Braving Alaska. Ventures to the Alaskan bush where four families are carving out lives for themselves in the tradition of the state's early settlers. Focuses on the daily challenges of surviving in an untamed wilderness. Bear island. Researcher LaVern Beier attempts to deploy National Geographic's Crittercam, presenting the opportunity to walk vicariously with brown bears in their Alaskan habitat. Alaska's last oil. Explores the push to drill for...

A remote, hockey-obsessed town populated by 633 of the most eccentric characters you'd ever want to meet, Mystery is the kind of place where nothing ever changes. But then life as they know it gets turned completely upside down when a publicity stunt brings the world-famous New York Rangers to Mystery for a game with the local team of weekend warriors and the whole town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime.

A quirky, black comedy about Paul Barnell, a nearly bankrupt Alaskan travel agent whose wife, Margaret, is on the brink of insanity. When he finds a frozen body in the dumpster behind his office, Paul thinks this is answer to his financial problems. He tries to pass the body off as his long-lost brother to collect on the insurance money. Not only does he have to worry about an unrelenting investigator and two aspiring hit men are also after him, his...

Two feuding brothers' lives are changed forever when they agree to drive a semi-truck full of gifts and supplies from California to the isolated Alaskan village of Willow Creek for their ailing father.

Showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life's most important lessons. Set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop teeming with life, their journey begins as winter comes to an end and the bears emerge from hibernation to face the bitter cold. The world outside is exciting-but risky-as the cubs' playful descent down the mountain carries with it a looming threat of avalanches.

Storm and sorrow: "The true story of one woman's (Lori Singer) journey from inexperienced climber to respected team member on the mountaintops of Russia. Co-starring Marcia Cross."--Container. Legend of the Ruby Silver: "A mother and son are hired to lend a hand at a mining site. But when the mine doesn't produce as they expected, its dangers become more and more real."--Container. Escape from Alaska: "A faulty pipeline threatens to bury the city...

Two adventurers in the Yukon quarrel over land rights and the town's sexiest saloon girl. Cherry Mallotte must choose between the honest captain and the charming-but-no-good kingpin.

See the famous Inside Passage, including the Russian architecture at Sitka. Pay a visit to the Red Dog Saloon, where hordes of gold-seekers caroused during the great Gold Rush of 1898 at Juneau. Watch a canoe race and hot-air balloon ride in Anchorage. Visit "Alaskaland" in Fairbanks and take a ride on a vintage steam-engine train, followed by an outing on board a stern-wheel steamboat. Pan for gold in Nome, then view an Inupiat tribal ceremony and...

The plight of the NY-bred Joel Fleischman, a medical intern forced to repay his scholarship by serving for four years as a doctor in the remote town of Cicely, Alaska, a tiny village filled with odd inhabitants and even stranger happenings. This title has been Repackaged.

When an airplane pilot claims he can deliver mail and supplies faster than the sled-dog team, Balto and his pals rise to the challenge. What begins as a competition ends up as a search for the airplane pilot.