1.0 video http://www.nfb.ca/film/rise_and_fall_of_the_great_lakes Bill Mason National Film Board of Canada http://www.nfb.ca http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/nfb_tube/thumbs_small/2010/RiseandFalloftheGreatLakes_petite.jpg 204 115 <iframe src="http://www.nfb.ca/film/rise_and_fall_of_the_great_lakes/embed/player" width="530" height="345" ></iframe><p style="width:(( width ))px"><a href="http://www.nfb.ca/film/rise_and_fall_of_the_great_lakes/" target="_blank"><em>The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes </em></a> by <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/bill-mason/" title="more films by Bill Mason" target="_blank">Bill Mason</a>, <a href="http://www.nfb.ca" target="_blank">National Film Board of Canada</a></p> 530 345 In this short documentary from conservationist Bill Mason, he illustrates that although the Great Lakes have had their ups and downs, nothing has been harder to take than what humans have done to them lately. In the film, a lone canoeist lives through the changes of geological history, through Ice Age and flood, only to find himself in the end trapped in a sea of scum.