The Strait Guys
Jun 02, 2022 | IMDB 6
99 min Watch NowDocumentary
THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protégé, Scott, along the proposed route of the InterContinental Railway through Alaska, to the Bering Strait and onward to Russia. The “Strait Guys” endeavor to convince international governments, corporations, and indigenous tribes to green-light their $100 billion railway project, which would provide ground-based infrastructure across the continents, relieve overcrowded Pacific ports, improve global supply chains, and ease tensions between the superpowers. The US and Russia have been successfully collaborating in space for decades. Now the Strait Guys are out to prove it is also possible down here on earth.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
Faces Places
Cutting Corners
Report from the Aleutians
First Descent
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
The Freight Train
Rolling the Freight
Opening a New Frontier
Last of the Giants
End of an Era
Mainline U.S.A.
Eiffel's Race to the Top
Target... Earth?
RER B
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
Grizzly Man
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Built for Mars: The Perseverance Rover
Braguino
SIMILAR MOVIES
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 1998
Alaska... Here, in this vast and spectacularly beautiful land teeming with abundant wildlife, discover the "Spirit of the Wild." Experience it in the explosive calving of glaciers, the celestial fires of the Aurora Borealis. Witness it in the thundering stampede of caribou, the beauty of the polar bear and the stealthful, deadly hunt of the wolf pack.Faces Places
IMDB 7.7 | Jun , 2017
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.Cutting Corners
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2021
With building collapses happening around the country, activists band together to confront the real estate developers and hold them accountable for the construction destruction, lives they have destroyed, and deaths they have caused.Report from the Aleutians
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 1943
A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II. The film opens with a map showing the strategic importance of the island, and the thrust of the 1942 Japanese offensive into Midway and Dutch Harbor. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.First Descent
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 2005
First Descent is a 2005 documentary film about snowboarding and its beginning in the 1980s. The snowboarders featured in this movie (Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata, Terje Haakonsen, Hannah Teter and Shaun White with guest appearances from Travis Rice) represent three generations of snowboarders and the progress this young sport has made over the past two decades. Most of the movie was shot in Alaska.Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
IMDB 5.8 | Dec , 2016
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov.The Freight Train
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1954
EB Films presents a documentary on the life of the freight train in America.Rolling the Freight
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1947
Film on the movement of material from the Chicago and Northwestern System.Opening a New Frontier
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1955
A documentary outlining the railroad's roll in expanding the nation.Last of the Giants
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1959
A Union Pacific production outlining the Big Boy locomotive and the history of the last great steam engine to rule the railsEnd of an Era
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1962
A documentary on the passing of the steam locomotive as the primary means of transportation in the United StatesMainline U.S.A.
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1957
A documentary on the railroads of America produced by the Association of American RailroadsEiffel's Race to the Top
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 2023
Behind the iconic Eiffel Tower lies the story of an incredible challenge to erect a thousand-foot tower that went far beyond a design competition, and marked a major turning point in engineering history. It was the beginning of radical transformation where iron was pitted against stone, engineering against architecture, and modern design against ancients. Press campaigns, lobbying, public conferences, denigration of opposing projects, bragging about big names - all participants engaged in a fierce battle without concession. Using 3D recreations, official sources (reports, letters, drawings...) and intimate archives obtained from their descendants, this film will bring to life this vertical race through a fresh and visual way to mark the centenary of Eiffel death.Target... Earth?
IMDB 4 | Jul , 1980
Really strange documentary of Wheeler Dixon production quality on the Tunguska Event and the possibility of it happening again causing an apocalypse (basically a meteor scare film) sprinkled with UFO conspiracy kooks, and other 'professionals', riddled with stock footage of all kinds, freaky moog music and sound fx, a Dr. Who rip-off end theme, Victor Buono as Homer the Archivist, a philosophical history recorder in a space ship with a HAL 9000 type talking computer named Ino, there's also another space ship with Egyptian looking aliens girls with pasties and see-thru blouses.RER B
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 2017
Alice Diop's enchanting short film, a work of transcendent transformation, shows how the rough lines of Drancy station are immortalized in watercolor by the French artist Benoît Peyrucq. A tribute to a location fraught with historical and contemporary poignancy.The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 1896
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.Grizzly Man
IMDB 7.5 | Jul , 2005
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one man's attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1927
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.Built for Mars: The Perseverance Rover
IMDB 8 | Feb , 2021
BUILT FOR MARS: THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER goes behind the scenes at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to follow the birth of the Perseverance rover.Braguino
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 2017
In the middle of the Siberian taiga, 450 miles from the nearest village, live two families : the Braguines and the Kilines. Not a single road leads there. A long trip on the Ienissei River, first by boat, then by helicopter, is the only way to reach Braguino. Self-sufficient, both families live there according to their own rules and principles. In the middle of the village: a barrier. The two families refuse to speak. In the river sits an island, where another community is being built : that of the children. Free, unpredictable, wild. Stemming from the fear of the other, that of wild beasts, and the joy procured by the immensity of the forest, unravels a cruel tale in which tensions and fear give shape to the geography of an ancestral conflict.