Movies about Alaska

Movies about Alaska
List of the best movies about Alaska, selected by visitors to our site: Into the Wild, The Edge, Wind River, Mother Lode, Harbinger Down, The Guardian, Wildlike, White Fang, 30 Days of Night, Transit.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, adventure, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them -- it could be Robert, whom Charles suspects is having an affair with his wife and would not mind seeing him dead.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. He is prepared to do anything - including murder - to keep his gold for himself.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer, Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA

Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military, history
CountryRussia
Duration02:20

A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it becomes clear that the American pilots are attractive and charming young women. The feelings of the Russian young men collide into barriers of culture and language resulting in a host of awkward, funny, and sometimes tragic situations.It is the story of Russians, Americans, and natives of the Far North. It is the story of man and woman in war. Love and death are squeezed between the hills as human fates are destroyed and born.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
Duration01:36

    In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:00

    In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredocumentary, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one man's attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:47

    Based on an inspiring true story, a small-town news reporter (Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Barrymore) enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. ‘Big Miracle’ is adapted from the nonfiction book ‘Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World’s Greatest Non-Event’ by Tom Rose.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Canada

    Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:43

    Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUSA

    Global climate change prompts a scientific corporation to genetically modify Alaskan polar bears with horrific and deadly results.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:17

    In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:33

    Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Iceland

    In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama
    CountryUSA

    With the holiday season in full swing, Jen Taylor is about to score a big promotion at the San Francisco ad agency where she works. But her life is unexpectedly turned upside down when she inherits a cozy inn in Alaska from her aunt. When she goes to inspect the property and meets handsome town attorney Steve Anderson, she's surprised to find that nothing is what she expected. The small town community is full of fun and festive Christmas traditions and soon, Jen starts wondering if the inn might just be the place she belongs, and if Steve could be the Mr. Right she has been waiting for.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family, sport
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:27

    Dylan Sprouse, Jim Belushi and Kris Kristofferson lend their voices to this family-friendly tale about a feisty pack of golden retriever puppies that embarks on an Alaskan adventure. When they find themselves stranded in the northern wilderness, the canine offspring of famed sports star Air Bud team up with an experienced sled dog and a husky pup, who teach them the importance of working together.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, family, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:40

    Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, family, documentary
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:17

    A documentary that follows an Alaskan bear family as its young cubs are taught life's most important lessons.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredocumentary, sport
    CountryUSA

    First Descent is a 2005 documentary film about snowboarding and its beginning in the 1980s. The snowboarders featured in this movie (Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata, Terje Haakonsen, Hannah Teter and Shaun White with guest appearances from Travis Rice) represent three generations of snowboarders and the progress this young sport has made over the past two decades. Most of the movie was shot in Alaska.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A giant flesh-eating reptile takes the Arctic region by storm.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    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. Based on the book and true story by Farley Mowat.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:22

    An attorney returns to his small home town in Alaska and quickly rocks the boat by getting an injunction against the nativity display tradition and attacking Christmas.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:16

    Balto and the other sled dogs are feeling dejected because the mail that used to be delivered by dogsled is now being delivered by airplanes. But when a mail plane crashes in the mountains, the dogs come to the rescue.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Animal House meets Casablanca in this outrageous snowboarding comedy. Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain until the legendary Papa Muntz' son decides to sell the mountain to sleazy land developer John Majors, having the staff fired and turning Bull Mountain into 'Yuppieville'.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:31

    Hoping to leave behind troubled days in the Baltimore city police department, Nate Burns journeys to Alaska, where he takes up a quiet life as a small-town sheriff and begins a romance with spirited bush pilot Meg Galligan). But when Meg's father turns up dead, Burns finds himself thrust into the limelight of a dangerous murder investigation.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

      An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genredrama, adventure, family, biography, history
      CountryUSA

      The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:40

      To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:38

      Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreadventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the mountains. Annoyed that the authorities aren't doing enough, Jessie and Sean set out on an adventure to find their father with the help of a polar bear which they have saved from a ferocious poacher. Conflict ensues.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryDenmark
      Duration01:39

      Just as David and Freja arrive at their newly bought country house close to the Cliffs of Møn the harmony is disturbed by an inexplicably suicide. When David realizes that their new craftsman Roar is linked to the person who fell of the cliff he starts being suspicious. David is also certain that Roar is hitting on Freja. She denies this and all Davids theories. David joins forces with the widow Veronica to solve the case and prove to Freja that he is right. But the closer he gets the truth the further away he gets from Freja. David has to risk everything to unveil circumstances that go far beyond his imagination...

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

        When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, drama, sport
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:59

        In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, slick promoters and millionaire athletes come together.




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