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John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance
196428 min 5 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Morten Parker
Production: Guy Glover
Script: Morten Parker
To the 15th-century European the dream of a westward route across the sea to the Orient was as challenging as today's probes of outer space. John Cabot was a man eager to make the venture. Here is a vital story, exploring not only the geography of the Renaissance world, but also its social and intellectual character.
Subject categories
- History - Canada - Pre-1867 > Atlantic RegionExplorationPortraits
- History > Historic PeopleWorld History
- History > Early Colonization/Settlement
Credits
- director
- Morten Parker
- script
- Morten Parker
- executive producer
- Guy Glover
- photography
- Denis Gillson
- sound
- Leo O'Donnell
- George Croll
- editing
- Dennis Sawyer
- sound editing
- Sidney Pearson
- cast
- Ivor Barry
- Powys Thomas
- John Vernon