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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
EAN: 0733961776102
Label: A&E HOME VIDEO
Manufacturer: A&E HOME VIDEO
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: A&E HOME VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Running Time: 470 minutes
Sales Rank: 2824
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
Theatrical Release Date: June 17, 2007
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Product Description:
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
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Ice Road Truckers
Ordered this for my grandson to give his father.He says it is great
Came fast in great shape
Rating:  - Overdone
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.
Rating: - Poorly executed clone of Deadliest Catch
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Ice Road Truckers
We'd only ever seen the first episode her in Australia, but I wanted to see them all. So I placed an overseas order, with Amazon. The full First Series arrive very quickly, considering the distance to the "Down Under" and in perfect condition, as well. The rest of this first series, was fantastic and I have watch some of them, over and over again!!! They are of a very similar scarey action, as was Deadliest Catch, of which I also bought the full series, from Amazon. The very LARGE numbers "beeps" ... Read More
Rating:  - Decent Reality TV
I actually purchased this DVD after viewing a couple of episodes of the second season.The first season was entertaining and gave an accurate portrayal of life in the artic circle.I can see this series only running for maybe two or three seasons before it is discontinued though due to the repeatative theme of the show (hauling loads of cargo across the ice).If I could offer one suggestion, that would be for an uncensored version of the DVD without the profanity bleeps.
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