Last night the wife and I watched Togo on Disney+

It was absolutely fantastic.

The movie is based on the real story of the 1925 Diphtheria run to Nome, in which a relay of dogsleds brought diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, from Nenana because a blizzard made it too cold and hazardous to fly the antitoxin in.

Many people might know this as the story of Balto, either because of the 1995 animated movie or the statue in Central Park.

Balto was the lead dog of the final leg of the relay and delivered the antitoxin to None, so was the dog hyped by the press.  Togo and his musher ran the longest and most dangerous stretch of the relay, covering a total of 264 miles.

It got a little dusty in the living room towards the end.

It really is an excellent movie, worth the cost of the Disney+ subscription (especially if you get it free for a year from Verizon).  I’ll be honest, between this and The Mandalorian, I think the best stuff that Disney is doing is not the mass market popcorn garbage it launches in theaters but the stuff it drops on its streaming service.