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Canadians Advance Near Cambrai 31918 8 min
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Canada in World War One1962 16 min
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Airplane Casualties1918 6 min
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Battle of Arras 31917 8 min
This animated short by Claude Cloutier is a pictorial account of an attack on Canadian soldiers during WWI. On the edge of the battlefield, recruits are dreading the order to attack. At the signal, a young soldier leaps into a hell of fire and blood where the earth engulfs both the living and the dead. Blending archival images and Cloutier’s hypnotizing brushstroke, the film is a dazzling illustration of the futility of war.