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Released
1974 · FILM

The White Dawn

A True Story of an Artic Adventure.

Directed by
Runtime
110 min
AdventureDramaHistory

Synopsis

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Douglas StewartShot by Michael ChapmanScored by Henry Mancini

Also known as

  • Die weiße Dämmerungde
  • Alba di ghiaccioit

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