First World War documentaries to be shown for Remembrance Day
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This article was published 28/10/2014 (4175 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A pair of documentaries about Westman soldiers in the First World War will be shown back-to-back on Remembrance Day.
Admission is free, donations will go to the Legion’s poppy campaign.
The two films, ‘Warpaths: Every Town Had Soldiers,’ and ‘Warpaths: Ghost Camps,’ will be shown Nov. 11 at the Evans Theatre at Brandon University, starting at 2 p.m.
A new, third documentary in the series, ‘Warpaths: Silver Crosses,’ will also be shown at the Evans, but on Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m.
The documentaries, created by local filmmakers Graham Street and Marc George, focus on the Westman experience during the First World War.
The first film, ‘Every Town Had Soldiers,’ features the stories of three men from Western Manitoba who fought for Canada during the First World War. The documentary features many locations throughout the Westman area including the Town of Boissevain, Camp Hughes Provincial Heritage Site and The RCA Museum in Shilo. The filmmakers also traveled to France, following the footsteps of the Westman soldiers who fought for their country in the iconic Battle of Vimy Ridge.
In the second, ‘Ghost Camps,’ the film sheds light on how Canadians trained during the Great War and on what life in the training camps was like for the soldiers. The sacrifices made by Canadians in the First World War are marked by the graves all along their warpaths.
The third film, ‘Silver Crosses,’ which is premiering next month, focuses on the home-front experience of the First World War: what happened to wounded soldiers and to the families of fallen soldiers.
Filmed on location in Manitoba, France, and Belgium, the film follows in the footsteps of three soldiers, and those of their mother and sister, who travelled to Europe after the Great War to find their graves. The film shows how the way that the war’s dead are honoured has evolved over time, and how perceptions about them have changed as the war becomes more distant in history.
There is a website about the series, at warpathsdocumentary.com.