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Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Edition
Premium eds.
Language
English
Description
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...
2) Smokin' fish
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Cory Mann is a quirky Tlingit businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau Alaska. He gets hungry for smoked salmon, nostalgic for his childhood, and decides to spend a summer smoking fish at his family's traditional fish camp. The unusual story of his life and the untold history of his people interweave with the process of preparing traditional food as he struggles to pay his bills, keep the IRS off his back, and keep his business afloat. By turns...
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hunting in Wartime profiles the incredible stories of Tlingit Native Americans from the village of Hoonah, Alaska who served in the Vietnam War. Their stories confront the complexity of serving a country that systematically oppressed them; a government that forbid the Tlingit language, over-logged their forests, and established laws that robbed returning vets of their ancestral trade as fishermen. Furthermore, their stories expose on a very personal...
4) Snow buddies
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The talking puppies are back, and this time they venture to the frosty arctic and team up with new friends in an exciting dogsled race across Alaska. When the going gets tough, the daring dogs have to band together with their new friends, Talon and Shasta, and muster up the courage to face fur-raising challenges!
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Carved from the Heart intertwines the process of carving and erecting the Healing Heart totem pole with the participants' stories of personal loss, grief, substance abuse, suicide and violence. This powerful film explores questions of death and dying, family relationships and parenting, domestic violence, and the impact of the war in Vietnam on veterans and their families. The film also acknowledges the intergenerational grief growing out of the rapid...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
What happens to a vegetarian who moves to Alaska and marries a commercial fisherman and deer hunter? Join her on a wry search for a sustainable, healthy and ethical meal. Women try to teach her to hunt, teens gather traditional foods, vegans give cooking lessons, she fishes for wild salmon, scrutinizes food labels with kids and finds toxic chemicals getting into wild foods. With humor and compassion, the documentary Eating Alaska shows natives and...
Language
English
Description
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...
10) The Fourth Kind
Language
English
Description
Since the 1960s, Nome, Alaska, has seen a disproportionate number of its population being reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.
Language
English
Description
Buck is a canine hero who faces adventures in a turn of the century Alaskan mining town and the surrounding area of Forty-Mile. Buck spends his time with his human friends Miles, and Miles' friends John and Adoley Thornton. Miles is a 15-year-old boy whose life will be forever changed after he encounters the heroic and powerful Buck.
14) Bears
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
15) The Grey
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness, a group of oil drillers are led across the icy terrain by their company marksman while they are relentlessly pursued by a pack of wolves.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
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...
17) American Arctic
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
Vast, wild, and untouched, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is where some of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles unfold. Situated in the northeast corner of Alaska, this refuge has long protected survivors of the Ice Age that still roam a frozen wilderness.
18) The spoilers
Series
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Questar
Language
English
Description
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...
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