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Canada Remembers Part One: Turning the Tide

1995 53 min
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Part one of a 3-part series, Canada Remembers, Turning the Tide documents the years between the outbreak of WWII in September 1939 and June 1944. A compilation of modern day interviews interspersed with photographs and footage from the war, this documentary covers landmark events such as the Battle of Britain, the raid on Dieppe, the landing in Sicily and the battle for Ortona. It focuses on both the Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen who fought in the war and the women who became part of the war effort, either by enlisting or by going to work in the factories and …

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Part one of a 3-part series, Canada Remembers, Turning the Tide documents the years between the outbreak of WWII in September 1939 and June 1944. A compilation of modern day interviews interspersed with photographs and footage from the war, this documentary covers landmark events such as the Battle of Britain, the raid on Dieppe, the landing in Sicily and the battle for Ortona. It focuses on both the Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen who fought in the war and the women who became part of the war effort, either by enlisting or by going to work in the factories and shipyards.
  • 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
  • narrator
    R.H. Thomson
  • music
    Neil Smolar
  • research
    Elizabeth Klinck
  • location manager
    Elizabeth Klinck
  • participation
    Frieda Bindman Dougherty
    Farley Mowat
    Peter Macnab
    Mary Hawkins Buch
    Ed Washington
    Louis J. Audette
    Norm Bowen
    Donald Pearce
    Art Headlam
    Joseph Bannon

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