11 Best Nature Documentaries on Netflix Streaming

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6. Chasing Ice

Site Score: 7, IMDb Score 2; Overall Score: 9 points
Directed by Jeff Orlowski
Year: 2012

Originally a climate change skeptic, National Geography photographer James Balog decided to travel north and see for himself is there any truth in global warming theories. Arriving in Greenland and witnessing the rate of glaciers melting quickly convinced him that climate change is real and it is happening. With his team, he set up his equipment in order to capture the receding ice in what they called Extreme Ice Survey. Among other things, they managed to film a 75-minute long calving of Jakobshavn Glacier, the longest such event ever to be captured on film. It would be very hard to remain climate change skeptic after seeing that on film, let alone in person.

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