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Wolf Documentaries

Post by SolitaryHowl » Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:42 pm

Discuss any wolf documentaries here; give your opinion on wolf documentaries, and perhaps critique them.

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List Of Wolf Documentaries

Imax Wolves
David Attenbourough Wildlife Specials: Episode 6 (Wolf: Legendary Outlaw)
Wolves at Our Door
Living with Wolves
The Wolfman
White Falcon, White Wolf
Valley of the Wolves
Growing Up: Wolf
The Global Wolf
Wolves of Yellowstone
Canadian Geographic: Coastal Wolves
Wolves in Paradise
Wolves of Labrador

EDIT: This is more of a generalized thread regarding wolf documentaries. If you wish to discuss a particular documentary in fuller detail, feel free to start a topic about it.
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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by Canidae » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:20 pm

One of my favorite wolf documentaries is Living with Wolves, by Jim and Jamie Dutcher.

Have any of you seen it? =) It's quite long, about two hours minus commercial time.
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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by Isfe » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:34 pm

Canidae wrote:One of my favorite wolf documentaries is Living with Wolves, by Jim and Jamie Dutcher.

Have any of you seen it? =) It's quite long, about two hours minus commercial time.

I saw that documentary!
It's the one with Kamots and Wyakin and everyone, right? And where they release them into the wild?
It was great -- we watched it in our Biology class in October.
And then we had to do a prompt on it... xD
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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by Canidae » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:38 pm

Isfe wrote:
Canidae wrote:One of my favorite wolf documentaries is Living with Wolves, by Jim and Jamie Dutcher.

Have any of you seen it? =) It's quite long, about two hours minus commercial time.

I saw that documentary!
It's the one with Kamots and Wyakin and everyone, right? And where they release them into the wild?
It was great -- we watched it in our Biology class in October.
And then we had to do a prompt on it... xD

Yes it's the documentary with those wolves, but the Sawtooth pack was never released into the wild. At the end, they're transferred to another wolf sanctuary run by the Nez Perce tribe. And you're lucky to have watched it in school, I wish we watched interesting stuff in my biology class. xD
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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by Isfe » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:03 pm



Oh yeah, now I remember. Thanks!
It was a good documentary, but they were a little outdated because they used rank names like alpha, beta, and omega.

I have a coffee-table book, Spirit of the Wolf, by Shaun Ellis (that British guy that lived with a wild wolf pack [for stufy purposes, I think]) with pictures by Monty Sloan.
It also uses things like alphas/betas/omegas, but it has a lot of good info, otherwise.

We're watching Darwin-related movies now. It's at least better than taking notes and stuff, but even though it's an advanced class (most highschool freshies take IPS, which is intro to physical science), we're behind for some reason. At least one other class is doing viruses/bacteria. D:
I usually doodle during movies, anyway. :P

and to stay on topic...

I also remember seeing a National Geographic special on dire wolves, which was cool, too.
And there was a sabertoothed cat one right after.
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Post by -x-Zaroque-x- » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:54 am

Yeah, I've heard of that one,

Have you heard of White Falcon, White Wolf? I'm not sure whos it by but its amazing!
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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by Canidae » Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:17 pm

Lyenza wrote:Yeah, I've heard of that one,

Have you heard of White Falcon, White Wolf? I'm not sure whos it by but its amazing!

That documentary is part of the Nature series on PBS, and I agree it's amazing, I loved that one.
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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by xX---Sweetfire---Xx » Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:36 pm

I love wolf documentaries! I don't usally remeber their names, but I enoy them greatly.
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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by pawnee » Fri Mar 19, 2010 5:26 pm

I really enjoyed In the Valley of the Wolves...it focused more on the actual Yellowstone wolves without any human involvment and had some intresting footage. The part where the two wolf packs fight is neat to watch because its the only footage of such an event.

The national geographic ones are pretty well done. I'm not really a fan of the Hunted Hunted series...sure their intresting but it kind of anthromorphizes the attacks. Like you can't speculate on what happened or could have, all you have are facts of past events. I found the show had too many 'what ifs' and not enough evidence.

Growing Up wolf was cute! It was on animal planet.

some other less well known ones are The Global Wolf and one on Italian wolves.
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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by jaguartail » Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:10 pm

i have never seen a wolf documentary,and probably never will,as i often find documentaries boring.

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Post by Canidae » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:01 pm

I used to have a whole slew of wolf documentaries recorded on my DVR, but there was some weird glitch and it erased everything. :/

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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by pawnee » Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:22 pm

I like watching documentaries....its like a mini story into the life of another organism on earth. Besides its educational and shows diffrent viewpoints too.

BBC has a very good documentary on wolves. It features snippets of wolves from around the world.

One of the first shows about wolves I saw was a Canadian film grant one...I don't know what its called but a scene with a hunter and a researcher finding wolves always stuck with me for some reason.

In Praise of Wolves by R.D Lawrence is an older one, but its intresting in the fact that the author was an avid wolf enthusiast and had his own captive pack.
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Post by Canidae » Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:28 pm

Ohhh darn, I can't remember of that one documentary by Nature that focused on Ernest Thompson Seton and his mission to eliminate Lobo and Blanca.

I found it to be a very moving documentary though. =) And it was educational too. When I read The New Wolves by Rick Bass and came across the section of the book that discussed Seton and Lobo, I found that I already knew a lot of what Bass talked about.
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Post by -x-Zaroque-x- » Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:33 am

I cant find many wolf documentrys, I like the BBC ones though, I agree, they are really welldone and they have actually taken tiime on them and studyed well!
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Re: Wolf Documentaries

Post by caninesrock » Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:41 am

I like Living With Wolves, Wolves at Our Door, the imax documentary called just "Wolves", and the Wolves of Yellowstone documentaries.

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