Segunda Guerra Mundial, 1942. El coronel Robert Frederick recibe la orden de formar una brigada especial, denominada Fuerzas de Servicios Especiales. Al campo de entrenamiento van llegando los hombres que compondrán esa brigada, muchos de ellos desertores e indeseables. Pero también llega una compañía convencional canadiense. La relación entre los dos grupos no será nada fácil, pero el coronel consigue resolver el problema potenciando el espíritu de camaradería.
En 1917, en Ypres, Bélgica, 50.000 canadienses lucharon heroicamente contra las tropas alemanas. Filme bélico de corte épico que inauguró el Festival de Toronto de 2008.
A Canadian Army unit with the United Nations peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia is tasked with keeping the peace in a dangerous Croatian town named Krasna.
Intel is the story of Allison, a young woman who joined the army and became a dental hygienist. Allison is sick and tired of her job and would like to switch to the more exciting trade of intelligence officer. However, her family is not as supportive as she had hoped they would be. Is it worth risking her marriage and disappointing her mother? What will it really be like to hold a job that doesn't allow you to tell anyone where you are or what you are doing?
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. Sam's Army is a compelling portrait of a complex man and the formidable military he built. Sam Hughes was not your standard-issue military leader. Canada's World War I Minister of Militia and Defence concentrated power in his own hands, insisted that the Canadian military use the ill-conceived Ross rifle and liberally promoted his cronies. But there was no denying Hughes was a visionary. He assembled the world's largest-ever volunteer army and bucked superiors to keep his ferocious fighting force together in one Canadian Corps.
Esta película documenta la crisis de 1990, cuando los nativos americanos de la Nación Mohawk bloquearon el acceso a la tierra de reserva que se están apropiando, contra su voluntad, la comunidad blanca de Oka, Quebec, Canadá. Lo que esta película muestra es el incidente inicial y el sitio que resulta desde el punto de vista de los mohawks, esto es simplemente el ejemplo de la resistencia a 270 años de racismo europeo empujando a su alrededor y que condujo a esta confrontación.
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."
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.
The documentary, using the dramatization of fact, makes the case that the Canadian government knowingly sent two unprepared infantry battalions to help defend Hong Kong in late 1941, fully aware that they may have been on a doomed mission. The C Force, consisting of about 2000 soldiers from the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada (from Quebec City) were, with the other British, Indian and Hong Kong troops, attacked on December 8, 1941 and overwhelmed by Japanese troops, leading to numerous casualties and the surrender on Christmas day. The Canadians would spend more than 3 and half years as prisoners of war, in horrible conditions. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.
An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.
This provocative documentary uncovers a lost chapter in Canadian military history: how the Armed Forces dealt with homosexual behaviour among soldiers, during and after World War II. More than 60 years later, a group of five veterans, barely adults when they enlisted, break the silence to talk about how homosexual behaviour "was even more unmentionable than cancer." Yet amidst the brutality of war, instances of sexual awakening among soldiers and officers were occuring. Initially, the Army overlooked it, but as the war advanced, they began to crack down: military tribunals, threats of imprisonment, discharge and public exposure. After the war, officers accused of homosexuality were discharged. Back home in Canada, reputations and careers were ruined. For the young men who had served their country with valour, this final chapter was often too much to bear. Based on the book Courting Homosexuals in the Military by Paul Jackson.
Jeremiah Cardinal, the Prime Minister of Canada is faced with American invasion. Having been evacuated to a secret bunker, he wants to do more than sit around. Knowing it may give away his location and cost him his life, he must convince the Governor General to help him broadcast one last message to the people to inspire resistance or the invasion will continue uninterrupted.