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Valenciennes 11918 2 min
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Valenciennes 21918 9 min
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Canada in World War One1962 16 min
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The War Is Over1945 4 min
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Airplane Casualties1918 6 min
This feature documentary profiles poet John McCrae, from his childhood in Ontario to his years in medicine at McGill University and the WWI battlefields of Belgium, where he cared for wounded soldiers. Generations of schoolchildren have recited McCrae’s iconic poem “In Flanders Fields,” but McCrae and Alexis Helmer—the young man whose death inspired the poem—have faded from memory. This film seeks to revive their stories through a vivid portrait of a great man in Canadian history.