Remembrance on film: Canadian documentaries and the world wars
From the NFB's wartime reels and Churchill's Island to the fight over The Valour and the Horror, how Canadian documentaries have remembered the world wars.
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From the NFB's wartime reels and Churchill's Island to the fight over The Valour and the Horror, how Canadian documentaries have remembered the world wars.
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