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Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story
4) Limbo
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Story revolves around Joe Gastineau, a fisherman traumatized by an accident at sea years before, singer Donna de Angelo, and her teenage daughter Noelle who come into Joe's life. When Joe's fast-talking half-brother Bobby returns to town and asks Joe for a favor, the lives of the characters are changed forever
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A quirky, black comedy about Paul Barnell, a nearly bankrupt Alaskan travel agent whose wife, Margaret, is on the brink of insanity. When he finds a frozen body in the dumpster behind his office, Paul thinks this is answer to his financial problems. He tries to pass the body off as his long-lost brother to collect on the insurance money. Not only does he have to worry about an unrelenting investigator and two aspiring hit men are also after him, his...
6) The edge
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A model has her rich, much older husband come with her to a photo shoot. But when their plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between the jealous husband and the younger photographer as they try to get back to civilization
Series
Publisher
Alaska Video Postcards, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"This award winning video captures the heart and soul of the breathtaking Inside Passage of Alaska. You'll explore the historic sights of Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, Haines and Skagway. Walk the amazing totem parks and ride into history aboard the White Pass and Yukon Raidroad. You'll also visit Glacier Bay National park and Tracy Arm where the ice age is still releasing its grip. This DVD also includes four bonus videos with over 40 minutes of...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The story takes place in Kotzebue, a small town in northwest Alaska. A 20-year old pipeline worker, whose name is also Kotzebue, is in search of parents and self when she meets Roswitha, a German middle-aged librarian whose husband was killed twenty years ago as they escaped from East Berlin. A friendship develops between Kotz and Roswitha as they search for the truth about their respective pasts
Publisher
Great Projects Film Co
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"From the Emmy Award® winning and Oscar® nominated producers of the four-part PBS series Great Projects: The Building of America, now comes Building Alaska, a century-long journey with the dedicated and visionary men and women who built Alaska's great engineering projects in the coldest, most remote and forbidding part of the United States. This feature-length documentary tells the stories of the great railroads and highways of the late 19th and...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Tour this spectacular state with noted zoologist and anthropologist Jeff Corwin as he searches for whales or watches grizzlies catch their dinner. Episodes include The Kenai Peninsula; Mobile Alaska; Denali National Park and Preserve; and more
11) Snow buddies
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The talking puppies are back, and this time they venture to the frosty arctic and team up with new friends in an exciting dogsled race across Alaska. When the going gets tough, the daring dogs have to band together with their new friends, Talon and Shasta, and muster up the courage to face the fur-raising challenges ahead. But will the puppies have what it takes to win the race and find their way back home?
13) The fourth kind
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since the 1960s, Nome, Alaska, has seen a disproportionate number of its population being reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.
Publisher
distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In May 1942, thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever undertaken. This program tells how they battled to push a 1,520-mile road across one of the world's harshest landscapes
Publisher
NDi Media Distribution
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Depicts the life of environmentalist Margaret E. "Mardy" Murie, who, along with her husband, Olaus Murie, co-founded the Wilderness Society. Recounts the exceptional life of a woman who grew up in frontier Alaska, married a pioneer arctic biologist, and dedicated her life to the protection of the magnificent wild lands she so passionately loves. Features interviews, archival photographs and video clips, as well as footage of Mardy's later years and...
17) Cruise Alaska
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Cruise Alaska and see all the wonderful sights. Anchorage, Denali, Fairbanks, Haines, Homer, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, Valdez.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container
Series
Publisher
Good Times
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A journey through our largest and least populous state, Alaska. Home of more than 60% of America's national parkland - some 54 million acres. Here the wilderness and wildlife are unspoiled by modern man, from Glacier Bay's massive fjords, and Mount McKinley's snow-capped summit, to brown bears feasting on salmon. The past is now preserved at historic Klondike Gold Rush, and Eskimo people who still hunt and fish the rugged, beautiful land. Ranging...
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