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Canada at War, Part 8: New Directions

1962 27 min
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December 1943 - June 1944. Canada, war-seasoned, girds for the final assault. In London, Commonwealth prime ministers meet and Mackenzie King holds out for Canadian independence in foreign policy. In the Arctic, Canadian ships sail the Murmansk run with supplies for beleaguered Russia. The Italian campaign intensifies. In the south of England the Allies poise for attack.

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Canada at War, Part 8: New Directions
  • 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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December 1943 - June 1944. Canada, war-seasoned, girds for the final assault. In London, Commonwealth prime ministers meet and Mackenzie King holds out for Canadian independence in foreign policy. In the Arctic, Canadian ships sail the Murmansk run with supplies for beleaguered Russia. The Italian campaign intensifies. In the south of England the Allies poise for attack.

This work contains scenes of nudity and/or sexuality. Viewer discretion is advised.
History - Canada - 1920-1945 Foreign Countries War, Conflict and Peace All subjects
  • producer
    Stanley Clish
    Donald Brittain
  • executive producer
    Peter Jones
  • script
    Donald Brittain
    Stuart Nutter
  • editing
    John Kemeny
  • sound editing
    Kenneth Heeley-Ray
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
  • 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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Civics/Citizenship - Ideologies Health/Personal Development - Mental Health/Stress/Suicide History - World War II
Students choose a wartime leader and write a short “biography” of that person. Students will then write a fictional journal entry for that leader on the day before the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Students will discuss which activity was more challenging, and why. This activity could be adapted to look at an individual soldier and examine the thoughts and fears of the ordinary men on the eve of D-Day.
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