Watch The Big Picture - Top of the World

Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States. From the U.S. Army's THE BIG PICTURE television series, 1950-1975. In this issue, THE BIG PICTURE examines the vitally strategic importance of the Far North. Travelling pictorially from Alaska to the Northwest, across the vast reaches of Canada, and Greenland in the east, it traces the hemispheric defense and terrain which stretches unbroken by national boundaries--across "The Top of the World."

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