Product Description No other filmmakers are more passionate about documenting the human drama and thrills of winter action sports and adventure than those at Warren Miller Entertainment. For over 50 years their films have raised the bar by venturing to the planet's extremes to capture the greatest athletes of our times pushing the limits of human ability. Warren Miller's THE POWER OF SNOW is their first-ever DVD collection and features the latest titles: Storm, Cold Fusion and Ride, with the classic 50th anniversary release Fifty included as a bonus DVD. Each disc features brilliant 5.1 surround sound, behind-the-scenes extras, and feature trailers. From Greenland to the South Georgia Islands to Iran and Wisconsin - these films bring you spectacular skiing and snow boarding from the top of the world and home again. Add to all this action the hottest contemporary music and personal commentary and it's easy to see why they have created a worldwide following that spans generations. .com One needn't be an extreme snow-sports enthusiast to enjoy the beauty, wit, and endlessly inventive action-cinematography of Warren Miller's films. A pioneer in sports filmmaking, Miller began his career--as we find out in this excellent, four-title boxed set--shooting 8mm footage in 1947 Sun Valley, Idaho, keeping body and soul together with ketchup soup and wild rabbits. A half-century-plus later, Miller produces, narrates, and occasionally provides a cameo in his films; three of them, included here, are travelogues set in some of the wildest, most dazzling, and even exotic places on Earth. The best of the lot, Cold Fusion, involves serious globe-hopping through four continents: Join a long, long hike through Kenya to ski what remains of a disappearing glacier, and later watch the surreal ballet of multiple "aerialists" launched high on the slopes at Colorado's Winter Park Big Air Expedition. Scale up--and snowboard down--an impossibly steep peak in Waddington, U.K., and then, believe it or not, ski Iran, a place "between dreams and awakening, of hot tea and cherry tobacco." Ride provides its own thrills, traipsing after Whistler's avalanche hunters as they launch explosives clearing landslides before landslides clear skiers. Stick around for stops in New Zealand and France, plus helicopter skiing in the North Cascades, snowboarding the bouncy trail of the Breckenridge Bumps, and cross a war zone in Russia to reach (via creaky cable cars and choppers) the top of Europe. Storm continues the fun in British Columbia's Blue River, Aspen's Roaring Fork Valley, Lake Tahoe, and Antarctica's South Georgia Island, the haunting first site of Ernest Shackleton's legendary, ill-fated voyage. Rounding out this DVD collection is the retrospective Fifty, an album of highlights (e.g., snowboarding in the Chugach Range, near the site of the Valdez crash) that takes a fun, then-and-now approach. --Tom Keogh
B**N
The Greatest ski movies on earth!
This box set rocks. If you're a skier or boarder you will love this boxed set. My favorite is Cold Fusion- Just the trailer of this movie gives me goose bumps. It make me want to get online right away and start planning my next ski vacation. My wife makes fun of me because I can watch these movies over and over and never get tired of them. If you love the snow and like watching pro-riders rip the back-country then these video's are for you. Also- being a Marine I really liked the cold weather training that Warren's team did at Bridgeport, CA with the Marines! OOOH RAAHH!!!!
M**L
Awesome !!!
Ordered this video set just in time for our annual Christmas party, here in NW Florida it gets a little chilly but with a bartender, band, a bonfire and a couple Warren Miller videos to totally ignite the event with some of the finest blizzard blasting, steep mountain trail blazing the most beautiful snow covered mountains and scenery anywhere on earth by the greatest skiers in the world makes for Awesome conversation for our annual event here in the 'sunshine'state couldn't do it without ya Warren!!
J**.
WOW! Ski films
For anyone who is really into winter skiing, Warren Miller's films rock and outshine most other ski videos or films readily available on this subject. A prior reviewer of Warren Miller films stated that you don't learn much about ski technique from his films. But I would disagree, while they are not true instructional videos, they definately show what can be done on skis, boards, or whatever snow riding gear you prefer, if you have the will and desire to go WOW. My kids started watching Miller's films and as a result of seeing what one can do with a good pair of skis or a good board they have been inspired to move from regular downhill skiing to terrain park and extreme skiing. It has been wonderful to watch their confidence increase on the slopes, and it is mainly due to the WOW impact that Warren Miller's videos have had.As far as this particular package of Warren Miller films goes, this package of videos is great, and contains terrific shots of extreme skiing and boarding; but unfortunately, it does not represent Miller's best work -- my favorite Warren Miller videos are Snowriders and Snowriders 2 -- and the films in this package include a lot of footage from those prior Warren Miller films.But for anyone looking for WOW footage of extreme skiing, go with any Warren Miller product of the last ten years, including "Storm," "Coldfusion," "Ride," and "Fifty."
C**E
Great DVD! Great Seller! Great Experience!
Sorry for the delay on writing. This seller is amazing. A+ The item was delivered in a timely manner, packaged well, and the price was right. What a deal! I would HIGHLY recommend the seller. The videos, well what can you say? 4 Warren Miller DVD's.. nothing better. Bought it just for "Fifty" but love them all!
M**I
Instructional Value limited
We watched all three DVD's and in our opinion there is no instructional value or race footage. I can't see how this type of DVD is useful to skier's. There are much better videos out there for ski coaches.
E**N
Pre-Ski Trip Hit
Always been a Warren Miller fan but this box set is perfect for covering all the amazing technical and silly aspects of the slopes that Miller is so well known for. Bought this for a pre-ski motivational get together and it was a huge hit...new yearly ski trip tradition.
J**E
More extreme skiing
I read the reviews and decided this had the some of the best Warren Miller films on it. They have to be crazy but it sure looks like fun.
C**M
Not Supposed to Be Instructional. Just good fun.
This is not supposed to be instructional! These are awesome movies to watch on Friday nights in the winter or Saturday nights after a long day of skiing. The best skiers on earth show their stuff in places we never thought existed. Worth every penny.
R**K
Five Stars
we love warren miller! this is a great box set..Music is awesome
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