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1. Northern Exposure (1990–1995)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
A city doctor is forced to work in the remote Alaskan town of Cicely, where he encounters peculiar locals, including a former astronaut, as he adjusts to small-town life.
Stars: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum
Votes: 21,723
2. Vixen! (1968)
X | 70 min | Drama
While a naive bush pilot flies tourists to the wilderness of Northwest Canada, his nympho wife gets lonely--or does she? A Mountie, a married couple, and her biker brother drop by while hubby's away.
Director: Russ Meyer | Stars: Erica Gavin, Garth Pillsbury, Harrison Page, Jon Evans
Votes: 3,116 | Gross: $6.00M
3. Never Cry Wolf (1983)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Director: Carroll Ballard | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah
Votes: 8,789 | Gross: $29.60M
4. Arctic Air (2012–2014)
60 min | Drama
Series set in Yellowknife portrays renegade bush pilots at work and play in northern Canada.
Stars: Adam Beach, Pascale Hutton, Kevin McNulty, Stephen Lobo
Votes: 1,311
5. TaleSpin (1990–1991)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Baloo the Bear from The Jungle Book (1967) is cast as a 1930s Pacific Islands bush pilot.
Stars: Ed Gilbert, R.J. Williams, Sally Struthers, Jim Cummings
Votes: 15,957
6. Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982–1983)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The adventures of a 1930's Pacific Islands bush pilot and his companions.
Stars: Stephen Collins, Jeff MacKay, Caitlin O'Heaney, Marta DuBois
Votes: 1,885
7. The Snow Walker (2003)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Drama
A pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing in the Arctic tundra.
Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell, Kiersten Warren
Votes: 11,376
8. Alone in the Wilderness (2004 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
In 1968, one man films his attempt to build a cabin and live in the Alaskan wilderness. He goes weeks or months at a time without human contact.
Director: Dick Proenneke | Stars: Dick Proenneke, Bob Swerer Jr., Wendy Ishii, Pamela Guest
Votes: 4,022
9. Breakout (1975)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A bush pilot is hired for fifty thousand dollars to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, Randy Quaid
Votes: 4,647 | Gross: $16.00M
10. Limbo (I) (1999)
R | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In an economically devastated Alaskan town, a fisherman with a troublesome past dates a woman whose young daughter does not approve of him. When he witnesses the murder of his shady brother, he, the woman and the kid run to the wilderness.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: David Strathairn, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Vanessa Martinez, Michael Laskin
Votes: 6,392 | Gross: $2.00M
11. Captains of the Clouds (1942)
Approved | 114 min | Action, Drama, War
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,768
12. Gentle Giant (1967)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Family
A young boy befriends an orphaned cub and raises him to adult-bearhood. This fine family feature. based on Walt Morey's novel "Gentle Ben," was the basis for the "Gentle Ben" television series.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, Clint Howard
Votes: 216
13. Amazon (1990)
R | 96 min | Adventure, Drama
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and ... See full summary »
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Kari Väänänen, Robert Davi, Rae Dawn Chong, Minna Sovio
Votes: 561
14. Higher Ground (1988 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A retired F.B.I. Agent (played by country music star John Denver) becomes a bush pilot in Alaska. There, he investigates his friends murder, and drug smuggling. He also plays guitar and sings for his friends from time to time.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: John Denver, Meg Wittner, David Renan, Brandon Marsh
Votes: 210
15. Kelly (1981)
94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young girl from a broken home who is having problems in school and her personal life decides to run away and live with her father in the wilderness.
Director: Christopher Chapman | Stars: Robert Logan, Twyla-Dawn Vokins, George Clutesi, Elaine Nalee
Votes: 60
16. Mission Air (2014)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
Mother and son, Diane and Michael Ireland have just completed another successful medical mission trip to Mexico. Caring for children, delivering supplies, and of course Michael's cherished ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Norris | Stars: Gigi Rice, Carey Scott, Tom Maden, Alexandria DeBerry
Votes: 143
17. High, Wild and Free (1968)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Family
Producer/director Gordon Eastman takes his two sons on a journey to the wilds of British Columbia fishing, hunting, canoeing down miles of wild water, living with Indians and trapping beaver.
Director: Gordon Eastman | Star: Gordon Eastman
Votes: 54
18. Klondike Fury (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A neurosurgeon is thrown out of the medical profession after he performs a daring but unsuccessful surgery. He flees to Alaska, where his plane crashes in the frozen wilderness.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Lucile Fairbanks, William Henry, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 112
19. Call of the Yukon (1938)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.
Directors: B. Reeves Eason, John T. Coyle | Stars: Richard Arlen, Beverly Roberts, Lyle Talbot, Mala
Votes: 155
20. Sky Dog 4-D (2006)
12 min | Short, Comedy
The misadventures of bush pilot Jake and his trusty sidekick Charlie.
