Hollywod's View of Canada

The Klondike and the Frozen North

• The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915), based on a poem by Robert W. Service
• The Spell of the Yukon (1916)
• The Law of the Yukon (1920), based on a poem by Robert W. Service
• Nanook of the North (1922) - though often hailed as the first documentary, many of the scenes in this classic were staged
• Perils of the Yukon (1922)
• Lure of the Yukon (1924)
• Yukon Jake (1924) - Ben Turpin comedy
• The Flame of the Yukon (1926)
• The Call of the Kondike (1926)
• The Heart of the Yukon (1927)
• The Grip of the Yukon (1928)
• The Trail of '98 (1929), based on a story by Robert W. Service
• The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933) - W.C. Fields parody of Yukon melodramas
• The Call of the Wild (1935) - Jack London's classic tale
• Call of the Yukon (1938)
• North of the Yukon (1939)
• Queen of the Yukon (1940)
• The Yukon Patrol (1942)
• Belle of the Yukon (1944) - Gypsy Rose Lee, Randolph Scott, and Dinah Shore singing "Sleighride in July"
• The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945), the Droopy Dog version of the poem by Robert W. Service
• Dumbbell of the Yukon (1946) - Donald Duck stars
• Trail of the Yukon (1949)
• Call of the Klondike (1950)
• Yukon Manhunt (1951)
• The Far Country (1954) James Stewart herds cattle to Dawson
• Yukon Vengeance (1954)
• Death Hunt (1981) - Charles Bronson as the Mad-Trapper
• Never Cry Wolf (1983) - based on Farley Mowat's book
• White Fang (1991) - another Jack London story
• Map of the Human Heart (1992)
- Inuit boy meets English map-maker, falls for Metis girl, and fights in WWII
• Blood of the Hunter (1995)

Quintuplet Mania

• The Country Doctor (1936)
• Reunion (1936)
• Five of a Kind (1938)

The Wild, Wild (North)West

• Cameron of the Royal Mounted (1921), features Mounties kissing women and horses
• The Raiders (1921)
• The Conflict (1921) starring Priscilla Dean and Herbert Rawlinson (filmed near Cranbrook on the Bull River, BC), about competing logging companies
• Steele of the Royal Mounted (1925)
• Glenister of the Mounted (1926)
• Red Riders of Canada (1928)
• Rose Marie (1928) - Joan Crawford stars
• Rough Romance (1930) - a logging mystery
• Rose Marie (1936) - Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in the movie that brought singing Mounties to the screen, and generated a stream of imitations
• King of the Royal Mounted (1936)
• The Country Beyond (1936) - yet another Mountie movie
• Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937) - James Newill played Renfrew; followed by: Fighting Mad (1939), Crashing Thru (1939), Yukon Flight (1940), Sky Bandits (1940), Murder on the Yukon (1940), Danger Ahead (1940)
• Susannah of the Mounties (1939) - Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott
• Northwest Mounted Police (1940) - Texas Ranger Gary Cooper teams up with the Mounties against Louis Riel
• Hudson's Bay (1940) - fictionalized early history of Canada
• Fresh Hare (1942) - Mountie Elmer Fudd pursues Bugs Bunny
• Springtime in the Rockies (1942) - Carmen Miranda musical, with Betty Grable
• Northern Pursuit (1943) - Mountie Errol Flynn battles Nazi spies
• Northwest Hounded Police (1946) - Droopy Dog appears as Sergeant McPoodle
• Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (1948) - a 12 part serial involving Genghis Khan's lost treasure and the building of the Alaska-Canada highway
• Canadian Pacific (1949) - Randolph Scott surveys the railroad and fights off nasty trappers
• Northwest Territory (1951)
• Gene Autry and The Mounties (1951)
• Blue Canadian Rockies (1952) - Gene Autry again
• Pony Soldier (1952) - Tyrone Power joins the Mounties
• Saskatchewan (1954) - Alan Ladd in the Mounties
• Rose Marie (1954)- Ann Blyth and Howard Keel star
• The Canadians (1961) - yet another Mountie movie
• "The Bullwinkle Show" (1961) - features "The Adventures of Dudley Do-Right", Mountie Dudley Do-Right battles Snidely Wiplash
• Dudley Do-Right (1999) - remake of the cartoon with Brendan Fraser

War Time Ally

• Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941, United Kingdom) - a Nazi U-boat crew shipwrecked in Canada try to flee to the neutral United States - an Academy Award winning classic
• Captains of the Clouds (1942) - bush-pilot Jimmy Cagney joins the War effort
• Northern Pursuit (1943) - Mountie Errol Flynn battles Nazi spies
• The Yellow Canary (1943) - spies in Halifax
• Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Claw (1944) - Sherlock visits Canada in wartime
  
• Paratrooper (1953) - Alan Ladd pretends to be Canadian in order to join the RAF and forget the flying accident that killed his friend (Top Gun borrowed heavily from this movie)
• Fiend Without a Face (1957) - invisible monsters created near an American airbase in Manitoba (the mountain ranges look a lot like California though) provokes resentment amongst the locals
• The Devil's Brigade (1968) - a crack Canadian outfit and American misfits learn to fight together
• Map of the Human Heart (1992)
- Inuit boy meets English map-maker, falls for Metis girl, and fights in WWII

Religious Quebec

• I Confess (1953) - a murderer confesses to a priest (Montgomery Clift) who is himself suspected by the police, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Agnes of God (1985) - a young nun gives birth leading to a conflict between a psychiatrist and the Mother Superior

Modern Times

• Some Girls (1989) - visiting prospective in-laws in Canada
• Narrow Margin (1990) - the perfect place to hide from the Mafia
• Canadian Bacon (1995) - war between the U.S. and Canada

Filmed in Canada

• Hearts Aflame (1923) starring Anna Q. Nillson, based on novel "Timber" by Harold Titus about forest fires and their consequences
• The Alaskan (1924) starring Anna May Wong
• Mystery, Alaska (1999)
• Speaking of Sex (2001)
• "Legends of the Fall"
• "The Silent Partner" starring Mary Astor
• "Where the North Wind Blows"
• "River of No Return" starring Marilyn Monroe

see also: distinctly Canadian Movies
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