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- Two bird enthusiasts try to defeat the cocky, cutthroat world record holder in a year-long bird-spotting competition.
- In the wilds of arctic Canada, a young filmmaker desperate to leave her old self behind meets an alluring local girl who changes her life. A sensual and gritty journey through the depths of desire.
- Yukon Gold follows four gold mining crews who have only four short months in Canada's wild Yukon to earn one BIG payday. With the price of gold hovering at record-breaking levels, a modern day gold rush is underway. One good strike makes a man rich - one bad season takes him down for good. Battling mechanical breakdowns, the elements and 18-hour days under the midnight sun, these competitive diehards have gold fever - and it keeps them coming back year after year for another chance to wager it all.
- The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
- Willow Creek, Alaska, is going through a depression because the local cannery has shut down putting many of the residents out of work. Ray and Pete are truck-driving brothers, different as day and night, who are hired by an old friend to bring Christmas presents and one huge surprise from sunny California up to there. Along the way, Ray, Pete, and the latter's son, Michael, argue and get stuck in a blizzard, but they finally reconcile with each other.
- Fortune hunters from all over the country rush to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
- A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
- Author Pierre Berton tells the history of his hometown of Dawson City at its heyday during the Klondike Gold Rush.
- A documentary that chronicles life's natural unfolding when a family tries to live by the seasons instead of by the clock.
- The urge to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find gold in alluvial gravel is part of a long history of desire and extraction in the far Canadian north. Cancan dancers, curlers, smelters, former city officials, and a curious cliff-side mirrored disc congregate to form a town portrait. Shot on location in Dawson City, Yukon Territory.
- What happens when an ordinary family, living just south of the Arctic Circle, bans all grocery store food from their house for one year? Add 3 skeptical teenagers, 1 reluctant husband, no salt, no caffeine, no sugar, -40 temperatures.
- A travelogue documentary detailing the travel routes in Alaska determined to be "Scenic Byways" by the Federal Government. The documentary begins in Valdez and follows the crew through most of the state. Detail is given to the historical relics of Alaska's rich mining history, archaeological evidence, geologic formations, and the modern fusion of Alaska's culture.
- Set in the northern wilds surrounding the tiny sub-Arctic town of Dawson City, Yukon, Sovereign Soil is an ode to the beauty of this ferocious, remote land and the wisdom of those who've chosen to call it home.
- The Yukon is synonymous with wilderness, the gold rush, and also the toughest sled dog race in the world: The Yukon Quest. The series follows 7 dog teams as they attemps the 1000 mile race from Whitehorse, Yukon to Fairbanks, Alaska. Enormous challenges face the competitors: Four mountain summits, glaciers, overflowing rivers and lakes, wild animal encounters, six hours of daylight and temperature falling below -50 degrees Celsius. This race is not for the faint of heart and has been completed by fewer men and women than have climbed Mount Everest. It attracts only the most experienced and adventurous competitors from around the world.
- Six Artists paddle into the Arctic - A story of Art, Adventure and Canadian Wilderness. In jeopardy of development, The Peel Project highlights the landscape, culture and wildlife of the Peel River Watershed, one of the last intact river systems left in North America.
- Vancouver filmmaker buddies Dalton and Stewart find themselves in Canada's Yukon in search of gold treasure to fund their next film project. Will they be seduced by Yukon Magic?
- Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows.
- A description of placer gold mining in the Yukon. East of Dawson City giant dredges cut deep into the creek beds, leaving behind monstrous coils of waste as the gold-bearing gravel is washed. The film shows how gold is trapped and hand-sorted, finally to emerge as precious gold brick.
- A portrait of one caveman's resiliency and adaptability confronting the climate crisis from his sub-arctic cave in a cliff face on the Yukon River, where he's been living for 24 years.
- You moved to Dawson City, near the Arctic Circle? Why?
- Three different current examples of Canada's past in three different locations are shown. In "Upper Canada of Yore", a trip is made to the museum of Upper Canada Village located in what used to be Upper Canada (now part of Ontario), the museum not only including artifacts and buildings true to pre-Confederation Canada, including some recreations, but demonstrations of how people lived. In "The Trail of '98 Revisited", the viewer is next taken to Dawson City, Yukon Territory during the town's annual Gold Rush Festival which celebrates the gold rush of the area in the last decade of the nineteenth century. And in "The Changing of the Guard", the summertime tradition of the procession of the changing of the guards is shown, it taking place on Parliament Hill in front of the Parliament Building housing the legislative branch of government in the nation's capital of Ottawa.
- This film was obtained after a great outlay of time and money and shows the ice-bound Yukon River in the Alaska gold mining regions of which so much has been written in the past two years. The picture also shows a steamer trying to plow its way through the ice giving the much-talked of smoke effect which enhances the value of the picture.
- Hi. I'm Hammad, a short, slight, ridiculously lucky kid-at-heart who has watched 98% of my childhood dreams come true. I'm also disabled, and becoming a card-carrying member of the brotherhood of the physically challenged is the single luckiest event I've ever experienced in my life. These moments have helped me grow far beyond my tiny frame. Some of these snapshots are comedic, while others are tragic, but all of them are littered with the abundant truth that if I can limp my way into the life I love, anybody can achieve anything.