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The Liberators

1995 54 min
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The Liberators focuses on WWII during the period between June and December 1944. While following the action from the D-Day landings on the shores of Normandy up into Belgium and Holland, the film also highlights the contributions of the women who remained on the homefront. As the fourth largest producer of armaments among the Allied countries, Canada spent much of the war evolving into a formidable industrial nation.

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  • Canada Remembers
    Canada Remembers
    1995 3 films
    This 3-part series draws on personal stories and archival footage to tell the story of six of the most significant years in our country's history: from 1939, the beginning of WWII, to its end in 1945.

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The Liberators focuses on WWII during the period between June and December 1944. While following the action from the D-Day landings on the shores of Normandy up into Belgium and Holland, the film also highlights the contributions of the women who remained on the homefront. As the fourth largest producer of armaments among the Allied countries, Canada spent much of the war evolving into a formidable industrial nation.

  • director
    Terence Macartney-Filgate
  • producer
    Kent Martin
  • executive producer
    Don Haig
  • script
    William Whitehead
  • photography
    Jim Aquila
    Rolf Cutts
  • sound
    Hans Oomes
  • editing
    Markham Cook
  • sound editing
    André Galbrand
    Wojtek Klis
    Paul Demers
  • re-recording
    Louis Hone
    Nathalie Morin
  • narrator
    R.H. Thomson
  • music
    Neil Smolar
  • research
    Elizabeth Klinck
  • location manager
    Elizabeth Klinck
  • participation
    William F. Whitehead
    Hallie Sloan
    Nora Cook
    Farley Mowat
    Harry Fox
    J.G. Larry Robillard
    Michel Gauvin
    Ken Bell
    Jean-Charles Forbes
    Jack Marshall

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