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Building the Alaska Highway

02/07/2005

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0hr 48min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Joe Morton
  • Ruth Gruber
  • Charles Hendricks
  • Heath Twichell
  • William Griggs

    Director

  • Randall MacLowry

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • American Experience Films

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Joe Morton

Narrator (voice)

Ruth Gruber

Self - Journalist

Charles Hendricks

Self - Military Historian

Heath Twichell

Self - Historian

William Griggs

Self - Army Engineer

Billy Connor

Self - Civil Engineer

Hayward Oubre

Self - Army Engineer

John Bollin

Self - Army Engineer

Henry Geyer

Self - Army Engineer

Fred Mims

Self - Quartermaster Corps