Aristokraten Sir Anthony Ross, hvis søn er forsvundet på en hvalfangerekspedition. Ross samler et hold til en ny ekspedition til det arktiske for at lede efter ham, men ekspeditionen tager en højst uventet drejning! Det viser sig, at dette afsidesliggende område skjuler en glemt verden af vikinger, som ikke ønsker, at verden lærer om deres eksistens og derfor kidnapper hele ekspeditionens besætning.

Aningaaq, an Inuit fisherman camping on the ice over a frozen fjord, talks through a two way radio with a dying astronaut who is stranded in space, 500 kilometers above Earth. Even though he doesn't speak English and she doesn't speak Greenlandic, they manage to have a conversation about dogs, babies, life and death.

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

Den fransk-grønlandske ‘Inuk’ er skrevet i samarbejde med den franske antropolog Jean-Michel Huctin og er den grønlandske film, der har vundet flest internationale priser nogensinde. Filmen handler om en ung mand, der vokser op i Nuuk hos sin alkoholiske mor og voldelige stedfar. Han drømmer om at danne et rockband, men sendes i stedet i familiepleje i Uummannaq i det nordvestlige Grønland. Nord for polarcirklen erstattes computerspil og høj musik med hundeslæder, sæljagt og storslåede naturscenerier. Samt venskabet med en lokal jæger, der videregiver sin visdom og lærdom til den unge knøs.

The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.

Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alsaka native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.

This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in Cape Dorset. This film was nominated for the 1963 Documentary Short Subject Oscar.

This film gives an intimate look at a way of life of which most of us have seen only glimpses. Dance was once at the heart of Yupik Eskimo spiritual and social life. It was the bridge between the ancient and the new, the living and the dead and a person's own power and the greater powers of the unseen world.