Charting the North

Nine DVDs with movies chronicling the efforts to explore and map the Arctic from land, air and even under water.

Volume 1: Men Against Ice and Steering North
Volume 2: Stefansson: The Arctic Prophet and Memories and Predictions
Volume 3: Henry Larsen and Henry Larsen's Northwest Passages
Volume 4: The Conquered Dream
Volume 5: The Land That Devours Ships
Volume 6: Martin Frobisher's Gold Mine
Volume 7: Across Arctic Ungava and The Aviators of Hudson Strait
Volume 8: Sub-Igloo, Arctic IV
Volume 9: Navy Goes North

These films are part of In Celebration of Nunavut, a collection of 60 DVDs comprised of 107 films made between 1942 and 1996, on life in the Arctic from first contact to today. While some of these archival films reflect the colonialist attitudes of their era they remain important historical documents.