I’m suggesting you go see the film Chasing Ice in spite of the fact that they started a petition on their site trying to get people to pledge to see the film. Ugh, talk about overuse of petitions. Even if you’re one of the insane people who doesn’t accept the science behind climate change (and virtually every credible scientist accepts it), you’ll find it’s a beautifully shot look at some of the most remote stretches of Earth. They even park two kids on a glacier for a month in the hope that they’ll be there to shoot a massive calving event, hilarious! The film is also a call to action of sorts, and James Balog does it in a way Al Gore was too polarizing to achieve. It’s a fantastic film shot in beautiful places. Go, see it.

The short film The Eighth Parallel takes place in the island nation of Indonesia, home to the world’s fourth largest population, yet a place where few women engage in any kind of action sports. It follows four women over the course of a year: climbers, cyclists, surfers and a motocross rider. I learned more about Indonesia in the two-minute intro of the video than I did in all of high school and college.

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In the Company of Moose is a documentary shot in Denali National Park over the course of one year. Biologist Vic VanBallenberghe has spent decades tracking and observing the animals, and his son tagged along to make this film.

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