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You can watch The Last Alaskans (2015) for free on Spectrum On Demand, or buy on Apple TV+.

In 1980, the U.S. government banned new human occupation in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, a protected area, home to thousands of native animals and pristine terrain spanning roughly the size of South Carolina. Currently, only a handful of families spread across seven permitted cabins are allowed to remain in the refuge. Within less than 100 years, all remaining permits will reach expiration, and there will be no human presence left.

How long can a family endure the crushing isolation of the Arctic when the government has effectively revoked their right to exist there? This intimate look at the final residents of a forbidden wilderness captures the fragile friction between human survival and federal conservation.

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