Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
- climate change
- global warming
- glacier
- environment
- field research
- melting glacier
- cryosphere
- polar ice cap
- environmental change
The bill
James Balog
Self - Photographer
Svavar Jonatansson
Self - Photo Assistant
Adam LeWinter
Self - EIS Engineer

Louie Psihoyos
Self - Photographer & Oscar Winning Filmmaker
- Kitty Boone — Self - The Aspen Institute
- Sylvia Earle — Self - National Geographic Explorer
- Dennis Dimick — Self - National Geographic Editor
- Jason Box — Self - Climatologist, Ohio State University
- Tad Pfeffer — Self - Glaciologist, University of Colorado
- Suzanne Balog — Self - James's Wife
- Jeff Orlowski — Self - EIS Videographer
- Directed
- Jeff Orlowski
- Written
- Mark Monroe
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 173 ratings
- Studio
- Diamond Docs, Exposure Labs, Doc Society
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.









