23 October 1981 Adventure, Drama 94 mins
Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the Canadian wilderness.
Watch the official Silence of the North 1981 trailer in HD below or find more Silence of the North videos on Vidimovie.
Ellen Burstyn as Olive Frederickson
Gordon Pinsent as John Frederickson
Tom Skerritt as Walter Reamer
Colin Fox as Arthur Herriot
Jennifer McKinney as Little Olive Reamer
Donna Dobrijevic as Vala Reamer
Jeff Banks as Lewis Reamer
David Fox as Lea Goodwin
Frank C. Turner as Young Man
Allan King Director
Ben East Book
Robert Baylis Executive Producer
Patricia Louisianna Knop Screenplay
Bill Brodie Production Design
Arla Saare Editor
Bill Brodie Art Direction
Glenn Randall Jr. Stunts
Richard Leiterman Director of Photography
Canada 23 October 1981
If you liked the Silence of the North trailer, you may like these ones:
18 December 1997
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé.
12 September 1990
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
30 August 2002
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths.
16 December 2002
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.
16 September 2004
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west.
20 December 1989
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
20 December 1962
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley.
17 June 2004
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
17 December 2004
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
04 October 1987
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
18 May 1993
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
30 June 1995
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Silence of the North:
a lil history of my family made into a movie. :) Based on the biography of Olive Fredrickson It tells of her life as a girl then a trapper's wife and later a widow with ...
1982 HBO ad for "Silence of the North" (1981) starring Tom Skerritt & Ellen Burstyn.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1981:
10 December 1981
A schoolgirl and her older girlfriend seduce the teacher in order to improve their grades.
18 November 1981
A group of friends on vacation in Deauville take on the challenge of hitting on as many girls as possible, collecting the underwear of each of their "victims" as trophies.
04 November 1981
After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.
26 October 1981
A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story of the same name.
11 June 1981
Two ex-convicts are hired by the Devil to manage a small town cemetery.
01 February 1981
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.
28 April 1981
Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Bootle Railway Club he sees an aggressive young man fresh from the dole queue who dreams of becoming a professional comedian.
17 September 1981
Nina Kern, a divorced woman in her late twenties, will soon be fully deprived of her custody rights for her three children, who already reside in a home for the displaced due to Nina’s many years of willful neglect.
Have you watched Silence of the North yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1981 Universal Pictures.