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The Strait Guys

The Strait Guys

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 2, 2022

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

60%

Original Title

The Strait Guys

Production Companies

Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion, Cine-Impuls Leipzig, Torero Film, Ethnofund Film Company, MDR, YLE, Knowledge Network

Director

Rick Minnich

Description

THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protégé, Scott, along the proposed route of the InterContinental Railway through Alaska, to the Bering Strait and onward to Russia. The “Strait Guys” endeavor to convince international governments, corporations, and indigenous tribes to green-light their $100 billion railway project, which would provide ground-based infrastructure across the continents, relieve overcrowded Pacific ports, improve global supply chains, and ease tensions between the superpowers. The US and Russia have been successfully collaborating in space for decades. Now the Strait Guys are out to prove it is also possible down here on earth.