Summaries
An outcast Husky risks his life with other sled dogs to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
A half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero when an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. He leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get medical supplies. The film is based on a true story which inspired the Iditarod dog sled race.
A canine outcast who is half-wolf half-dog lives in Nome, Alaska 1925 and is teased by all the dogs in the town except for Jenna, a pure bred Husky, Boris, a Russian goose, and Muk and Luk, two polar bears. He then gets the chance to be a hero when a case of diphtheria breaks out and the dog team gets lost. He then sets out on a crazy journey with his goose friend Boris and Muk and Luk the polar bears. Jenna then decides to go looking for them.She then finds them and helps them out some she then gets injured and Balto tells her to go back with Muk and Luk he tells Boris to help guid Muk and Luk he then finds the sled team and helps guide them on another crazy journey. He then gets the medicine back to the children of Nome and then becomes the town hero and is loved by all.
Set in 1925 Nome, Alaska, Balto is a half-husky wolf dog, who is an outcast due to his heritage, his only friends is his adopted father Boris, a snow goose and two polar bears Muk and Luk, they live in the outskirts of Nome. Balto still feels out of place and he is constantly bullied by Steele, an arrogant malamute snow dog and Nome's so-called hero. Balto soon finds solace in Jenna a kind-hearted red husky and a young girl named Rosy. Another issue arises, when all of the children, including Rosy get sick with diphtheria and harsh weather conditions causes delays for the vaccine to be shipped. Balto notices the situation becoming dire and concerned about Rosy's fate, he sets out to help the sled team which is lead by Steele to get the vaccine delivered, after they get lost in the harsh conditions and the musher is knocked out, causing Balto to lead the team back to Nome. Steele is determined to make sure Balto doesn't make it back to Nome by sabotaging the trail he created. Along the way, Balto learns to embrace his half-wolf heritage as his greatest strength and he becomes renewed with hope on saving the children.
Inspired by the true story, Balto follows the wolf-husky hero who helped with the Alaskan Serum Run of 1925. In the face of a town who outcast him in Nome, and dogs who don't treat him as one of their own, Balto will soon heed the call to adventure when the Serum Run goes awry, and must save the day or else the children of Nome will die.
The heroic true story of a husky wolf leads a team of sled dogs through challenging conditions to get life-changing medicine to an Alaskan town to save them from a deadly disease. In a race against time, the husky wolf does everything that he can to get noticed.
Synopsis
In New York City, an elderly woman and her granddaughter are walking through Central Park, looking for a memorial statue. As they seat themselves for a rest, the grandmother recounts a story about Nome, Alaska. In 1925, a wolfdog named Balto (Kevin Bacon of Footloose) lives on the outskirts of Nome with his adoptive father, a Russian snow goose named Boris, and two polar bears, Muk and Luk. Balto is ridiculed by dogs and humans alike for his half-breed heritage. His only friends in town are a young girl named Rosy and her red husky Jenna whom Balto has a crush on. He is challenged by the town's favorite sled dog Steele, a fierce and arrogant Alaskan Malamute, and his teammates, Nikki, Kaltag, and Star. That night, Rosy and all the children in Nome are stricken with diphtheria. Severe winter weather conditions prevent medicine from being brought by air or sea from Anchorage, and the closest rail line ends in Nenana. After authorization to transport the antitoxin by rail is given by the Governor of Alaska in Juneau, a dog race is held to determine the best-fit dogs for a sled dog team to get the medicine. Balto enters and wins, but is disqualified after Steele exposes his wolf-dog heritage. The team departs that night with Steele in the lead and picks up the medicine successfully. On return, deteriorating conditions leave the disoriented team stranded at the base of a steep slope with the musher knocked unconscious. When the news reaches Nome, Balto sets out in search of them with Boris, Muk, and Luk. On the way, a huge grizzly bear attacks them, but Jenna, who followed their tracks, intervenes. The bear pursues Balto out onto a frozen lake, where it falls through the ice and drowns. Muk and Luk save Balto from a similar fate but Jenna is injured and cannot continue. Balto instructs Boris and the polar bears to take her back home while he continues alone. Balto eventually finds the team, but Steele refuses his help and attacks him until he loses his balance and falls off a cliff. Balto takes charge of the team, but they lose their way again since Steele had sabotaged the trail by creating false markers. Balto falls while attempting to save the medicine from falling down a cliff. Back in Nome, Jenna explains Balto's mission to the other dogs as Steele returns, lying that the team including Balto, is dead. Jenna sees through his deception and she assures Balto will return with the medicine. Using a trick Balto showed her earlier, Jenna places broken colored glass bottles on the outskirts of town and shines a lantern on them to simulate the lights of an aurora, hoping it will help guide Balto home. When Balto regains consciousness, he is ready to lose hope, until a large white wolf appears. Noticing the intact medicine crate nearby, he realizes that his part-wolf heritage is a strength and not a weakness, and drags the medicine back up the cliff to the waiting team. Balto's advanced senses filter out the false markers Steele had created. After encountering further challenges through an ice bridge, an avalanche, and an ice cavern, and losing only one vial, Balto and the sled team finally return to Nome. A pity-playing Steele is abandoned by the other dogs who realize the truth about him. Reunited with Jenna and his friends, Balto earns respect from both the dogs and the humans. He visits a cured Rosy, who thanks him for saving her. Back in the present, the elderly woman and her granddaughter finally find the statue of Balto and she explains that the Iditarod trail covers the same path that Balto and his team took from Nenana to Nome. The woman, who is actually Rosy, repeats the same line "Thank you, Balto. I would have been lost without you". She walks off to join her granddaughter and her Siberian Husky Blaze. The Balto statue stands proudly in the sunlight.