A-Z of Cold in films, songs, books etc

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Anything you might associate with cold things or weather. Any word in the title can be the A-Z

A - Ice Cold in Alex. 1958 war film set in the desert starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Harry Andrews and Anthony Quayle.
 
...or... "Antifreeze" - song by Easy Life and Gus Dapperton (2022). Dapperton (real name Brendan Patrick Rice) is a US indie singer-songwriter. Clip on YouTube.
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B "BRRR" - song by German-born dance/electropop singer-songwriter , Kim Petras (2023). Clip on YouTube.
 
E EIGHT BELOW - Disney film about a man trying to get to base camp up an icy mountain and falls and breaks his leg and his sled dogs save him. Think that's the gist of it. Not sure if it's based on facts.
 
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E EIGHT BELOW - Disney film about a man trying to get to base camp up an icy mountain and falls and breaks his leg and his sled dogs save him. Think that's the gist of it. Not sure if it's based on facts.
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I've watched Eight Below a couple of times. It's based very loosely on real events. After the rescue a storm forces the humans to evacuate and the dogs are left behind for a year on their own. I enjoyed it.
 
... which is based on the novel by US author, Paul Gallico (1940) - we read it at school.
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... or... "Geological evolution of Antarctica - World and Regional Geology series, Vol. 1" (2011). Published by Cambridge Universirty Press. Academic book, edited by MRA Thomson, JA Crane & JW Thomson. (Haven't read it)
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H HILLARY's Antarctica - book by Nigel Watson (2019), about polar/Himalayan explorer Sir Edmund Hillary's contribution to Antarctic history, etc.
(Haven't read it).
 
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Alternative "I" - (for a double) ... "ICE ICE , Baby" - hip-hop single from Vanilla Ice. Reached number one in the UK singles chart in 1990.
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K King of the COLD - song by Scottish indie/ folk group Beluga Lagoon (2018). They are also involved in film production. Clip on YouTube.
 
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Or, K - The Snows of Kilimanjaro. 1952 film starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardner from a short story by Ernest hemingway. Watched it quite recently.
Alternate L - Snow Leopard. 2023 Chinese-Tibetan film that won the 2023 Tokyo Grand Prix (Best Film).
 
M MIDWINTER blues - song (2011) by Australian C&W singrer, Gene Bradley Fisk. Clip on YouTube.
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N NEUSCHNEE - 1973 electronic instrumental track by experimental German band, Neu! Title of the song means "Fresh snow". Got it on vinyl. (Saw a bloke in a local pub with a Neu! t-shirt on, earlier in the week). Clip on YouTube.
 
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Or M - The Ice Maiden. Fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Title of a number of novels and Ice Maiden is also the title of the 2024 documentary film about Lisa Blair's voyage around Antarctica.

Or N - Night Frost. 1992 novel by R. D. Wingfield. Dramatised for TV in the series A Touch of Frost.
 
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P - Ice Princess. 2005 Disney film about a girl's dream of becoming an ice skater. Stars Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall and Michelle Trachtenberg.
 
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