditions and brutal personal challenges that were rewarded with an amazing discovery: using ice cores thousands of meters deep, tiny air bubbles suspended in the ice reveal the composition of the planet's atmosphere over nearly a million years.

Through remarkable archival footage and stunning drone cinematography, "Antarctica: Ice and Sky" is an epic tale where science and adventure meet, equal parts contemplative memoir and an ardent call to action.