How to Build an Igloo

How to Build an Igloo (1949)

January 1st, 19490h 11min

Documentary
67%

Overview

This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and place snow blocks and create an entrance--a shelter completed in one-and-a-half hours. The commentary explains that the interior warmth and the wind outside cement the snow blocks firmly together. As the short winter day darkens, the two builders move their caribou sleeping robes and extra skins indoors, confident of spending a snug night in the midst of the Arctic cold!


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive

Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive


Released on: 2004-01-01
Documentary

In this feature-length documentary, 8 Inuit teens with cameras offer a vibrant and contemporary view...

Pictures Out Of My Life

Pictures Out Of My Life


Released on: 1973-01-01
Documentary

The drawings and recollections of Inuit artist Pitseolak, from the book of the same title written by...

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds


Released on: 1990-01-01
Documentary

This feature film is a documentary portrait of Joseph Idlout, a man who was once the world's most fa...

The Annanacks

The Annanacks


Released on: 1964-01-01
Documentary

This short documentary depicts the formation in 1959 of the first successful co-operative in an Inui...

Qipisa

Qipisa


Released on: 2017-02-23
Documentary

The director goes back to her roots in Pangnirtung, amongst her family and community. It leads her t...

Netsilik Eskimos, VIII: Jigging for Lake Trout

Netsilik Eskimos, VIII: Jigging for Lake Trout


Released on: 1967-12-23
Documentary

More signs of winter's end as more wildlife returns. The family makes an excursion for fresh fish fr...

The Living Stone

The Living Stone


Released on: 1958-02-04
Documentary

The Living Stone is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by John Feeney about Inuit art. ...

Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power

Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power


Released on: 1938-12-31
Documentary

This short begins at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). The electricity generated here by the Colorado Ri...

Nanook of the North

Nanook of the North


Released on: 1922-06-11
Documentary, Drama

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

If the Weather Permits

If the Weather Permits


Released on: 2003-06-10
Documentary

Director Elisapie Issac's documentary is a sort-of letter to her deceased grandfather addressing the...

Martha of the North

Martha of the North


Released on: 2009-01-23
Documentary

In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Can...

Highway to the Arctic

Highway to the Arctic


Released on: 2017-02-21
Documentary

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

Natsik Hunting

Natsik Hunting


Released on: 1975-01-01
Documentary

Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed, narration-f...

Cookery Hints AKA Cooking Tips

Cookery Hints AKA Cooking Tips


Released on: 1957-02-18
Documentary

Little film showing a few tips on how to present food graciously. The famous husband and wife cookin...

The Last Igloo

The Last Igloo


Released on: 2019-06-14
Documentary

Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts, fishes and constructs an igloo, a way of life thr...

Timuti

Timuti


Released on: 2012-01-01
Documentary

In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they c...

Nowhere Land

Nowhere Land


Released on: 2015-10-17
Documentary

Documentary about filmmaker Bonnie Ammaaq's memories of life on Baffin Island, where her family move...

Twice Colonized

Twice Colonized


Released on: 2023-03-30
Documentary

Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has long fought for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly...

Nalujuk Night

Nalujuk Night


Released on: 2021-11-12
Documentary

Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradi...

What Belongs to Inuit

What Belongs to Inuit


Released on: 2009-01-01
Documentary

A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, too...