Agency - English program:.Ontario Centre. Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-production with 13 Production and in association with Galafilm, ARTE France, TVO, RTBF Belgium TV, Simple Production, GA&A Producitons - Italy, SBS-TV Australia, TSR Switzerland and YLE Teema Finland. Study guide available.

Writer, Paul Cowan ; director, Paul Cowan ; director of photography, Paul Cowan ; producer, Gerry Flahive, Paul Saadoun ; editor, Denis Papillon, Annie Ilkow ; key set decorator, Philippe Jacquier ; supervising archival researcher, Elizabeth Klinck ; supervising sound editor, Cory Rizos ; re-recording, Serge Boivin, Jean Paul Vialard ; original music composer, Robert M. Lepage ; executive producer, Paul Saadoun, Silva Basmajian, Arnie Gelbart ; makeup artist, Marie Baudrais ; wardrobe, Chrystelle Cavalier ; makeup artist, Lydie Chemla ; wardrobe, Annaig Derlyn Le Bourhis, Christine Desprez ; hairstylist, Fabrice Elineau ; wardrobe, Céline El Mazouzi ; wardrobe, Isabelle Lebreton ; key makeup artist, Sylvie Lonchamp ; makeup artist, Karine Meyer ; makeup artist, Natacha Ribeiro, Sandrine Roman ; hairstylist, José Luis Romero ; makeup artist, Katia Ruiz ; sound engineer, Jacques Sans ; wardrobe, Muriel Sahm ; hairstylist, Estelle Tolstoukine ; key hair stylist, Frédéric Zaid ; music editing, Nicolas Borycki ; foley artist, Alexis Farand, Emmanuel Dupire ; production team, Virginie Guibbaud, Véronique Rabuteau, Marie-Christine Gely, Danièle Borg.

Narrator, R.H. Thomson ; performer, David Lowe, Paul Bandey, Yan Brian, Jean-Gabriel Nordmann, Nicolas Hawtrey, Vincent Lo Monaco, Jurgen Zwingel, Martin Ziemann, Wolfgang Pissors ; cast, Jerry Di Giacomo, Fabrice Talon, Hiro Uchiyama, Colin David Reese, Peter Vizard, Nordine Ouchene, Dimitri Rafalsky, Jean-Pierre Stewart, Oscar Sisto, Grégory Quidel, Eddie Crew, Sébastien Tavel, Bruce Van Barthold, Alan Rossett, Douglas Rand, Tony Vanaria, Robbie Nock, Jonathan Hutchinson, Michael Rickwood, François Sinapi, Fabrice Scott ; voice, Michael Fletcher.

Recorded 2008.

For six months in 1919 Paris was the capital of the world. The last shots had just been fired in the most devastating war of all time - and the old global order lay in tatters. Delegations from over 30 nations urgently descended upon Paris for the most ambitious peace talks in history. At the helm were the Big Four - President Woodrow Wilson along with leaders of France, the UK and Italy. They endeavored to engineer a peace treaty "for all time," creating instead an embittered Germany already dreaming of retaliation - and creating contentious new entities like Iraq and Yugoslavia. Inspired by Margaret MacMillan's landmark book - hailed by The New York Times as a "blueprint of the political and social upheavals bedevilling the planet now" - Paris 1919 takes us inside this singular event with a vivid sense of character and narrative. In a compelling story that blends re-enactments with archival images, director Paul Cowan captures the dramatic cut-and-thrust of diplomacy, while evoking the extraordinary atmosphere of a metropolis returning to life. Popular history at its most thoughtful, Paris 1919 revisits a pivotal moment in the modern era - offering a disquieting reflection on one of history's great missed opportunities.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Best History Documentary Program, 2010 Award for Best History & Biography Program, 2009

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