Dusk

196227 min 46 secFilm: Documentary

Production: Stanley ClishDonald BrittainPeter Jones

Script: Donald Brittain

1936 - March 1940. In Europe war clouds gather as Germany re-arms and Hitler propounds his "master race" doctrine. Chamberlain's appeasement fails. Germany overruns Czechoslovakia. Britain declares war; Canada makes an independent decision to join. The first Canadian troopship sails from Halifax.

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Subject categories

  • History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Canadian Military ForcesWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations
  • Foreign Countries > EuropeWorld War II Military Operations
  • War, Conflict and Peace > World War II
  • History and Citizenship Education > Civil Rights and Freedoms
  • Civics/Citizenship > Human RightsIdeologies
  • History > World War II

Credits

producer
Stanley Clish
Donald Brittain
writer
Donald Brittain
executive producer
Peter Jones
editing
David Green
John Kemeny
Tony Lower
sound editing
Kenneth Heeley-Ray
Michael McKennirey
Victor Merrill
Sidney Pearson
Jean-Pierre Joutel
Bernard Bordeleau
re-recording
George Croll
Ted Haley
narrator
Budd Knapp
music
Robert Fleming
Eldon Rathburn
Maurice Blackburn