No Price Too High chronicles the history of Canadian participation in the Second World War. Episode one commences with the unveiling of the Vimy Memorial, and episode six ends with victory in 1945. The six-hour series has a logical thematic structure designed to cover all the principle areas of Canadian participation.
Producers: Norflicks Productions Ltd.
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Remembrance: Memorial for an Unknown Soldier
Examines the phenomenon of remembrance as exemplified by the return of an unknown Canadian soldier from Vimy to a tomb specially created in 2000 at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. It is a moving and fitting tribute to the nearly 28,000 Canadian servicemen and women who gave their lives to their country and have no known graves.
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La prix de la liberté (3 DVDs)
Episode 1 – Le temps des illusions
Episode 2 – Un soutien vital
Episode 4 – Alton etait un poête
Episode 5 – La libération
Episode 6 – La victoire -
Folly – 1936 to June 1940
No Price Too High chronicles the history of Canadian participation in the Second World War. Episode one commences with the unveiling of the Vimy Memorial, and episode six ends with victory in 1945. The six-hour series has a logical thematic structure designed to cover all the principle areas of Canadian participation.
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Lifeline – June 1940 to December 1941
No Price Too High chronicles the history of Canadian participation in the Second World War. Episode one commences with the unveiling of the Vimy Memorial, and episode six ends with victory in 1945. The six-hour series has a logical thematic structure designed to cover all the principle areas of Canadian participation.
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The End of the Beginning – 1942
No Price Too High chronicles the history of Canadian participation in the Second World War. Episode one commences with the unveiling of the Vimy Memorial, and episode six ends with victory in 1945. The six-hour series has a logical thematic structure designed to cover all the principle areas of Canadian participation.
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Alton was a Poet – 1943
No Price Too High chronicles the history of Canadian participation in the Second World War. Episode one commences with the unveiling of the Vimy Memorial, and episode six ends with victory in 1945. The six-hour series has a logical thematic structure designed to cover all the principle areas of Canadian participation.
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Sam’s Army
Canada was led to war by a bigoted, ignorant, self-obsessed Minister of Militia, who may well have been clinically insane, but the importance of Canada’s contribution in that war owes a great deal to him. The man of course, was Colonel – later made Lieutenant General by his own hand – Sam Hughes.
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The Battle of Vimy Ridge
A two-hour documentary which recreates for the viewer one of the greatest battles in Canadian military history. The film was made to show that Canadian character at its best, forging an identity for a country that before the First World War had been seen only as a British colony – an identity and a character that became recognized and respected throughout Europe.
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The Last 100 Days
Canadian military accomplishments in the last hundred days of World War I, when the German Army was destroyed, surpassed those of any other army. The Canadian success was, in no small measure, due to Arthur Currie, whom a recent British historian describes as “the most successful Allied General and one of the least well known.”