Vimy-Ridge at Fmovies. In this short animation Damien Hess attempts to connect with the tragedy of the First World War, a conflict that helped define Canada. In this film he uses imagery of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial monument in northern France to summon up names, faces and shadows that are fading from our memory. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
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This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.
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Biplane battles over France in World War I between Bugs and Baron (Yosemite) Sam Von Shamm.
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Lightning sketch propaganda stirs outrage about Reims bombing, and features a British bulldog eating the German sausage.