Experience war through sight and sound. Knowledge’s Remembrance Day programming showcases much to remember.

War Oratorio: A Day at War in Five Movements
Wednesday, November 11 at 9pm

Radio City, Knowledge’s destination for performing arts documentaries, presents the North American premiere of the harrowing and thought-provoking music film War Oratorio: A Day at War in Five Movements.

Director James Kent (Holocaust: A Musical Memorial Film from Auschwitz) traces a day in the life of three people in modern day war zones offering a graphic and disturbing portrait of the horrors of conflict through song, music and stark documentary footage.

This ground-breaking film is based on interviews with three witnesses to war – a grieving mother in Kashmir who lost her son to an explosion; a former child soldier in Uganda who bares the emotional and physical scars of being forced into a rebel army before the age of ten; and a British RAF pilot in Afghanistan.

The interviews are interwoven with a specially commissioned classical oratorio performed by the acclaimed Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, with performances from musicians affected by war.

War Oratorio offers a mesmerizing look at the globalization of warfare in the 21st Century by juxtaposing music and film. It’s a not-to-be missed television event.

John McCrae’s War: In Flanders Fields
Wednesday, November 11 at 7pm

A portrait of the author of one of the most quoted and well-loved poem from WW1, from his childhood, with its Presbyterian and military upbringing in Guelph, Ontario to the battlefields of Belgium.

Unwanted Soldiers
Wednesday, November 11 at 8pm

In this very personal National Film Board documentary, director Jari Osborne discovers not only her father's heroic involvement in World War II, but also uncovers a legacy of discrimination and politically sanctioned racism against British Columbia's Chinese-Canadian community.

A War Story
Wednesday, November 13 at 10pm

An NFB docudrama (directed by B.C. filmmaker Anne Wheeler) based on the diaries of Canadian doctor Ben Wheeler, who fought a private and desperate war to save lives during his internment in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during WWII.

Canada’s War in Colour
Fridays at 7pm, beginning October 30 for three weeks

The story of Canada during the Second World War told through the exclusive use of original colour movie footage that has lain unseen for decades in the storage rooms of the world's great archives and in the private home movie collections of ordinary Canadians across the country.

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