Reynolds plays her employee, who gets bullied into marrying her so she can get a green card. Bullock plays a high-strung and domineering executive whose expired visa is getting her deported. The film stars Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. Let’s spice up the list with a ridiculous romantic comedy set in Alaska, The Proposal. With territorial wolves on the hunt, will anyone survive? The ProposalĮnough doom and gloom at the moment. Neeson, the group’s leader, tries to navigate his crew to safety but they quickly are besieged by a pack of devilishly clever wolves. The survival thriller, directed by Joe Carnahan, follows an oil rig crew’s harrowing journey after their plane crashes and they become stranded in the brutal Alaskan wilderness. The Grey pits Liam Neeson against the unforgiving Alaskan winter and the creatures who lurk within the tundra. The movie offers a surreal portrayal of Alaska’s natural beauty and how the allure of a simple lifestyle in the wilderness can be irresistible. His goal was to completely reject a material lifestyle. In 1992, McCandless abandoned his former life, excommunicated himself from family and friends, and then wandered alone into the outskirts of Denali National Park with practically no long-term supplies. The movie and book follow the true story of Christopher McCandless.
This biographical film is based on the best-selling book, “Into the Wild,” by Jon Krakauer. Into the Wild is another movie filmed and set in Alaska. The end result is a remarkable story about Alaska, bears, and one of the most controversial wildlife advocates in a generation. The documentary, directed by Werner Herzog, tells Treadwell’s controversial life and death by using scenes from 100 hours of self-shot footage and interviews with family and friends. Treadwell became famous for living alongside grizzly bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park for 13 summers until a bear killed him and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, in 2003. Grizzly Man is a riveting documentary about naturalist and wildlife conversation advocate Timothy Treadwell. We’ll begin our list with Grizzly Man, a movie set and filmed in Alaska.