Director: Richard Needham | Stars: Ron Tough, Kathy Warren
21. Arctic Flight (1952)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Mike Wien, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy American businessman. But, in reality, he is a Russian spy on ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Wayne Morris, Lola Albright, Alan Hale Jr., Carol Thurston
Votes: 161
22. Bush Air (2010 TV Movie)
Documentary, Reality-TV
A gritty new docuseries from South Africa's wild frontier, BUSH AIR follows CC Pocock as he toughens up American pilots with his extreme bush and mountain flying course, moonlights as a ... See full summary »
Stars: Melissa Dawn Burns, Milne Pocock
23. Canada Vignettes: Wop May (1979)
5 min | Animation, Short, Biography
A film about the life and career of Canada's greatest bush pilot and his greatest adventure.
Director: Blake James | Star: Donald Brittain
Votes: 29
25. Alaska: Big America (2004 TV Movie)
TV-PG | Documentary, History
Notable events in Alaskan history.
Director: David Huntley | Star: Peter Thomas
Votes: 25
26. The Immortal Beaver (2008 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
The Immortal Beaver follows the resurrection of de Havilland Beaver, "Olivia," who has been resting quietly for years in the Arizona desert, adjacent to the infamous 'airplane bone yard' ... See full summary »
Director: David Malysheff | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith
Votes: 8
27. The Adventures of Down Under Dan (1995 Video Game)
Adventure, Comedy
Bush pilot nicknamed Down Under Dan crash lands somewhere in the Australian Outback. He now has four in-game days to meet some colorful locals and go on a quest to find some priceless blue opals.
Director: Geoff Wilkie | Stars: Paul Coombes, Graeme Fry, Lainie Grugan, Jimmy
28.
TaleSpin (1990–1991)
Episode:
Plunder & Lightning
(1990)
TV-Y | 91 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A young orphan cub with a valuable jewel hooks up with an daring bush pilot against Air Pirates determined to recover it.
Directors: Larry Latham, Robert Taylor | Stars: Charlie Adler, Jim Cummings, Pat Fraley, Ed Gilbert
Votes: 271
29.
The Forest Rangers (1963–1966)
Episode:
Interchangeable Parts
(1964)
26 min | Family
Charlie Appleby has to get new parts for his plane.
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Graydon Gould, Gordon Pinsent, Ralph Endersby, Peter Tully
30.
The Forest Rangers (1963–1966)
Episode:
The Bush Pilot
(1964)
26 min | Family
WWI flying ace Charlie Appleby scares the residents of Indian River by flying low over the town. Later Shingwauk sees a plane go down in the bush and Ranger Keeley (Graydon Gould) thinks it... See full summary »
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Graydon Gould, Michael Zenon, Gordon Pinsent, Ralph Endersby
31.
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955–1956)
Episode:
Crash in the Jungle
(1955)
Adventure
Sheena rescues bush pilot Andy Howard, when his plane crashes in the jungle. Andy was delivering film containing rare footage of a secretive native tribe that had been lensed by Clare ... See full summary »
Director: Carl K. Hittleman | Stars: Irish McCalla, Christian Drake, Henry Inigo, Manuel Vegas
32.
Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode:
L'Alaska, là où le soleil ne se couche jamais
(2011)
Documentary
A nice journey from Anchorage , Lake Cooper and Palmer (the meeting with Joe.L.Huston, the seaplane fight to Cooper Lake , no bears this day, then the flight to Palmer, Mark Austin and the ... See full summary »
Director: Damien Pourageaux | Star: Jérôme Pitorin
33.
America's National Parks (2015–2016)
Episode:
Gates of the Arctic
(2016)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Alaska is often called the last frontier: vast mountain ranges, grizzly bears hunting salmon, and mighty moose roaming through an endless wilderness. Places like Denali NP are world famous,... See full summary »
Director: Uwe Anders | Star: C.T. Taylor
Votes: 39
34.
NZZ Format (1993– )
Episode:
Frei und einsam - Buschpiloten
(2010)
30 min | Documentary
Director: Kurt Widmer | Star: Milne Pocock
35.
Outback (2018)
Episode:
The Kimberley Comes Alive
(2018)
Documentary
The Kimberley region in North West Australia is one of the world's largest wilderness areas with small but tough human populace and large number of dangerous yet beautiful animal species. ... See full summary »
Stars: Mark Coles Smith, Steve Salisbury, Mandy Watson, Albert Wiggan
Votes: 8