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Featuring documentarians Jim and Jaime Dutcher, this release combines LIVING WITH WOLVES, the popular Discovery Channel documentary about the complex, organized, and often heroic lives of wolves, with the Emmy Award-winning WOLVES AT OUR DOOR, in which the Dutchers raise a pack of wolves themselves, thereby gaining unprecedented access to the innermost lives of these noble animals.


"THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S TOP-SELLING DOCUMENTARY! For centuries, wolves have been characterized as bloodthirsty beasts, tormentors of ranchers and the bane of helpless livestock. Determined to overcome this misconception, filmmakers Jamie and Jim Dutcher - creators of the Emmy-winning Wolves at Our Door - spent six years in a tented camp in the wilderness of Idaho, living with a pack of wolves, listening to them and earning their trust.

Living With Wolves: Join the Dutchers as they share their extraordinary experiences living with the Sawtooth Wolf Pack in this Emmy-nominated film. Exclusive footage reveals the innermost details of life in the pack - its unique social structure, how wolf cubs are raised within the group and how these powerful creatures interact with man. Overcoming forest fires, marauding mountain lions and sub-zero winters, the Dutchers and these elusive, intelligent animals share the heartwarming and unique partnership of human and predator.

Wolves at Our Door is the winner of 2 Emmy Awards. This heartwarming tale follows Jim and Jamie Dutcher as they raise a pack of gray wolves and document these affectionate creatures' most intimate behaviors. By bottle-feeding them as puppies and being a constant presence in their lives, the Dutchers gained unprecedented acceptance into the world of these great canines. The wolves' reputation as savage beasts proves to be unfounded. And the Dutchers' closeness to this pack allows you to see intimate scenes of the wolves playing, courting and caring for their young."

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This heartwarming tale follows Jim and Jamie Dutcher as they raise a pack of grey wolves and document these affectionate creatures' most intimate behaviors. By bottle feeding them as puppies and being a constant presence in their lives, the Dutchers gained unprecedented acceptance into the world of these great canines. The wolves' reputation as savage beasts proves to be unfounded. And the Dutchers' closeness to this pack allows you to see intimate scenes of the wolves playing, courting, and caring for their young.

You'll meet the wolf family's leader, or alpha male, Kamutz; its second-in-command, Matzi; and its outcast, or omega wolf, Lakota. As you watch the Sawtooth Wolf Pack grow and develop over time, you'll witness behavior never before captured on film:

dominance/submission
facial communication
vocalization
hunting strategy
pack hierarchy

Because no human being has ever been accepted as a member of a wolf pack, the Dutchers unique position with the Sawtooth Wolf Pack affords us a vision of this animal never seen on film.

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