Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 1 (History Channel)

Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 1 (History Channel)
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Actor: Ice Road Truckers
Director: n/a
Brand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 470 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO

DVD Reviews of Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 1 (History Channel)

DVD Review: Quite interesting, but repetitive
Summary: 4 Stars

We don't have cable, but I had often heard about this show, so when 'Season One' came out on DVD, I picked it up. It is an interesting show, but after awhile it did become a little repetitive. I know they are trying to make each episode exciting and engaging, but I would have liked perhaps a few episodes where you concentrated on maybe only two of the drivers and went much more in-depth with a specific run, instead of trying to go back and forth between the 4-5 drivers, with a little information on each of them. Still, a good show and one I enjoyed watching multiple times.

DVD Review: FILTHY LANGUAGE !!## BLEEP!! BLEEP!!! BLEEP!!!....
Summary: 1 Stars

The bleeped out language in this DVD is disgusting and completely unnecessary. I can't believe this was accepted and aired on the History Channel. Poor choice on their part, big time! If the language would have been excluded all together, instead of bleeped out, the producers of this series and the History Channel undoubtedly would have been able to attract a greater viewing audience. Thumbs down for this one. I definitely wouldn't show this to my kids!
:(

DVD Review: Ice Road Truckers
Summary: 5 Stars

Ordered this for my grandson to give his father. He says it is great
Came fast in great shape

DVD Review: Overdone
Summary: 2 Stars

I was very excited about this series when I ordered them. Unfortuntaly the series is not very documentary, but more of a fictional dramatized character. It seems the producers have tried to dramatize something that is just not there. Big, Spectacular, Over-dramatized are all words that fit the series. All the episodes would have made ONE single good two-hour show.

DVD Review: Poorly executed clone of Deadliest Catch
Summary: 2 Stars

I had high expectations for this series, but after watching it my primary reaction is one of disappointment. This would have been a terrific two-hour special. But the producers had a lot of time to fill, and fill they did...with repetitive, monotonous footage, weak story lines, artificial and manipulative "drama", and lots of time spent repeating the same material over...and over...and over.

I don't think I've ever seen a series that was so obviously stretched to fill the available time. The latter episodes were unwatchable thanks to the endless use of tired footage and shameless rehashing of earlier material.

While Deadliest Catch is immensely watchable and thrilling to the end, this series falls far short of the high bar set by that program.

Description of Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 1 (History Channel)

It s one of the most perilous roads in the world, a strip of ice built on frozen lakes that connects remote billion-dollar mining outposts in northern Canada with civilization 350 miles away. In the brief two months a year that the road is passable, ten thousand loads, some weighing as much as twenty-two tons, will travel over the highway in an urgent race to provide critical supplies to the camps before the ice melts.

ICE ROAD TRUCKERS follows the competition and camaraderie of six truckers over a season on the ice road, as they brave white-outs, thin ice, and the deadly cold to perform one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. From the construction of this massive frozen highway and the preparation of the truck fleet, to the risky final days when the melting highway grows dangerously unreliable, THE HISTORY CHANNEL takes viewers on a thrilling, adrenaline-pumping ride.

DVD Features: Ice Road Truckers episode of Dangerous Missions; 5 Featurettes: Meet the Truckers , Overcoming the Challenges , Perils of the Ice Road , Behind-The-Scenes , The Countdown

Wages of Fear has nothing on Ice Road Truckers. Transporting unstable nitroglycerine is Driving Miss Daisy compared to the sanity and death-defying challenges facing these drivers who face great rewards but even greater dangers. Where these guys are going, there are no roads, except for about two months when the lakes freeze solid enough to allow the transport of literally tons of essential supplies to Canada's remote diamond mines as far as 350 miles away near the Arctic Circle. The goal is to deliver 10,000 loads in 60 days. The truckers call it the "dash for the cash." Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy ride.

Ice Road Truckers is one of the most harrowing of the "dirty jobs" sub-genre of reality TV. This History Channel series mines a little extra drama by playing up the competition between the drivers to see who can make the most runs. The series' most compelling personality is Hugh, a 21-season veteran known as "the Polar Bear," who suffers what another driver calls "a bad luck year." Hugh is the kind of guy who will blow poisonous methyl hydrate into his own suspect transmission. Among those trucking for him are Alex, the 25-year "marathon man" with 11 kids), 21-year-old TJ, and Drew, a 35-year-old "newbie." But the conditions under which these "titans of the ice" operate is all the drama this series needs. Suffice to say, there are up to 800 drivers when the season begins. By the spring thaw, there are only about 125 remaining. Consider: Truck breakdowns and equipment failures can leave truckers stranded in the middle of nowhere in 40-below temperatures. Blinding snowstorms can reduce visibility to zero. Speeding can cause waves that blow out the ice. A shout-out to the camera crew who faced these dangers with the truckers and captured nerve-wracking footage of the trucks making their treacherous way over heaving, cracking ice, and behemoth 18-wheel rigs plummeting through the broken ice to the lake's bottom. --Donald Liebenson

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