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Canada at War, Part 2: Blitzkrieg
196227 min 46 secFilm: Documentary
Production: Stanley ClishDonald BrittainPeter Jones
Script: Donald Brittain
April - November 1940. With devastating speed Germany takes Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Italy declares war. The British withdraw from Dunkirk. Mackenzie King feels the Canadian pulse on conscription. England is strafed by the Luftwaffe, and Britons accept Churchill's challenge of "blood, sweat and tears."
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Subject categories
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Canada at WarCanadian Military ForcesCanadian War EffortPolitics and GovernmentPortraitsWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations
- Foreign Countries > EuropeGreat BritainWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations
- War, Conflict and Peace > World War II
- Civics/Citizenship > Federal/Provincial Government
- Arts Education > Visual Arts
- History > World War II
Credits
- producer
- Stanley Clish
- Donald Brittain
- executive producer
- Peter Jones
- writer
- Donald Brittain
- editing
- David Green
- sound editing
- Bernard Bordeleau
- re-recording
- George Croll
- Ted Haley
- narrator
- Budd Knapp
- music
- Robert Fleming
- Eldon Rathburn
- Maurice Blackburn