Dreflix: That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations

That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations

The documentary tells the little known story of thousands of Ukrainian and Eastern Europeans that were interned in Canadian camps during the First World War.

2018

Documentary·History

1h 18min

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