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Canada Remembers - Part Two - The Liberators

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June to December, 1944. After years of dedication and sacrifice, an Allied victory seems tantalizingly close. The Liberators accompanies Canadian soldiers from their D-Day landings on the shores of Normandy, up along the coast of northern France and into Belgium and Holland. The film also visits the homefront in Canada, where the war effort was transforming the country into a formidable industrial nation--the fourth largest producer of armaments among the Allied countries. In achieving this, women played a leading role, with almost one million in the work force by 1944. The Second World War changed the way Canadian women saw themselves and, indeed, the way the country as a whole saw itself--a young nation that had now become much more mature and self-confident. Interspersed with archival footage are the vivid memories of men and women who recall life during the war years. Part two of the series.

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Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with the Canada Remembers Committee of Veterans Affairs Canada.
Study guide available.

Credit Note

Director, Terence Macartney-Filgate ; producer, Kent Martin ; executive producer, Don Haig ; script, William Whitehead ; photography, Jim Aquila, Rolf Cutts ; sound, Hans Oomes ; editing, Markham Cook ; sound editing, André Galbrand, Wojtek Klis, Paul Demers ; re-recording, Louis Hone, Nathalie Morin ; music, Neil Smolar ; research, Elizabeth Klinck.

Performer Note

Narrator, R.H. Thomson ; participation, William F. Whitehead, Hallie Sloan, Nora Cook, Farley Mowat, Harry Fox, J.G. Larry Robillard, Michel Gauvin, Ken Bell, Jean-Charles Forbes, Jack Marshall.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 1995.

Summary

June to December, 1944. After years of dedication and sacrifice, an Allied victory seems tantalizingly close. The Liberators accompanies Canadian soldiers from their D-Day landings on the shores of Normandy, up along the coast of northern France and into Belgium and Holland. The film also visits the homefront in Canada, where the war effort was transforming the country into a formidable industrial nation--the fourth largest producer of armaments among the Allied countries. In achieving this, women played a leading role, with almost one million in the work force by 1944. The Second World War changed the way Canadian women saw themselves and, indeed, the way the country as a whole saw itself--a young nation that had now become much more mature and self-confident. Interspersed with archival footage are the vivid memories of men and women who recall life during the war years. Part two of the series.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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