Is truth more dramatic than fiction? Does dramatic re-enactment make a documentary better, more exciting or does it raise doubt about the facts? Does it matter how close an historical drama clings to the facts? DEEMOCRACY ON TRAIL: THE MORGENTALER AFFAIR uses narration, interviews, archive film and re-enactment to tell the story of an activist doctor who has performed thousands of abortions in defiance of Canadian law. A SHOUT OF REBELLION is the re-enactement of a woman’s painful struggle for knowledge about her daughter’s death in hospital. THE PRESIDENT shows the stranger-than fiction story of a stubborn Polish man who raises pigs in his house to demonstrate how to end world hunger.
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The failings of Canada’s justice system as seen through the dramatization of a particular case. The case is that of an accused abortionist. DEMCRACY ON TRIAL: THE… -
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A retired blue collar, poet and visionary, decided he would fight against starvation in the world. This became his passion – he had been hungry as a child during…