Raising the Mammoth (2000)

A scientist wants to recover some mammoth DNA to clone a live mammoth So he finds a buried mammoth in the vast rock hard permafrost of Siberia digs it out in the middle of a blizzard and flies it home Of course he needed a little help So he befriended an arctic nomad who knows ever rill rock pond and stream in the entire region As background to the quest National Geographic relates the migratory history of the mammoth family