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Ground War

Item number (ISN):

608134

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2018

Item number (ISN):

608134

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADA MEDIA FUND

Accession:

2019-0010

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2018

Production company:

Texted Master
Take Action Films
Ground War Productions Inc.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Documentary Channel

Production credit:

director/producer/scenario, Andrew Nisker; producer, Diana Warmé; executive producer, F.M. Morrison; photography, Iain Robinson; editing, Cathy Gulkin, Craig Nisker; sound, Adam Raley; music, Menalon

Description:

Andrew Nisker's Ground War is deeply personal investigation into the death of the filmmaker's father. Harold Nisker was a “health nut,” a man who exercised diligently. For decades, Harold played golf every day except for winter: it kept him fit and he loved the game. It was only after his father's shocking death by lymphatic cancer that Andrew began to wonder why the golf course he played in was so uniformly green and manicured. His discovery that one of the chemicals used at the course was part of Agent Orange, the notorious “defoliant” that killed countless Vietnamese during the Vietnam War sets Nisker on a journey that takes him to the original quite weedy and bumpy Scottish golf course, Donald Trump's Americanized version of it, and a look at chemical pesticides as a potential cause of cancer. <1h 18mn 43s>

Language:

English

Original number:

143009

Notes:

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1. Produced with the participation of the Canada Media Fund (CMF).~2. The subject description was sourced from Andrew Nisker's website.
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Conditions of access:

open

Restrictions on consultation:

Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Ground War Productions Inc., 2018.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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