Wolves at Our Door

Wolves at Our Door (1997)

Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Not Jim and Jamie Dutcher. Raising a pack of gray wolves from puppies, they were able to film their growth, development, and changing behavior. Wolves at Our Door, the sequel to Wolf: Return of a Legend, explores these beautiful animals as they live in America's Northwest. Excellent footage captures the wolves playing with each other and with the Dutchers and allows us a glimpse into another world, one that's not so scary after all. You're sure to see these marvelous beasts differently after watching Wolves at Our Door. --Rob Lightner

Date of release
1997-10-27
TMDB
8.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
52m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Jim Dutcher

Casting

Interesting facts

Wolves at Our Door is a 1997 documentary film about the "Sawtooth Pack", a group of wolves in the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho, United States. The film was produced and directed by Jim Dutcher and first aired on The Discovery Channel. It is narrated by Richard Kiley. A two–hour sequel, Living with Wolves, was released in 2005.

Production

In 1990, filmmaker, Jim Dutcher, began observing a pack of wolves in the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. Later joined by his wife, Jamie Dutcher, the couple hand-raised and bottle fed pups before releasing them within a larger encampment. Having gained their trust, the Dutchers were able to film and record the wolves in close proximity. Using both visual and audio recordings, they documented the pack's hierarchy, vocalizations, and behavior.

Initially starting with one pair of adults, Makuyi and Akai, the pack grew to include:

Akai, adult, original alpha male, was mid–rank from his home in Minnesota

Makuyi, adult, mated with Akai, from a wolf shelter in Montana

Motaki, (Blackfoot for "shadow"), original omega female, killed by a mountain lion

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