CANADA: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY, SERIES 1 VOLUME 1

Details

• Release Year: 2000
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Disc 1 (RUNNING TIME: 240 MINUTES); WHEN THE WORLD BEGAN... (15,000 BC to 1800 AD) ; From the rich resource of native oral history comes the stories of the first occupants of the territory that would become Canada: how dozens of distinct societies took shape, and the electrifying moments of their first contact with a strange new people: the Europeans.; ; PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: ANDREW GREGG; ; ADVENTURERS & MYSTICS (1540 to t600); The search for the Northwest Passage and the expansion of the Grand Banks fishery make the New World a destination for Europeans in the 16th century. Champlain begins his legendary journeys and the precarious beginnings of New France are established in an era of unprecedented alliances and devastating conflicts.; ; PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: SERGE TURBIDE, CLAUDE LORTIE, ANDREW GREGG; ; Disc 2; • Canadian History Trivia Quiz, Part One; • Making History (RUNNING TIME: 60 MINUTES); • Additional contemporary documentary footage (RUNNING TIME: 62 MINUTES);
• Cast: Maggie Huculak; Lorne Cardinal; Nigel Bennett; Graham Greene; Paule Baillargeon; Eric Peterson; Andrew Gillies; Ned Vukovic; Michael Hanrahan; Carl Marotte; C. David Johnson; Harry Standjofski; Raymond Cloutier; Jean-René Ouellet; Ghyslain Tremblay; Yvon Thiboutot; Robert Vézina; Torri Higginson; Jeff Page; Evan Adams; Raven Wright; Wayne Best; Levi Aguonie; Simon Baker; Stéphane Blanchette; Sid Bobb; Nancy Bomberry; Michael S. Davis; Jack Burning; Scott Finlay; Kevin Hare; Tantoo Cardinal; Derwin Jordan; Dan Lett; René-Daniel Dubois; Holly Lewis; Flint Eagle; Domenico Fiore; James Mainprize; Louise Marleau; Stephen McHattie; David Hemblen; Claude Poissant; John Homer; Eric Schweig; Roger Honeywell; Desmond Scott; Lucie Idlout; Nicolas Van Burek; Alex Jacobs; William Colgate; Jonathon Jacobson; Gary Farmer; Rita Joe; David Ferry; Aaron Keeshig; Sandra Laronde; Michael Mahonen; Francois Klanfer; Stephanie Morgenstern; Jim Mason III; Fiona Reid; Pamela Matthews; Gail Maurice; Greg Spottiswood; Wendy Thatcher; Gord Pelletier; Yvan Ponton; Carlo Rota; Ron White; Ellen Sylvester; August Schellenberg; Del Taylor; Raoul Max Trujillo; Peter Windrem; Simon Berry; Kim Bubbs; Dianne Latchford; Gerard Parkes; Oliver Svendsen; Frank Schorpion; Christopher Jacot; Dennis O'Connor; Alex Bisping; Pierre Chagnon; Allen Altman; James Bradford; Jean Marchand; Paul Doucet; Alan Fawcett; François Papineau; Dominique Briand; Yvon Bilodeau; René Gagnon; Zachary Richard; Lorne Brass; Patricia Tulasne; Carl Béchard; Bob Harding; Ian Deakin; Monique Mohica Aka Mama Bear; Abel Rabbitskin; Éloi Savoie; Lorraine Pintal; Gordon Tootoosis; Adam Kelly Morton; Arthur Holden; Jennifer Hunter; Art Kitching; Andréa Parro; Dominique Pétin; Jean L'Italien; Maxim Roy; Gérard Poirier; Simon Barry; Normand Bissonnette; John Gilbert; Yvonne Laflamme; Robert Lalonde; Guy Nadon; Paul Savoie; Frédérick De Grandpré; François Tassé; Stéphan Côté; Gaétan Dumont; Paul Essiembre; Jean LeClerc; Daniel Pilon; Jacques Rossi; Dennis St John; Normand Lévesque; Taylor Abrahamse; Charles Chaplin; Adolf Hitler; Mary Pickford; Douglas Fairbanks; Leonard Cohen; Winston Churchill; Theodore Roosevelt; Geordie Johnson; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Shaun Smyth; Tommy Douglas; Luba Goy; James Rae; Brian Mulroney; William Lyon Mackenzie King; R.B. Bennett; Wilfrid Laurier; Frederick Banting; Kim Campbell; Deborah Ann Smith; Serge Turbide; Claude Lortie; MARQUISE LEPAGE; JIM WILLIAMSON; Laine Drewery; Andrew Gregg; Susan Dando; Jacqueline Dubé-Corkery; Peter John Ingles; Michelle Métivier; JILL OFFMAN; Susan Teskey; Gene Allen; Hubert Gendron; Mark Starowicz; ANDREW BURNSTEIN; Gordon Henderson
• Director: Serge Turbide
• Runtime: 6:02
• Company: Morningstar Entertainment Inc., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Media Format: Movie