Living With Wolves

After six years of living among an Idaho wolfpack, the Dutchers offer a unique look at this complex, intelligent, and misunderstood animal.

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer Jim Dutcher began producing documentary films in the 1960s. His early adventures with a camera were spent underwater, part of a Florida coast childhood. In 1985, Water, Birth, the Planet Earth, Jim's first television film, initiated a career spent with animals that range from tiny hatching sea turtles to one of the top-ranking predators, the wolf. Jim's extraordinary camera work and the trust he gains from his subjects have led audiences into places never before filmed: inside beaver lodges, down burrows to peek at wolf pups, and into the secret life of a mother mountain lion as she cares for her newborn kittens. His work includes the National Geographic special A Rocky Mountain Beaver Pond and ABC World of Discovery's two highest-rated films, Cougar: Ghost of the Rockies and Wolf: Return of a Legend.
Jim's intense personal involvement with the details of his subjects' lives and his eye for the beauty of the natural world have placed his work in a category all its own. Jim and his wife Jamie have won three Emmys, for Cinematography, Outstanding Programming and Sound Recording for their three films about The Sawtooth Pack: ABC World of Discovery's Wolf: Return of a Legend, and the Discovery Channel specials Wolves at Our Door, and Living with Wolves