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.—Alan Katz

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.—dawsonpersi

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.—Johnny-the-Film-Sentinel-2187