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Weapons and Warfare (3)

  • Eye Witness No. 29
    Eye Witness No. 29
    1950 9 min
    This installment of the Eye Witness series focuses on Indigenous children at Fort Simpson; a miniature naval battle between radio-operated vessels attended by the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets in Montreal; a drive-in theatre near Ottawa used to provide church services to passing motorists; and how Toronto's subway system is starting to take shape.
  • My Child, My Land
    My Child, My Land
    Francine Desbiens 1998 4 min
    This animated short deals with the difficult subject of antipersonnel land mines. Each year, hundreds of men, women and children are wounded or killed by these land mines. This film reveals the hideous nature of these weapons along with the complicity of the industrial nations.
  • Neptune Mission
    Neptune Mission
    Walford Hewitson 1958 30 min
    Royal Canadian Air Force submarine hunters--Neptune aircraft--patrol the Atlantic, and in a realistic training exercise lead Royal Canadian Navy destroyers to an "enemy" submarine.

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