A prehistoric spin on the classic tale of foes to friends, the movie Alpha shows the strength and determination of one boy in his struggle to survive. The movie is set in the upper Paleolithic time period, or around 20,000 years ago. The main character Keda is separated from his tribe and goes through many trials and struggles on his journey to find home. Whilst on this journey he encounters a lone wolf, who at first caused issues for Keda but over the course of the movie they become friends and depend on one another to survive the journey. Much of this movie shows the presence of man vs. Nature, a topic that has previously been done in more modern-day time periods. As the time period is relatively a long time ago, the depiction of how the tribe members dressed and lived is quite accurate based on ancient grave sites and burials. "The persons were apparently adorned with a large number of pendants made from the frontal teeth of Bos, Bison priscus, Cervus elaphus and Capreolus capreolus" (Porr and Alt 2006, p.396). In addition to how the tribe members adorned themselves with animal fragments, their ideology of using all parts of the animal is accurately depicted within the film due to their respect for the animals they hunted for food. One of the biggest aspects of the movie however, is the relationship between Keda and the wolf he befriends and names Alpha. Within the movie Keda originally is wary and afraid of Alpha as he does not trust that Alpha won't attack him. They grow to become close companions, which is historically accurate regarding the domestication of dogs and wolves. It was found that wolves were the first animals to have a mutualistic and domesticated relationship with humans, which in turn led to the domestication of dogs (Bergstrom et al. 2020, p.557). Looking at the archaeological evidence found in fossils, it shows how the bone structure and genetics of prehistoric wolves attests to a close relationship with humans (Bergstrom et al. 2020, p.557). There has been evidence found that showed one of the earliest domestications of wolves occurred 33,000 years ago (Ovodov et al. 2011, p.1). Alpha demonstrates how the relationship between wolves and humans was similar to those now of humans and dogs, with the difference being how wolves and dogs contributed to helping their humans with hunting other animals. In today's age this is still something dogs do, but rather they track the animal down once it's already been killed, whereas wolves may have contributed more to the kill itself alongside the human. Overall, the movie Alpha gives an accurate and engaging story of one's will to survive and how two companions grew from enemies to friends. The story itself was incredibly inspiring, and the historical accuracy of it only makes the topic more interesting to continue learning about. Each aspect within the film gave more knowledge to the viewer, and was educational in the ways in which people of this time period lived and survived off of nature and one another.