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Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and his wife, environmentalist Leanne Allison follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot across 1500 km of Arctic tundra, hoping to raise awareness of the threats to the caribou's survival. Along this journey, they brave torrid conditions, dangerous wildlife and treacherous terrain all in the hopes of learning the truth about this epic migration.
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Audiences 76GoodWatch 78
IMDb7.6
Running time
1 h 12 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −24 min on the typical 96
typical 9672Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 24 more
Released
2005
May 2, 2005
21 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- Canada
Directing · 2
- Diana Wilson Director, Writer
- Leanne Allison Director, Writer, Location Sound Recordist, Cinematography
Production · 5
- Rina Fraticelli Executive Producer
- Tracey Friesen Producer
- Bruce Hagerman Administration
- Trish Dolman Development Manager, Consulting Producer
- Kathryn Lynch Production Supervisor
Camera · 1
- Karsten Heuer Additional Camera, Location Sound Recordist
Editing · 2
- Garry M.B. Smith Editor
- Janice Brown Editor
Sound · 7
- Dennis Burke Original Music Composer
- Randall Tetlichi Music
- Bessie Wapp Vocals
- Beverly Dobrinsky Vocals
- Carmen Rosen Vocals
- Gael MacLean Sound Supervisor
Visual Effects · 1
- Shelley McIntosh Animation
Other crew · 1
- Pamela Pellegrini Transcriptions
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