"alaska"
Cheechako: Americans who moved to Alaska
This film introduces the term Cheechako -- an Alaskan Indian word meaning newcomer. The film looks at what kind of living and working conditions newcomers could.
One Man's Alaska
A documentary profile of conservationist and wildlife cinematographer Dick Proenneke at his wilderness home in the Lake Clark areas of Alaska. Includes scenes of area wildlife, along with clips of Proenneke carving his log cabin home out of the wilderness.
Alaska's White Pass & Yukon
Travel to Alaska to visit one of the most incredible railroads in the world, Alaska's White Pass & Yukon Route. Built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, this railroad travels through some of the most spectacular scenery found anywhere. Start your journey in early May in the beautiful town of Skagway and climb 3,000 feet to the summit of White P..
Alaska: The Inside Passage
From the Puget Sound to the southeastern tip of Alaska, witness the breathtaking scope of the North American sea route known as the Blue Highway. Discover one of the most beautiful waterways in the world the Blue Highway, a North American sea route that stretches 1,000 miles from the Puget Sound to southeast Alaska! Explore the history, cultural di..
Alaskan Killer Shark
Every year, millions of Pacific salmon head to spawning grounds in Alaska. But thousands of warm-blooded, ravenous salmon sharks ply these icy waters. It's a David vs Goliath battle for life.
Alluring Alaska
This Traveltalk series short introduces the viewer to Alaska.
Alaska Fishing Adventure: Floating the Goodnews River
A group of "regular guys" goes on an unguided float-fishing trip down one of Alaska's finest fishing streams, the Goodnews River. The Goodnews River starts in the remote Ahklun Mountains of the Togiak Wilderness, where the nearest road that leads anywhere is 350 miles away! Join us on a float from the mountains to the sea. We weren't the only ones ..
Cast Alaska
Cast Alaska is not only for fishermen but fans of adventure, the great outdoors and The Last Frontier. Follow sportsmen rafting on white-water, throttling in jet-boats and drifting by wilderness and wildlife in this adventure of a lifetime.
National Geographic: Man Made: Alaska's Extreme Machines
This is the story of three massive and magnificent machines specially designed and built to take on and survive Alaska's extreme conditions: the most powerful ocean tug in the country; a massive self-propelled mobile oil drill rig; and the biggest, toughest ship in the U.S. fishing fleet.
The Alaska Pipeline
When Atlantic Richfield prospectors struck oil at Prudhoe Bay early in 1968, they stumbled upon the largest oil field ever discovered in North America. Getting that oil out of Alaska would take nine years, employ some 78,000 people, cost more than $8 billion, and require threading 800 miles of steel pipe through America's most pristine wilderness.
Eating Alaska
A vegetarian moves to Alaska, marries a fisher-hunter and sets off on a quest for the 'right' thing to eat. From Alaska Native teens in a home economics class to women hunting, it is a wry look at what's on your plate and where it comes from.
This is My Alaska
Photographed around the time of statehood, depicts hunting and fishing in Alaska's beautiful scenic wilderness.
Alaska's Silent Summer
In 2019, 1.2 million people stepped off a cruise ship into the small, south-east Alaskan town of Ketchikan. The next year, in 2020, zero did. After decades of diligent work building a sleepy fishing, mining, and logging town into one of the most sought after cruise destinations in the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed Ketchikan into an e..
Alaska Sweepstakes
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit enters a dogsled race with a $10,000 first prize.
Alaska the First 10,000 Years
t's the hilarious story of Alaska's History that only Mr. Whitekeys can tell. From the earliest days of cavemen hitchhiking across the Bering Sea Land Bridge to Nowhere, through the gold rush and on to statehood, you'll learn the little known and mostly true history of the Last Frontier. Mr. Whitekeys has searched the archives and tells the tales o..
Das Alaska Syndrom
Documentary feature about the accident of the super tanker "Exxon Valdez" in Alaska in 1989.
Alaska Patrol
Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned to investigate and determine who is behind the spy syndicate for which Rattick worked. They bring in the services of Agent Tom Norman, who bears a strong r..
Double Alaska
In the summer of 2013, I spent two months living in Southeast Alaska, living on a former college campus and playing guitar in their old steam power plant building, often during long, lazy sunrises. I rehearsed a certain amount of continuous time each day, logging almost 70 hours of uninterrupted improvisation. I recorded a number of these sessions,..
