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I was privileged to see this while living in K-Town. This is just a great, GREAT family movie and Buffy St. Marie sings the title track. She's recently updated the tune on Youtube. You need to see/hear it!

A store called 'Rondy' has this on DVD- stop right now and go buy this movie!!! Go on- you won't be disappointed. Long Live George Attla!

I remember watching this movie when I was just a kid. My brothers and myself must have watched this show at least 3 times, it was that good. What was more of a treat for us was that we sat next too the real George Attla on a bus cruising down 5th Ave in beautiful downtown Anchorage. If I can remember correctly, My brother, Vince, recognized him first. We surrounded this GREAT guy in the back of a People Mover bus and had a fantastic time talking with him. My brothers (Vince and Eric) would remember the conversation alot better than i could, I'm the youngest. When we were parting ways, we made it a point too shake this mans hand! He actually walked with that limp that you saw in the movie. One of the GREAT experiences of my youth......It's was truely an awesome experience!

Scott D. Devlin

I saw this film in a Boulder, Colorado art house theater in the early 1980's. At that time this movie was simply called "Attla". I am not certain as to when or why that the name of this movie was changed. I was very touched with its authentic depiction of Alaskan native life. Two of the scenes that stand out in my memory are the native fish trap sequence and Slim Pickens driving an antique snowmobile. I am truly disappointed that it is apparently not available on VHS or DVD. The true life story of George Attla deserves a better fate. I am left wondering if the midlife change of name of this film may be a factor in its failure to gain a following among those of us who saw it once and would like to see it again. It took some searching on my part to determine in fact that indeed its name had been changed to "Spirit of the Wind".

One of three American entries that year at Cannes, along with "China Syndrome" and "Norma Rae," it is a shame it has never been released on VHS or DVD. I know the people this movie is about. It is authentic, as much about the people and the land as it is about a unique man some say is the greatest dog musher who ever lived.

I haven't seen this movie in 25 years since it was on cable TV.

Good acting and a good soundtrack and a compelling story of a polio stricken Athabascan boy and later man finding his calling as an Sled Dog racer.

I love the scene where he falls off the sled and his lead sled dog pulls the team around and comes back to him. Now thats good training and loyalty. That scene almost made me cry as a kid.

A good movie about going beyond a disability (polio i think), the Athabascan culture and the Iditarod dog sled race.

I liked it a lot and wouldn't mind seeing it on DVD.