In May of 1942, across the rugged sub-Arctic wilderness of Alaska and Canada, thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever undertaken-building the Alaska Highway. This program tells how young soldiers battled mud, muskeg, and mosquitoes; endured ice, snow, and bitter cold; and cut pathways through primeval forests to push a 1,520-mile road across one of the world's harshest landscapes.

An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film...

In Canada and Alaska, the consequences of global warming are being keenly felt by brown bears - but ...

The documentary follows a crew of snowboarders for six weeks in the Chugach mountains, and showcases...
Captain Kleinschmidt leads an expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Museum to the arctic regions of A...

Alaska... Here, in this vast and spectacularly beautiful land teeming with abundant wildlife, discov...

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Par...

A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Camp...

First Descent is a 2005 documentary film about snowboarding and its beginning in the 1980s. The snow...

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has p...

In the ice-gripped environment of Alaska's Admiralty Island, summer offers the briefest of respites....

The curiously optimistic tale of Doug Butler—a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer who risks losing th...

Take a front seat ride and experience what it takes to make a first ascent on one of the world's big...

An exploration of built and natural environments along the 800-mile length of the Trans-Alaska Pipel...

Glenn Close narrates this National Park Service movie about the many varied aspects of Gates of the ...

Twenty years ago, a young American hiker named Chris McCandless, the accomplished son of successful ...

Newly into addiction recovery, an urgent threat emerges to spur filmmaker, Mark Titus back to the Al...

Since the days of Apartheid, Main Reef Road has linked Johannesburg, its suburbs, and the outlying v...
Sixteen-year-old Jewel Wilson is the next generation in a long line of prolific Inupiat subsistence ...

When a series of shocking, violent crimes shatters a remote native village in Northern Alaska, one m...