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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.
- Author Pierre Berton tells the history of his hometown of Dawson City at its heyday during the Klondike Gold Rush.
- 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.
- A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
- 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 documentary that chronicles life's natural unfolding when a family tries to live by the seasons instead of by the clock.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- On OUT IN THE COLD host Barry Kennedy pitches in and finds out just what it takes to wrangle icebergs from the open sea for their pure ancient waters, or to test new cars under the most extreme conditions. Get chills when we fly with an ice pilot as he shows us the thrills and dangers of flying a plane in icy conditions and learn why he does it, or be amazed at a wild-life vet who handles everything from seals to bison out in the freezing temperatures they inhabit.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows.
- Following the steps of two Italian brothers who took part in the 1898 Klondike gold rush, the geologist and prospector Sandro Frizzi travels the Yukon, northwestern Canada: he meets prospectors, writers, trappers and residents of Dawson City, the town where nobody locks the door.
- You moved to Dawson City, near the Arctic Circle? Why?
- 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.
- 1 - Gold mining techniques at Klondike from gold rush days to the 1970s using archival stills and footage. 2 - Filmed at Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation, it examines the techniques of gold dredging, hydraulic mining and hand sorting.
- 2009– 46m8.0 (5)TV EpisodeBilly finds the remains of a crashed Lancaster bomber when he visits the weather station on Resolute Island. Boarding a Russian cruise ship starts his journey across the Northwest Passage. A stop off at Beechey Island takes him to three graves from Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition. His fellow passengers get excited when a polar bear is spotted on a nearby island. An ice blockage forces the ship to find an alternative route. Another stop off at King William Island reveals how Franklin's expedition came to a rather gruesome end. He talks about how Roald Admundsen's later and more successful expedition did things much differently whilst in Gjoa Haven. A flight to Tuktoyaktuk sees him explore a huge underground freezer. Hitching a lift with an ice road trucker at Invuik sends him down the Dempsey Highway. A quick pit stop in McPherson takes him to the graves of four unfortunate Mounties. A helicopter flies him to the astonishing beauty that is the Tombstone Territorial Park. His hotel in the old Gold Rush town of Dawson City turns out to be a former brothel. A trip to where gold was first found in the area sees him pay a visit to a man who still works in the industry.
- Eleven towns down, two more to go. Mark and Calum trek up to the famed gold prospecting destination - Dawson City, Yukon. A thriving summer tourist attraction, 60,000 visitors flock to Dawson City each year. Those who leave before winter are labeled 'Cheechakos.' Those who stay to brave the sub-zero elements are known as 'Sourdoughs.' This week it's all respect when Calum and his hardened team of Sourdoughs face off against Mark and his pack of seasonal Cheechakos on Dawson City's only tennis court! And the punishment for losing - 'The Dawson City White-Out!'.
- While in a self-imposed exile in the Yukon as a prospector at the end of the Gold Rush, Murdoch prospects for gold as in his absence Crabtree works on a Toronto homicide.
- On the Dalton, everyone is gunning to be the new haul road ace, but Darrell s plan is derailed by a massive wreck that calls into question his reasons for being in Alaska.
- To find gold, you have to dig a lot of dirt. Get up close and personal with the excavator as it loads pay into the rock trucks.
- Eighteen-year old Parker Schnabel leaves home and the Big Nugget mine to set up his own operation in the Klondike on Tony Beet's land. In Alaska, the Dakota boys take to the skies trying to find a way to the source of all the gold in Porcupine Creek.