In the small town of Beaverfield, a snowstorm isolates the residents and cuts off all communication. As tensions rise, a forest ranger and a postal worker become suspicious of the others, realizing that there may be werewolves among them. With the help of a visiting environmentalist and a married gay couple, they must uncover the werewolves' identities and survive the night.
In the remote wilderness, a man forms an unlikely bond with a family of bears and embarks on a journey of self-discovery. As they face various challenges together, their friendship grows stronger. However, their peaceful existence is threatened when a construction project puts their habitat at risk. Determined to protect his newfound friends, the man takes a stand and fights to save the bears and their home.
Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952) is a hilarious cartoon that follows Spike the dog as he tries to sleep but is constantly disturbed by a mischievous bear. With a series of funny and ironic events, the bear creates chaos in Spike's life, leaving him exhausted and frustrated. Can Spike find a way to outsmart the bear and finally get some sleep? Find out in this classic animated comedy.
A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.
A Canadian Mountie tracks and captures the murderers of a fur trapper, but is later overpowered, tied to a tree, and left in the woods to die. The Mountie's brother finds him just before he dies, and sets out to recapture the killers.
This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.
A wealthy father tries to discourage his daughter's taste for stories of the Mounted; her imagination conjures up the ideal lover as one who wears that red coat and whose slogan is "get your man." She arrives at her father's camp in the frozen North the victim of a frameup: her father had planned that his employees must discourage her in every manner possible. The idea is if she sees him she will be disillusioned. A few hunters spying the "wolves" shoot with intent to kill, and a real bear enters the hut and scatters the plotters. The scheme works well, even with all these inconveniences, until a genuine Mountie appears on the scene and administers punishment to the arch-villain and his dwarf-like henchman. As a result the girl's romantic imagination vindicates her beau ideal. The two lovers are last seen standing chest-deep in the snow.
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