December Encore: Building Alaska

Mon, November 23, 2009
Posted in Program Highlights, Schedule Updates

Viewers loved BUILDING ALASKA the first time so we are bringing it back in December.

“It celebrates Alaska’s engineering achievements during the 50th anniversary of statehood. Alaska’s arctic climate, with permafrost, cold and darkness, make it a difficult and expensive place to build. The story of overcoming these obstacles to create engineering masterpieces is the stuff of dramatic and visually spectacular TV.”

Promo video of Building Alaska.

Thursday, December 3. 8:30 – 10:30 p.m.

“The program features interviews with many Alaskans, rare and never before seen footage and photographs, including clips from the thought-to-be-lost Hollywood movie, The Iron Trail, and spectacular high-definition photography.”

“The Program: Building Alaska takes a look at the projects that built Alaska –

* Three great railroads—the White Pass, the Copper River, and the Alaska—that helped extract natural resources and transform Alaska into a place where people could live;

* Alaska’s roads, the Richardson and Parks Highways, which were carved from the wilderness and which, once paved and modernized, got Alaska “out of the mud”;

* Future projects on the drawing board such as a natural gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay and the Knik Arm Bridge in Anchorage.”

Produced by Great Projects Film Company

Executive Producers:

Kenneth Mandel, Daniel B. Polin

Producers:

Philip Boag, Andrew Morreale, Kenneth Mandel, Daniel B. Polin