15 Best TV Shows About Alaska You Need to Watch
If you are looking for shows that are set in Alaska, you are in the right place. We have some live-action shows as well as some reality shows. So, if you are looking for your next Alaskan watch, you are in the right place as these are the best shows about or set in Alaska you can watch.
Check them out below.
Alaska Daily (2022)
Eileen (Hilary Swank) is a journalist from New York who moves to Alaska for a clean start and who looks for redemption both personally and professionally after joining a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage.
In the City of Anchorage, she works with another colleague at the newspaper, Roz Friendly, to complete and release reports on a crisis known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous person Crisis in the state of Alaska.
Alaska: The Last Frontier (2011– )
The show documents the extended Kilcher family, descendants of Swiss immigrants and Alaskan pioneers, Yule and Ruth Kilcher, at their homestead 11 miles outside of Homer. By living without modern heating, the clan chooses to subsist by farming, hunting and preparing for the long winters.
The Kilcher family are relatives of the singer Jewel (with Atz being her father), who has appeared on the show.
Life Below Zero (2013– )
The show follows people living in the remote areas of Alaska, surviving off the land, making money through various ventures, as well as dealing with the many different challenges that come with living so remotely in such an unforgiving environment.
Alaskan Bush People (2014– )
Filmed on location in Alaska near Copper Center, Hoonah, and Chichagof Island, with later seasons filmed on location in Okanogan County, Washington, it follows the extended Brown family’s life.
Flying Wild Alaska (2011–2012)
The show features the Tweto family from Unalakleet, Alaska who run the Alaska airline Era Alaska. They operate the hub operations from Unalakleet. The show also features other segments from their bases in Utqiagvik (Barrow), Deadhorse, and other places.
Gold Rush (2010– )
The series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as well as in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Bering Sea Gold (2012– )
The show follows boats equipped with various setups to achieve gold mining in a summertime, cold northern latitude, shallow water, and ocean environment. The fleet typically consists of a sluicing apparatus, a means of paydirt collection (dredge), and a cold-water-diving life support system.
Conflict issues include choppy seas, poor underwater visibility, inconsistent fuel delivery, personnel issues, mining location rights, sufficient paydirt discovery, diver safety, and ocean-damaged equipment failures. Each season of episodes follows the current fleet of dredges.
Ice Road Truckers (2007–2017)
It features the activities of drivers who operate trucks on seasonal routes crossing frozen lakes and rivers, in remote Arctic territories in Canada and Alaska. Seasons three to six also featured Alaska’s improved but still remote Dalton Highway, which is mainly snow-covered solid ground.
Klondike (2014)
Traveling west from New York City, friends Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein head to Yukon, Canada, when they learn of the Klondike Gold Rush. The two men must not only contend with harsh conditions and unpredictable weather as they look to profit from a mining claim near Dawson City, but also find themselves threatened by desperate and dangerous individuals who share their pursuit of riches.
Ghost Wars (2017–2018)
Ghost Wars takes place in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces. The series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer, who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he is to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that is threatening to destroy them all.
Edge of Alaska (2014–2017)
Traditions clash with the changes brought by modernity in McCarthy, Alaska. An isolated town that had its moment of glory during the gold rush, but is now home to just 40 mavericks, adventurers and agitating inhabitants.
The Alaska Kid (1993)
The Alaska Kid is a 1991 German-Russian-Polish television miniseries, based on Jack London’s 1912 short story anthology, Smoke Bellew. It was directed by James Hill.
First broadcast on the German ZDF network in December 1993, the series stars Mark Pillow as “The Alaska Kid” Jack Bellew, a newspaper reporter on his beat during the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska.
Tougher in Alaska (2008– )
Starring long-time Alaska resident Geo Beach, the program explored the dangerous and extraordinary efforts put forth by Alaskans to perform jobs and provide services in such a remote, large, rugged, and hostile place.
Slednecks (2014)
Slednecks is an American reality television series about a group of friends living in Wasilla, Alaska that premiered on MTV on October 30, 2014. The show’s title is borrowed from a slang term referring to “rednecks” who live in snowy climes, like Alaska.
Northern Exposure (1990–1995)
In the show, Rob Morrow played New York City native Joel Fleischman, a recently graduated physician who is sent to practice in Anchorage, Alaska, for several years to repay the state of Alaska for underwriting his medical education.
However, much to his chagrin, he is assigned to the much smaller and remote town of Cicely, which is in need of a general practitioner. Originally the show focused on Fleischman’s fish-out-of-water experiences in rural Alaska, but as it progressed, it became more of an ensemble show, focusing on various other Cicely residents.
