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1. Without a Paddle (2004)

PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

After their friend dies, three men decide to fulfill their childhood dream by going on a camping expedition for the lost D. B. Cooper bounty, with calamitous results.

Director: Steven Brill | Stars: Matthew Lillard, Seth Green, Dax Shepard, Matthew Price

Votes: 51,001 | Gross: $58.17M

2. Centennial (1978–1979)

TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid 1700s to the late 1970s.

Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad

Votes: 3,683

3. Man in the Wilderness (1971)

GP | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Left for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper recuperates and pursues his former companions through dangerous Indian territory.

Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, Percy Herbert

Votes: 3,486

4. Grey Owl (1999)

PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Western

The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau

Votes: 4,051 | Gross: $0.63M

5. Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs (1978)

1 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

A cinematic portrait of the fur trading teams that transported materials throughout much of the interior of 18th-19th century Canada.

Star: Michael Kane

Votes: 42

6. The Worst Jobs in History (2004– )
Episode: Dark Ages (2004)

Documentary

Some of the worst jobs of the Dark Ages in Britain were mining gold for the Romans, plowing fields with a wooden plow and other difficult and disgusting jobs of the period.

Director: Brendan Hughes | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mick Baker, Damian Brooke

Votes: 29

7. The Red Green Show (1991–2006)
Episode: Fund Raiser (1997)

TV-G | 24 min | Comedy

Red and his pals stage a fund raising fair in an effort to save the community center from destruction, with, as always, unexpected results.

Director: Rick Green | Stars: Bob Bainborough, Rick Green, Patrick McKenna, Gordon Pinsent

Votes: 19

8. Great Canadian Rivers (2001– )
Episode: Churchill River (2001)

Documentary

The Churchill River in Nothern Saskatchewan and Monitoba is more a collection of lakes connected by rapids and water falls. That made it a superb highway for the trade in beaver pelts in ... See full summary »

Stars: Doug Chisolm, Rick Driediger, Barabara Hanbridge, Richard Highway

9. Great Canadian Rivers (2001– )
Episode: Athabaska River (2001)

Documentary

The Athabaska River is one of four rivers originating in the Columbia Ice Field in the Rocky Mountains. In the late nineteenth century it was an important commercial river now displaced by ... See full summary »

Stars: Mike Gizmondi, Tom Jackson, Peter Johnson, Peter Lemieux

10. Great Canadian Rivers (2001– )
Episode: Hayes River (2004)

Documentary

Connecting Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay, the slow, shallow Hayes River was a popular highway for the Cree people for thousands of years then for the fur trade with the arrival of the ... See full summary »

Stars: Byron Apetagon, Robert Coutts, Anthony Dalton, Larry Duncan

11. Uncharted Travel (2016– )
Episode: 6 Day Wilderness Canoe & Camping Trip Through the Most Beautiful Park in Ontario (2020)

34 min | Documentary

Today we find ourselves canoe camping in Killarney Provincial Park - the most beautiful park in Ontario. We set out to complete a difficult 136km loop, through the whole Northern half of ... See full summary »

Stars: Andrew, Brennen Evangelista, Scott