Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 1 (History Channel)
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Actor: Ice Road TruckersDirector: n/a
Brand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, 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
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- The mines of northern Canada contain billions of dollars worth of gold and diamonds, but the only way to get supplies to those mines is a treacherous 350-mile-long road across frozen lakes--which don't always stay frozen. This electrifying documentary series dives into the dangerous, sometimes glorious, potentially fatal world of Ice Road Truckers--the men who, each season, drive their trucks
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DVD Review: Ice Road Truckers Season 1
Summary: 5 Stars
we watched this series on tv and enjoyed it very much. I have grandsons who are very interested in truck driving so this is a perfect gift. DVD Review: Interesting but repetitive
Summary: 3 Stars
I enjoyed learning about "Ice Road Truckers" a job I had no idea existed. But after watching the first few trips, and the same CG footage of a truck breaking through the ice over and over again, I was pretty bored. Since the truckers ride the road alone there is none of the comraderie or humor of "The Deadliest Catch". It was ok to watch one season but by Episode 4 I was only watching it to see if they were able to transport all the orders.DVD Review: Absolutely spell binding! Couldn't stop watching it!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow! this whole series was just fantastic-I couldn't stop watching it! The men who drive the ice road are so brave and unique and interesting. You have your favorites-mine was Alex, the father of 11 children-very nice person. And, least is Hugh-mean-spirited to his employees-he is all about money and not human safety.Rick is a big-whiner, Jay is a remarkable young man and TJ,too.Very interesting. Great gift,too.DVD Review: Great series
Summary: 5 Stars
Great program. Excellent quality of products. Will be ordering more.
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.
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
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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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