02 Nov 1995
Short Working Day
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]
The Arrow
The right stuff. The wrong time.
The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the project was dropped due to political pressure from the United States.
Top Billed Cast
Dan Aykroyd Crawford Gordon Jr.
Sara Botsford Kate O'Hara
Aidan Devine Jim Chamberlin
Nigel Bennett James (Jim) Floyd
Jonathan Whittaker Fred Smye
Ian D. Clark Edward Critchley
David Lawrence Brown Joe Paloffski
Catherine Fitch Ruby Paloffski
Robin Gammell C.D. Howe
Robert Haley John George Diefenbaker
Michael Moriarty President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Michael Ironside CIA Director
Christopher Plummer George Hees
Mauralea Austin June Callwood
Colette Stevenson Claire Connors
Art Hindle Col. Fairchild
Lynne Cormack Mary Gordon
Vernon Chapman George Peakes
Lubomir Mykytiuk Jan Zurakowski
Frank Adamson Air Marshal Wilf Curtis
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