A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.

Describes various elements of the traditional life of Arctic people including their homes, clothing, games, crafts, and beliefs as well as changes brought about by the arrival of Europeans.

Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.

Text in both Inuktitut and English describes a now vanished way of life for the Inuit.

Alaska trooper Nathan Active investigates a rash of suicides in an Eskimo village. The villagers blame a family curse, but Active, an Eskimo raised by whites, thinks a human hand is at work.

"In 1939, everything changes for Anne Girl when outsider John Nelson grounds his sailboat on the shores, into Anne Girl's skiff, and into her life during a rare storm in the Alaskan fishing village of Nushagak. When Anne Girl and her mother, Marulia, find their skiff flattened by John's boat, Anne Girl decides she both hates and wants him. Thus begins a generational saga of strong, stubborn Yup'ik women living in a village that has been divided between...

Describes the discovery of mummies in Greenland in 1972 and the work of forensic anthropologists who investigated the remains of these members of the Thule culture, ancestors of today's Eskimos.

Story of a life-changing experience for a biologist studying the wolves in Canada's inhospitable North. A green young biologist named Tyler (Smith) is sent by the Canadian government to "prove" that the wolves are depleting the caribou herds, but what he finds is a natural world in perfect harmony where he becomes a tolerated outsider. Dumped unprepared in the wilds by a hard drinking bush pilot (Dennehy), Tyler learns survival skills from the aged...