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Canada's Role in the World (Ages 15-17)

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This playlist documents Canada’s role in the world as a military peacekeeping force and highlights other ways in which the country works towards building and supporting democracy. Films in This Playlist Include Good Morning, Kandahar Kosovo: Fragile Peace In God’s Command

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Canada's Role in the World (Ages 15-17)

This playlist documents Canada’s role in the world as a military peacekeeping force and highlights other ways in which the country works towards building and supporting democracy.

Films in This Playlist Include
Good Morning, Kandahar
Kosovo: Fragile Peace
In God’s Command

Playlist

  • Good Morning Kandahar
    Good Morning Kandahar
    Ariel Nasr 2008 50 min
    Ariel Nasr's documentary gives voice to the complex dilemmas faced by contemporary Afghanis under Canadian intervention. The film introduces us to young Afghan-Canadians torn between a deep desire to help Afghanistan and a fear that things will never change. Good Morning Kandahar asks whether Canada's mission in Afghanistan is failing.

    This film was produced as part of the Reel Diversity Competition for emerging filmmakers of colour. Reel Diversity is a National Film Board of Canada initiative in partnership with CBC Newsworld.
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  • Kosovo: Fragile Peace
    Kosovo: Fragile Peace
    Moira Simpson 2002 53 min
    This feature documentary offers a rare glimpse into the frontlines of democracy building through the eyes of a Canadian mother and her daughter. In the heart of Kosovo, an international mission struggles to bring democracy to a land torn apart by bloodshed. There, Canadian lawyer Carolyn McCool works to build bridges between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs, while her 20-year-old daughter Kate travels with a musical roadshow to generate grassroots support for the election among the youth.
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  • In God's Command
    In God's Command
    Garth Pritchard 1995 47 min
    This documentary introduces us to Captain Mark Sargent, chaplain to the Canadian peacekeepers (soldiers of the First Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry) stationed in former Yugoslavia. It offers an intimate look at the work of this remarkable man as he travels from bunker to bunker and from village to village, ministering to soldiers and civilians caught in the bloody conflict that has torn apart the Balkans.
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