Series Overview

52 Episodes

A thematically structured docuseries that moves from the geology under northern creeks to the money, machines and families that decide whether the gold ever comes out.

● Available● Pending● Sold Out

The Ground Beneath the North

4 eps

How Yukon and BC placer ground was built — glaciers, paleochannels, and the gold that came to rest.

Available

Staking the Claim

5 eps

Prospecting, claim staking, water licences and the paperwork gauntlet before a shovel ever moves.

Available

Breakup: Racing the Season

5 eps

Thaw, mud, and the frantic sprint to get a cut open when the season is only 100 days long.

Pending

Iron in the Creek

5 eps

Excavators, wash plants, sluice runs and the mechanical failures that end seasons.

Available

Cleanup & the Weigh-In

5 eps

Concentrates, shaker tables, the smelter run, and the moment the numbers are finally real.

Sold Out

Frozen Ground: The Klondike

5 eps

Dawson City, permafrost thaw mining, and families working the same creeks for four generations.

Available

British Columbia's Hidden Creeks

5 eps

The Cariboo, Atlin and Barkerville country — old rushes, new machines, tight valleys.

Available

Alaska & the Northwest Territories

5 eps

Nome beach dredges, interior cuts, and the far-flung outfits north of every road.

Pending

The Cost of Gold

5 eps

Mortgaged homes, fuel bills, reclamation, First Nations partnership and life after the season ends.

Available

One More Season

8 eps

Freeze-up, the tally, and why every one of them signs on for another run at the ground.

Available

Potential Feature Films

Two features cut from the season

Film 1: Mid-Series

Breakup

A feature-length cut of the first half of the season — staking, stripping and the scramble to get water running through the box.

Film 2: Finale

Cleanup

The back half of the season: failure, recovery, the final cleanup and what the gold really cost to get.