The film, "Where the River Matanuska Flows," is a four-part series of interviews that begins with a pre-colony picture of the economy and wraps up with a look back at what the experiment meant to Alaska.
Each part is about an hour long.
All four parts are set to be broadcast on Labor Day starting at 3 p.m. The film will also be broadcast as a one-hour series over four days beginning at 8 p.m. Sept. 15. Another four-hour broadcast is scheduled for Sept. 20, beginning at 7 p.m.
In Anchorage, 360 North can be found at KAKM-DT 7.3, GCI channel 15 and Dish Network 9380, 7040 or 8299.
In Mat-Su, 360 North broadcasts on GCI channel 15, on channel 302 for Matanuska Telephone Association customers, or on Dish Network channels 9380, 7040 or 8299.
"Where the River Matanuska Flows" contains many of the interviews that Juster Hill Productions, a San Francisco-based film company, used in its "Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony." That 91-minute documentary, narrated by Peter Coyote, has been shown at several film festivals around the nation.
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