Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the assistance of the Secretary of State. Study guide available.

Director, Erna Buffie ; script, Erna Buffie ; producer, Adam Symansky, David Wilson ; executive producer, Colin Neale ; editing, David Wilson, Denise Beaudoin ; sound editing, Les Halman ; re-recording, Jean-Pierre Joutel, Shelley Craig ; music, Louis Babin.

Narrator, Terre Nash ; cast, Sean McCann, Damir Andrei, Mark Brennan, Jean Chevalier, Jason Dean, Yves Dubreuil, John Friesen, David Gardner, Dean Hagopian, Gordon Jocelyn.

Recorded 1991.

From the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Mackenzie King tried to avoid conscription, lest civil war break out in Canada. Most English Canadians thought young men should be sent to fight. Most French Canadians vehemently disagreed. This same division had nearly torn the country apart during the First World War. Now a similar pressure was building. Should conscription be imposed? In spite of delaying tactics, King had to make a decision in the final year of the war. Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis combines archival footage with excerpts from The King Chronicles, a dramatic film series written and directed by Donald Brittain. Some scenes contain graphic language.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).