To The Arctic

Name: To The Arctic
Duration: 40 min

A journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home. More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Greg MacGillivray

Producer:

Shaun MacGillivray, Tom Campion, Chat Reynders

Writer:

Stephen Judson

Release Date:

Apr 20, 2012

Runtime:

40m

Synopsis

A journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.

Cast

Meryl Streep

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.4

RATINGS 0 FANS

3.4

Narrated by Meryl Streep, this documentary follows a mother polar bear and her two cubs as they navigate through their lives. The struggles arise, however as the effects of Climate Change threatens their very survival. Beautifully shot...and the little bears are…

6 Likes

Cinema_Snobb

Dec 8, 2024

Meryl Streep is a beautiful narrator, even when making me stressed about climate change

4 Likes

wigliam

Jun 13, 2025

my uncle is in this apparently. nice surprise!

3 Likes

cathartic
Feb 7, 2022

Watched with my grandparents and family as background noise while arguing about how cute but deadly polar bears are and how sad it is for them to be in such hard conditions.

3 Likes

🌀ℝ. 𝕊. ℕ𝕦𝕟𝕖𝕫🌀

Apr 1, 2022

norm of the north

2 Likes

connor stroin

Oct 11, 2024

Very nicely done documentary of polar bears life (I ❤ them) and habitat that's fastly disappearing. Thank you Meryl.

2 Likes

RZA
Dec 18, 2024

saw it on an enormous screen as a middle school kid, affected me so much that I wrote a small manifesto about climate change calling for the environmental protection and presented it to my classmates at the start of a class - my very first venture into activism.…

1 Likes

arcxi

Dec 31, 2022

I think polar bears are just really cool and we should do whatever we can to make sure they’re happy and healthy. Also would love for Meryl Streep to be the voice of my GPS.

1 Likes

brandon noah

Nov 28, 2022

boler bear

1 Likes

gab

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Based on 13 Critics

7.3

USER SCORE (4)

Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Reviews

Apr 19, 2012

To the Arctic 3-D is an impassioned plea for action on global warming, and the passion is intensified by the music.

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Apr 19, 2012

Visually stunning and narratively stunted, this IMAX documentary is the family version of 2006's An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on global warming.

Scott Bowles

USA Today

Apr 18, 2012

Filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, a specialist in gigantic-screen nature movies including The Living Sea, is up to date in his use of 70mm IMAX film, but he's stuck in the past about how to tell a story.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

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The movie has been rated as G (General Audiences), so all ages are admitted.

How long is To The Arctic (2012)?

The movie is 40min long.

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