“Four years in the making, this amazing film invites you to run with the pack for a wolf’s eye view”

After being hunted to the brink of extinction in the United States, this majestic and misunderstood wolf is attempting the comeback of the century in North America’s beloved Yellowstone National Park.

Witness the unfolding saga of hardships and affection, losses and triumphs, and the controversy surrounding the decision to reintroduce these wolves back into the heart of the West.

Beginning with the wolves’ capture and subsequent release into Yellowstone, the story unfolding with several major events in the history of the Druid Peak Pack. The death of big Wolf 38, the original alpha male of the pack, is depicted with heart-breaking clarity. The loss of the alpha male is resolved when a Rose Creek male, Wolf 21, encounters the Druid pack in a never-before-filmed sequence of tenuous first-time introductions and eventual acceptance. Wolf 21 is the current alpha male of the pack to this day and his pack take-over stands out as one of the finest moments of wild wolf behaviour captured on film.

Discover if these icons of wildness will endure…. or if their haunting howls will be silenced forever, in Return of the Wolf.

Narrated by Michael Carroll.
Produced by Bob Landis for National Geographic.