The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony
2008 · 1h 31m · Documentary
Genres: Documentary
'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…
Director: Paul Hill, Joan Juster
Writers: Jim Fox, Paul Hill, Joan Juster
Cinematography: Carisa Kaplan
Editor: Mark Lipman