Agency:.Co-produced by the NFB and Environment Canada.

Director, Peter Raymont ; producer, Tom Daly ; executive producer, Colin Low ; script, Michael Rubbo ; photography, Robert Humble ; sound, Bev Davidson, Claude Lefebvre ; editing, Michael Rubbo, Ian Rankin, Peter Raymont ; sound editing, Abbey Jack Neidik ; music, Ben Low.

Recorded 1977.

River (Planet Earth) is a student's audio-visual presentation of a river system and the importance of water to humans, to his professor who hates to be bored. Both serious and humorous, the film shows how water sustains life, feeds industry, provides power and irrigates the land. It shows how water is inverted, dammed, used and expelled. It talks of pollution. The film demonstrates how water affects the economy, sociology and ecology of a country.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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