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The great adventure / Glacialis Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada and Gedeon Programmes ; a film by Jean Lemire ; co-producers, Éric Michel [and 3 others] ; script and direction, Jean Lemire and Thierry Piantanida ; a Canada-France co-production.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Arctic mission.
- Arctic mission
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Arctic regions.
- Climatic changes.
- Habitat (Ecology)--Arctic regions--Canada.
- Habitat (Ecology).
- Climatology.
- Environmental conditions.
- Arctic Regions.
- Canada.
- Global warming.
- Sea ice--Arctic regions.
- Sea ice.
- Ethnoecology--Arctic regions.
- Ethnoecology.
- Arctic regions--Environmental conditions.
- Arctic regions.
- Arctic regions--Climate.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Environmental films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (90 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2018]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- In The Great Adventure, filmmaker Jean Lemire and his crew undertake a five-month, 21,000-kilometre voyage to record the impact of global warming on the Arctic. We watch as the crew navigate a three-masted sailing ship through the legendary Northwest Passage - a treacherous, ice-choked route that has captured the imaginations of great explorers for centuries. This compelling scientific and personal adventure is set against the backdrop of breathtaking northern scenery. Survival is a daily struggle in the Far North, and the Sedna IV 's crew face unusually cold weather that makes navigation exceptionally perilous. The Great Adventure unveils the beauty of this region and makes us keenly aware that climate change is seriously jeopardizing a fragile ecosystem.
- Participant:
- Narration, David Suzuki, Jean Lemire.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Martin Leclerc ; picture editing, Frédéric Lossignol, Alain Belhumeur ; original music, Hervé Postic.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Glacialis Productions/National Film Board of Canada/Gedeon Programmes, ©2003; previously released in 2004.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 18, 2018).
- Publisher Number:
- nf-great Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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