Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "ice-dam"

1. Snowpiercer (2013)

R | 126 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris

Votes: 388,933 | Gross: $4.56M

2. Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

PG | 91 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Manny, Sid and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny is not in fact the last of the woolly mammoths.

Director: Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott

Votes: 296,573 | Gross: $195.33M

3. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Mystery of the Megaflood (2005)

TV-G | Documentary

Scientists now think that the Scablands' gorges, dry waterfall beds, scattered boulders and "potholes" were formed some 15,000 years ago when a natural ice dam holding an ancient lake burst.

Directors: Ben Fox, Joe Kennedy | Star: Richard Donat

Votes: 58

4. The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered (2017– )
Episode: The "Long Winter" of 1880/81 (2021)

15 min | Documentary, History

An early blizzard in October 1880 caught northern Midwest farmers with unharvested grain. And the snow was deep; up to the second floor windows in some places. And the snow kept falling ... See full summary »

Star: Lance Geiger

5. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: Loch Ness (2009)

TV-PG | 91 min | Documentary, History

Scotland is a ground zero for some of the most significant geologic cataclysms in Earth's history. Understanding of these titanic shifts was prompted by a mysterious lake known as Loch Ness.

Director: David Hutt | Stars: Corey Johnson, Tony Prave, John Underhill, Anjana Khatwa

Votes: 32

6. Ice Pilots NWT (2009–2014)
Episode: Ice Jam (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary

Scott has a bad fall on the icy tarmac, Chuck returns to Buffalo and stirs the pot, Joe helps out an old friend "Ice Road Trucker" Alex Debogorski.

Directors: Larry Raskin, Todd Serotiuk | Stars: Michael Daingerfield, Alex Debogorski, Joe McBryan, Mikey McBryan

7. SciShow (2012– )
Episode: The Catastrophic Flood That Triggered an Ice Age | ft. PBS Eons (2019)

6 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Eleven thousand years ago the norther hemisphere was coming out of an ice age when the warming came to an abrupt stop leading to a thousand year cold snap known as the Younger Dryas.

Star: Stefan Chin

8. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Killer Floods (2017)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary

Geologists examine extreme terrain on Iceland, the Scablands in Washington State, and submerged in the English channel to see if they were created by the same process, a sudden titanic flood.

Director: Oliver Twinch | Stars: Craig Sechler, Victor Baker, Mikaël Attal, Magnus Guðmundsson

Votes: 86