Documentary Films, Videos and Series
Aces: A Story of the First Air War
- 1992
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The Battle of the Somme
- Cromwell Productions
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The Battle of Vimy Rigde
- Part of the National Film Board of Canada WWI Series, this 1997 production stands alone as one of the best war documentaries ever made
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Canada Remembers
- National Film Board of Canada WWII Series
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The Danger Tree
- One Family's Story During the War, 1997
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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
- 1992
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Far from Home: Canada and the Great War
- National Film Board of Canada Series
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If Ye Break Faith...
- By The War Amps (of Canada)
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John McCrae's War: In Flanders Fields
- National Film Board of Canada
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Peacekeeper At War. A Personal View Of The Gulf War
- National Film Board of Canada, 1994
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Vimy: The Birth of a Nation
- By Vimy Productions Inc.
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War at Sea
- National Film Board of Canada WWII Series
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And We Knew How to Dance: Women in World War I
- National Film Board of Canada
Canadian Soldier Monument
Niagra Falls, Ontario
Dramatizations & Featured Films
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Note: Some of these selections do not focus on the Canadian experience, but have been chosen because they capture the scope and character of events to which Canadians and Canadian forces contributed. |
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Battle of Britain
- 1969 big budget extravaganza
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The Cruel Sea
- 1953 classic captures the human side of the Battle of the Atlantic
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Dieppe
- 1993 TV dramatization
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The Devil's Brigade
- 1968, Good fun as Canadians and Yanks join forces
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Forty-Ninth Parallel
- 1941 Prisoner of war epic set in Canada
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Immortal Sergeant
- 1943 Film focuses on Canadian enlisted man
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The Longest Day
- Frequently criticized, this 1962 film captures the scope and complexity of D-Day
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Oh! What a Lovely War
- Certain episodes of this 1969 epic capture the trench warfare experience
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
- 1942 Classic focusing on Bomber Command
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Films of the Great War
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