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7.5

♡ 8

Christian Collerton Director

Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts, fishes and constructs an igloo, a way of life threatened by climate change.

The Last Ice

2020

7.4

95%

Scott Ressler Director

For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada and Greenland, the outside world sees unprecedented opportunity. Oil and gas deposits, faster shipping routes, tourism, and fishing all provide financial incentive to exploit the newly opened waters. But for more than 100,000 Inuit, an entire way of life is at stake. Development here threatens to upset the delicate balance between their communities, land, and wildlife. Divided by aggressive colonization and decades of hardship, Inuit in Canada and Greenland are once again coming together, fighting to protect what will remain of their world. The question is, will the world listen?

The Snow Walker

2003

7.3

♡ 14

86%

79%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Charles Martin Smith Director

Kiersten Warren as Estelle

William MacDonald as Miner in Bar

Greg Spottiswood as Mr. Moss

James Cromwell as Walter Shepherd

A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.

The Grizzlies

2018

7.5

♡ 19

87%

95%

false promises of a better life

based on a true story

Miranda de Pencier Director

Eric Schweig as Harry Aviak

Booboo Stewart as Kyle

Will Sasso as Mike

Ben Schnetzer as Russ Sheppard

In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.

Martha of the North

7.5

inuit

Marquise Lepage Director

In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in the Far North. In this icy desert realm, Martha Flaherty and her family lived through one of Canadian history’s most sombre and little-known episodes.

Shadow of the Wolf

1992

5.8

♡ 8

Jacques Dorfmann Director

Jennifer Tilly as Igiyook

Toshirô Mifune as Kroomak

Richard Zeman as Policeman

Nicholas Campbell as Scott

In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northern Quebec.

Children of the Arctic

2014

7.4

♡ 1

Nick Brandestini Director Samuel

Samuel as Self Josiah

Josiah as Self Flora

Flora as Self Ace

Ace as Self

Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the northernmost community in the United States. As their climate and culture undergo profound changes, they strive to balance being modern American kids and the inheritors of an endangered way of life.

Map of the Human Heart

1992

7.0

♡ 7

Adventure

Vincent Ward Director

Anne Parillaud as Albertine

Ben Mendelsohn as Farmboy

Richard Zeman as MP

John Cusack as The Mapmaker

In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.

The White Dawn

1974

7.0

♡ 5

83%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Philip Kaufman Director

Warren Oates as Billy

Timothy Bottoms as Daggett

Higa Ipeelie as Evaloo

Louis Gossett Jr. as Portagee

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

Brother Bear

2003

6.9

♡ 57

38%

Aaron Blaise Director

Bill Farmer as Additional Voice

Bumper Robinson as Chipmunks

Joaquin Phoenix as Kenai

Estelle Harris as Old Lady Bear

When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, including the lovable bear cub Koda, hilarious moose Rutt and Tuke, woolly mammoths and rambunctious rams.

Highway to the Arctic

2017

German

♡ 2

Karl Teuschl Director

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. While the landscape is covered with snow and lakes of a thick layer of ice, blocking land transport, ice roads are converted to frozen expanses as far as the eye can see.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997

6.3

♡ 11

55%

57%

based on novel or book

Bille August Director

Matthew Marsh as Detective

Richard Harris as Dr. Andreas Tork

Jim Broadbent as Dr. Lagermann

Bob Peck as Ravn

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.

Nanook of the North

1922

7.6

♡ 2

100%

Robert J. Flaherty Director Cunayou

Cunayou as Cunayou - Nanook's Daughter

Allakariallak as Nanook

Alice Nevalinga as Nanook's Wife - the Smiling One

Berry Kroeger as Narrator (1939 re-release)

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Never Cry Wolf

1983

7.5

♡ 15

100%

Carroll Ballard Director

Charles Martin Smith as Farley Mowat / Tyler

Tom Dahlgren as Hunter #1

Brian Dennehy as Rosie Jed

Jed as Wolf

A scientific researcher, sent on a government study: The Lupus Project, must investigate the possible "menace" of wolves in the north. To do so, he must survive in the wilderness for six months on his own. In the course of these events, he learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the wolf species.

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

2001

Inuktitut

7.4

♡ 3