The Last Dogs Of Winter

Canadian Eskimo Dogs, or Qimmiq, were once indispensible to human life in the arctic. Today, the breed faces extinction. Since 1976, Brian Ladoon has stuck to a promise to maintain a viable breeding colony, battling chronic underfunding, wandering polar bears, officialdom and a harsh natural environment to keep his word. All the creatures in this realm: bears, dogs, and men, are on the edge, hanging on to their final toehold in a world growing increasingly inhospitable to their needs.

"Intimate, gorgeously rendered docu intelligently surveys one man's quixotic mission, the numerous obstacles he faces and the uneasy co-existence of man, animal and nature in a small town. A wilderness lover's delight."  Variety