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Canada at War, Part 5: Ebbtide

1962 27 min
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July - September 1942. A time of defeat and disaster. Hitler is at the apex of his power. A Canadian division probes at Dieppe and is repulsed with heavy casualties. Canadian factories take over production of the fabled Lancaster night bomber; Canadian bush pilots ferry the big planes across the Atlantic. German U-boats penetrate the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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Canada at War, Part 5: Ebbtide
  • Canada at War
    Canada at War
    1962 13 films
    From the depressed thirties to the war-torn forties -- a time of testing and trial, of strength discovered and victory won. Here is Canada's story of World War II, as experienced by Canadians at home and on the battlefronts of the world. In thirteen half-hour films you re-live a vital era that changed the nation and the world.

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July - September 1942. A time of defeat and disaster. Hitler is at the apex of his power. A Canadian division probes at Dieppe and is repulsed with heavy casualties. Canadian factories take over production of the fabled Lancaster night bomber; Canadian bush pilots ferry the big planes across the Atlantic. German U-boats penetrate the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

  • producer
    Stanley Clish
    Donald Brittain
  • executive producer
    Peter Jones
  • script
    Donald Brittain
  • editing
    David Green
  • sound editing
    Kenneth Heeley-Ray
    Sidney Pearson
  • re-recording
    George Croll
    Ted Haley
  • narrator
    Budd Knapp
  • music
    Robert Fleming
    Eldon Rathburn
    Maurice Blackburn
    Ken Campbell

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Ages 14 to 17
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A study on the social impacts of the war at home. Students will discuss the economics of war and the importance of industrial strength in winning the war. In terms of Canada’s role in overall Allied strategy, students will examine the history, planning, and eventual failure of the Dieppe Raid, and will debate the film’s assertion that the devastating Canadian losses at Dieppe were a “necessary tragedy” from which lessons learned would eventually lead to Allied successes.
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