Highway to the Arctic (2017)
• February 21st, 2017 • 0h 43min
Documentary
Overview
Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. While the landscape is covered with snow and lakes of a thick layer of ice, blocking land transport, ice roads are converted to frozen expanses as far as the eye can see.
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