Alaska Lifeboat
Alaska Lifeboat

Alaska Lifeboat

November 16, 1956 | 21 min

This "Theater of Life" series short focuses on a medical services ship that stops in the native village of Haines, Alaska. The natives are depicted as superstitious of modern medicine. In the end, however, youngster Ralph Sarlan (the only person identified by the narrator) is taken by airplane to get corrective surgery on his deformed foot.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Ralph Sarlan

Share on social media

More Like This

The Dirty War on the NHS
Alaskan Sled Dog
Bear Island
The Cost of Forever
Umnak - Aleutian Islands
Eyewitness DVD: Human Machine
Beards and Beemers
The Cradle of Storms
Denali's Wife
Moose on the Loose
Underdog
Topophilia
Bridging Our Stories
Syphilis: A Motion Picture Clinic
Building the Alaska Highway
The Alaska Wilderness Adventure
Undocumented in the Pandemic
The Russia We Lost
The Man Who Lives with Bears
Lines