Classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold fields over 3000 km north of civilization. Still photographs juxtapose Dawson City today against its bustling height in the gold rush.
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Pierre Berton as Self - Narrator (voice)
Wolf Koenig Director
Canada 02 May 1957
France 02 May 1957
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26 July 1957
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13 February 1957
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18 February 1957
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25 December 1957
A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants.
01 January 1957
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28 June 1957
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30 October 1957
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