ALASKA FAR AWAY
"The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony"
Directed by Joan Juster
'Alaska Far Away' tells the story of the Matanuska Colonization Project of 1935, a creative and controversial New Deal program that relocated 202 families devastated by the Great Depression, taking them from the upper Midwest to the Matanuska Valley in Alaska to start an experimental farming colony.
Cast
Peter Coyote
Narrator
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Who would enjoy this
Recommended for
- ✓people who enjoy learning through film
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- –those seeking nonstop action
- –those looking for narrative fiction
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