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Canada [videorecording] : a people's history
Title:
Canada [videorecording] : a people's history
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[videorecording] : CBC Television, Radio-Canada, Morningstar Entertainment Inc.
Publication Information:
[Toronto] : Canadian Broadcasting Corp., c2000-c2001.
Physical Description:
21 videodiscs in 12 containers : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781552590621
9781552590638
9781552590645
9781552590911
9781552590928
9781552590935
General Note:
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Series 1 -- v. 1-3 ; Series 2 -- v.4-6 ; Series 3 -- v.7-9 ; Series 4 -- v.10-12.
Special DVD features: Canadian History Trivia Quiz; Making history documentary on the making of the series; additional contemporary documentary footage; web site links; interactive menu; chapter indexing.
Based on: Canada: a people's history / Don Gillmor and Pierre Turgeon.
Abstract:
This television series tells the history and prehistory of Canada, with dramatic recreations of historical events and including many hours of archival footage, documentary evidence from the native Canadians through British and French settlers to modern times.
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Added Title Contained Works:
When the world began.
Adventures & mystics.
Claiming the wilderness.
Battle for a continent.
Question of loyalties.
Pathfinders.
From sea to sea.
Rebellion & reform.
Contents:
v. 1. disc 1. When the world began. Adventurers & mystics ; disc 2. Special features -- v. 2. disc 1. Claiming the wilderness. Battle for a continent ; disc 2, Special features -- v. 3. disc 1. A question of loyalties. Special features -- v. 4. disc 1. The Pathfinders ; disc 2. Rebellion & reform -- v. 5. disc 1. The Great enterprise ; disc 2. From sea to sea -- [v. 6. disc 1] Speical documentary edition (Additional contemporary documentary footage to accompany v.4-5.) -- v. 7. disc 1. Taking the west ; disc 2. The Great Transformation -- v. 8. disc 1. Ordeal by fire ; disc 2. Hard times -- v. 9. disc 1. Special documentary edition (Additional contemporary documentary footage to accompany v.7-8.) ; disc 2. Une histoire populaire -- v. 10. disc 1. The Crucible ; disc 2. Comfort and fear -- v. 11. disc 1. Years of hope and anger ; disc 2. In an uncertain world -- v. 12 disc 1. Special documenatry edition (Additional contemporary documentary footage to accompany v.10-11.) .
Credits:
CBC Home Video ; senior producers, Gordon Henderson, Hubert Gendron ; director of research, Gene Allen ; editorial director, Louis Martin ; narrator, Maggie Huculak ; conceived and produced by Mark Starowicz.
Technical Details:
DVD; widescreen letterbox version (1.33:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital stereo.