Alaska

the grand gallery. A photo musical production

Alaska [videorecording]: the grand gallery. A photo musical production / by Steve Gilroy.

"This multi media production showcases the stunning photography of Alaskan photographer Steve Gilroy which is choreographed to inspiring orchestral music. In addition there is a fascinating segment of northern lights images by Patrick J. Endres as well as mountaineering photography from atop Mt. McKinley by guides Brian Okonek and Brian McCullough"--From container.

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Alaska :

Alaska: [videorecording] : a day in the life/

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Alaska at war

Alaska at war [videorecording] / Aurora Films and Alaska Historical Commission; a film by Laurence Goldin.

Takes a look at the time during the Second World War when Americans defended the territory of Alaska from a Japanese attack and built roads, harbors and airports, thereby changing Alaska forever. Tells how Alaska's weather and terrain proved a common enemy to Japanese and American alike.

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Alaska college track 2

Alaska college track 2 [videorecording] / from KTOO Productions and University of Alaska Foundation; Capital Community Broadcasting.

Tells the stories of several Alaska Native students' struggles to get a higher education. Highlights their achievements and struggles, including remedial classes, financial hardship, and personal tragedy.

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Alaska Far Away.

Alaska Far Away.

In the midst of the despair of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal gave over 200 struggling Midwestern farm families an extraordinary opportunity: the chance to start over on the Alaskan frontier. Alaska Far Away tells the story of this bold government experiment, and the families who found themselves thrust into the national spotlight along the way.

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Alaska Highway

Alaska Highway [videorecording] / screenplay by Maxwell Shane and Lewis R. Foster.

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The Alaska story of Anna Bortel Church

as told to Naomi Gaede-Penner

The Alaska story of Anna Bortel Church [videorecording]: as told to Naomi Gaede-Penner.

"In the late 1950s there was no school teacher for the most remote region in Alaska-- until Anna Bortel Church. In this captivating interview with former pupil Naomi Gaede-Penner, Anna Bortel Church recounts her story of traveling to Alaska and becoming the first permanent school teacher for the Nunamiut Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass... Listen as she recounts her story of pioneer teaching in Alaska, starting in 1954 when she drove up the Alcan Highway from Ohio to Valdez. Three years later, she pushed north to Tanana, along the Yukon River and in the middle of Interior Alaska. Here she met the Gaede family and had Naomi and Ruth Gaede as students. See the drafty Quonset huts with freezing oil lines that added to her teaching challenges. Discouraged? Yes. Daunted? No. She couldn't resist accompanying Doc Gaede on a medical field trip to the most remote of all Native groups -- the Nunamiut Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass, [which needed really needed a teacher despite] 'No school building, only a tent or sod house available for teacherage, no roads to transport building supplies, no wood for fuel except willows, no airline service, no public services besides post office. Severe winters... they persuaded Anna Bortel, who had been head teacher at Tanana School, to teach them in their church'... Catch a glimpse of her Arctic world with smiling students, and the sod house she called home."--Website

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Alaska teen rescue

Alaska teen rescue [videorecording] / producer/director/writer Amy Bucher.

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Alaska the first 10,000 years

Alaska the first 10,000 years [videorecording]

The "mostly true" story of Alaska's history explored in a "side-splitting music-filled extravaganza of epic proportions" with dozens of cameo appearances by famous Alaskans.

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Alaska's bloodiest battle

Alaska's bloodiest battle [videorecording] / produced by History Television Network Productions; producer, Steve Thomas.

Combining original footage and an onsite interview with a Battle of Attu veteran, this program reviews the Battle of Attu, Alaska, 1943 during World War II.

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