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- Two bird enthusiasts try to defeat the cocky, cutthroat world record holder in a year-long bird-spotting competition.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.