NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA 113H 9195 014.- Part 1.

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA 113H 9195 015.- Part. 2

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA 113H 9195 016. - Part 3.

Part 1. Turning the Tide: 1939 to D-Day. Men and machines begin the move down to the Channel Coast of England. Naval vessels gather, air raids are mounted on German positions and routes of supply. The long-awaited D-Day invasion is about to begin. The camera pans the faces of Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen who traveled across the ocean to play their own part in the fight. Meanwhile, the wives and children they left behind have found their own way to become part of the war effort - by joining up themselves, or by going to work in the factories and shipyards. Turning the Tide takes us from the outbreak of war in September 1939 to June 1944 when the allied armied landed in Normandy to fight the German's in history's largest seaborne invasion. Among the landmark events of the years between, covered by combat cameramen, are the Battle of Britain, the tragic raid on Dieppe, the landing in Sicily, and the battle for Ortona. Part 2. June to December 1944. After years of dedication and sacrifice, an Allied victory seems tantalizingly close. The Liberators accompanies Canadian soldiers from their D-Day landings on the shores of Normany up from the coast of Northern France and into Belgium and Holland. The film also visits the home front in Canada, where the war effort was transforming the country into a formidable industrial nation- the fourth largest producer of armaments among the Allied countries. In achieiving this, women played a leading role with almost one million in the work force by 1944. The Second World War changed the way Canadian women say themselves and, indeed the way the country as a whole saw itself - a young nation that had now become more more mature and self-confident. Part 3. Endings and beginnings: 1945. Paratroopers droping down to fight beyond the Rhine ushered in teh final phase of the war in Europe, a war that was in its sixth year. In Endings and Beginnings, veterans recount their memories of that epochal conflict, in combination with outstanding footage filmed by army cameramen at the front. VE-Day - victory in Europe - on May 8, 1945, saw exuberant celebrations in Canadian cities, but there was still the war in the far east to be won. The film documents Canada's contributions toward that goal, which was finally achieved four months later. In the aftermath of the war a confident Canadian industry converted to peacetime purposes. But, on the personal level, peace could be intimidating. A former sailor recalls, "The big objective was to get the uniform off and get a job. I had to learn a whole new set of rules and a while new way of living - very quickly."

Canada Remembers is a series of three one-hour films celebrating the victorious conclusion of the Second World War. Interspersed with newsreel, documentary and rare archival footage are the vivid memories of men and women who recall life during the war years- in the smoke of battle, in ships pitching through perilous seas, in bombers hurtling through the night, and in the clang and clamor of factories where Canada was forging the weapons of war.