Product Details

• Actors: Dick Proenneke, Bob Swerer Sr., Bob Swerer
• Directors: Bob Swerer
• Producers: Bob Swerer
• Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Bob Swerer Productions
• Run Time: 58.0 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009PUAOC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,767 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This is the follow-up video to "Alone in the Wilderness". Join nature filmmakers Bob Swerer Sr. and Bob Swerer as they venture into the remote wilderness of Alaska to experience and film the abundant wildlife in the region 25 years later. Along with spectacular Alaskan scenery you will encounter bull moose, caribou, dahl sheep and grizzly bear. You will also meet a man by the name of Dick Proenneke, who has by himself lived in this "one man wilderness" for over 30 years. For those who dream of a true wilderness experience, in the wilds of Alaska, this is the next best thing to being there.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars National Geographic?, December 14, 2005

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G. Wood (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alaska Silence & Solitude (DVD)

This is more of the old style National Geographic (prior to the Discovery Channel type of programming), although it is of much better quality than the NG specials of my youth.

If you want to see more of Mr. Proenneke, like the first biography 20 years ago, this is not it. While it does show some footage, both old and new, the majority of the DVD is simply footage of vistas, some animals, some rain and bad winds on the lake, and an infection you get from gutting fish that have teeth.

With as many supplies as those guys flew into the bush, it does not even touch on the hard life and challenges that Mr. Proenneke has had, in the past or present...they were there for 3 weeks and cooked on a Coleman-fueled stove the whole time.

You would be better served to watch it on PBS or rent it, not buy the DVD for $20+. It simply is not worth it with no more insight into Mr. Proenneke's life and the last 20 years, than you obtain by watching Alone In The Wilderness...if even that much.

It gets 3 stars because it does show Mr. Proenneke a few minutes, and it is Alaska.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice adventure trip into Alaska, December 13, 2005

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Fred Williams (Capital City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alaska Silence & Solitude (DVD)

While this is billed as a follow-up to Alone in the Wilderness, it really seems more of the prelude to the discovery of it.

Yes this is filmed much later, but what it shows it two people that take a 3 week trip into Twin Lakes Alaska and spend some time in a trappers cabin and also meet Dick Proenneke. They also show some of the footage Dick shot many years earlier, and also hike and fish the area, showing wildlife and mountain scenes of the surrounding area.

This film will also show more of the rough weather that Alone doesn't, strong winds and heavy rains at times, also many more bugs that somehow Dick avoided. I think this is a great one to watch if you want to see more of the tougher side to living up there.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Photography, July 7, 2007

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James F. Calvert "mij trevlac" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alaska Silence & Solitude (DVD)

The wildlife photography for Silence and Solitude was commendable, but it seems that what these 2 men wanted was to just fly in and meet Dick Proenneke, shoot some film of him and the animals around Twin Lakes, and leave. Dick is a legend around there, has been for 25 years and was thinking of leaving for the lower 48 and these 2 photographers seized the moment to incorporate him into their film.
Twin Lakes has been on my places to see before I die, but without Mr. Proenneke there the place will probably be a dump before I get to see it. Dick was always cleaning up campers and hunters camp sites of all the trash they left and keeping the place pristine.