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Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 1 (History Channel) | 
 enlarge | Director: N/a
Actor: Ice Road Truckers
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 10214
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 470
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: AAED77610D
UPC: 733961776102
EAN: 0733961776102
ASIN: B000UP8822
Theatrical Release Date: June 17, 2007
Release Date: November 20, 2007
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Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 11/20/2007
Amazon.com
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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 FILTHY LANGUAGE !!## BLEEP!! BLEEP!!! BLEEP!!!.... December 27, 2008
The bleeped out language in this DVD is disgusting and completely unnecessary. I can't believe this was accepted and aired on the History Channel. Poor choice on their part, big time! If the language would have been excluded all together, instead of bleeped out, the producers of this series and the History Channel undoubtedly would have been able to attract a greater viewing audience. Thumbs down for this one. I definitely wouldn't show this to my kids!
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 Ice Road Truckers October 30, 2008
Ordered this for my grandson to give his father. He says it is great
Came fast in great shape
 Overdone October 21, 2008
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.
Poorly executed clone of Deadliest Catch September 9, 2008
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 time. The latter episodes were unwatchable thanks to the endless use of tired footage and shameless rehashing of earlier material.
While Deadliest Catch is immensely watchable and thrilling to the end, this series falls far short of the high bar set by that program.
Ice Road Truckers August 28, 2008
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" in the Ice Road Truckers, does take away the true sense of the stories, so we just have to endure that, we guess!!!! We did have to purchase a later brand of DVD Player, to be able to play the Ice Road Truckers, because of being in a different Zone, but we had to watch them, somehow and this was a small price to pay. And now, we'll be able to play ALL DVDs, that we order from Amazon!!! So there you have it, folks!!!!!!
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