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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
Churchill was born into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jenny Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.
Actors: John N. Smith (director), Paul Gross (actor), Kevin DeWalt (producer), Matthew Walker (actor), Don McKellar (actor), Aidan Devine (actor), R.H. Thomson (actor), Nicholas Campbell (actor), Ian Tracey (actor), Brian Markinson (actor), Kristin Booth (actress), Rob Roy (actor), Andy Jones (actor), Robert Moloney (actor), Brent Carver (actor),
Plot: In 1930s Saskatchewan, a small town parish has a new young new pastor, Tommy Douglas. However, for all his regular duties, which include boxing lessons, Tommy sees the poverty and injustice around him which seem beyond his power to address with the pulpit. With that in mind, Douglas enters politics with the socialist Canadian Commonwealth Federation and starts a career where his steadfast idealism runs headlong into the powerful opposition of the rich and the powerful. Despite the long odds, Douglas' new calling would soon make him a leader that would transform Canada and have him hailed as the greatest Canadian of all.
Keywords: 1930s, boxing, canada, church, compassion, debate, election, great-depression, ottawa-ontario-canada, parliamentActors: John N. Smith (actor), Alain Clavier (composer), Adam Symansky (producer), Adam Symansky (actor), Donald Brittain (actor), Kent Martin (writer), Colin Neale (producer), Roger Hart (actor), Marrin Canell (actor), Sean McCann (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), John Kemeny (actor), Leonard Cohen (actor), Larry Crosley (composer), Jacques Vallée (producer),
Genres: Biography, Documentary,Actors: David Wilson (editor), Winston Churchill (actor), David Gardner (actor), Dean Hagopian (actor), Lupino Lane (actor), Sean McCann (actor), R.H. Thomson (actor), Colin Neale (producer), Adam Symansky (producer), David Wilson (producer), Damir Andrei (actor), Denise Beaudoin (editor), John Friesen (actor), Terre Nash (actress), Louis Mountbatten (actor),
Plot: In World War II Canada, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King faced with an agonizing political dilemma. If Canada fully participated in the war, the matter of troop replacements would likely arise and with that, the necessity of conscription. King was well aware of the extremely explosive nature of this issue and its deeply divisive nature for English and French speaking relations. This film covers his struggle to cope with this matter and avoid the bloodshed which occurred in WWI that tore the country apart.
Keywords: canada, canadian-history, character-name-in-title, conscription, ethnic-conflict, ottawa-ontario-canada, politician, politics, prime-minister, seanceActors: Donald Brittain (writer), Milan Kymlicka (composer), J. Winston Carroll (actor), Donald Brittain (actor), Eldon Rathburn (composer), Peter Katadotis (producer), Adam Symansky (producer), Roger Hart (editor), Sean McCann (actor), Gary Reineke (actor), Donald Brittain (director), Michael Kirby (actor), Rita Roy (editor), Patricia Collins (actress), Albert Millaire (actor),
Plot: Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King's childhood and early career are chronicled. Believing he is a child of destiny, drawn to greatness by "an unseen hand," King begins the meteoric rise to power in the civil service and later in the Liberal Party of Canada. By the end of this episode, however, his political future appears uncertain.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, first-of-series, part-of-trilogyActors: Donald Brittain (writer), Donald Brittain (actor), J. Winston Carroll (actor), Damir Andrei (actor), Roger Hart (editor), Sean McCann (actor), Donald Brittain (director), Gary Reineke (actor), Eldon Rathburn (composer), Milan Kymlicka (composer), Peter Katadotis (producer), Adam Symansky (producer), Rita Roy (editor), Gordon Jocelyn (actor), Marion Gilsenan (actress),
Plot: Having survived the Customs Scandal, Canadian politician Mackenzie King finds himself in yet another bitter struggle, the King-Byng Affair. After his loss to Bennett's Conservatives in the 1930 election, King secretly turns to spiritualism in order to make contact with his mother and others of the "great beyond."
Keywords: character-name-in-title, part-of-trilogy, second-part, sequelActors: Peter Katadotis (producer), Donald Brittain (actor), Adam Symansky (producer), David Gardner (actor), Damir Andrei (actor), Sean McCann (actor), Henry Ramer (actor), R.H. Thomson (actor), Roger Hart (editor), Donald Brittain (director), Eldon Rathburn (composer), Milan Kymlicka (composer), Donald Brittain (writer), John Friesen (actor), Rita Roy (editor),
Plot: This final episode of the life of Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King begins with the divisive Conscription Crisis. Despite his assurances that conscription would not be implemented, conditions in Europe force King to hold a plebiscite on the issue. King remains in office until his retirement in 1948. A lonely man, he lives out his remaining years at Kingsmere.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, part-of-trilogy, sequel, trilogy