Building the Alaska Highway (2005)

• 85%
• 2005
• Documentary
• Tracy Heather Strain
• Joe Morton
• Ruth Gruber
• Charles Hendricks

In May of 1942, across the rugged sub-Arctic wilderness of Alaska and Canada, thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever undertaken-building the Alaska Highway. This program tells how young soldiers battled mud, muskeg, and mosquitoes; endured ice, snow, and bitter cold; and cut pathways through primeval forests to push a 1,520-mile road across one of the world's harshest landscapes.