- Concordia University Library, Special Collections and Archives
- Brian McKenna fonds
- Documentaries
- CBC Current Affairs, The Fifth Estate
CBC Current Affairs, The Fifth Estate
subseries1936-2018P112/G5
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- Held by
- Concordia University Library, Special Collections and Archives via Concordia University Archives and Special Collections
- Dates
- 1936-2018 (indexed as 1936–2018)
- Level
- subseries
- Extent
- 5.1 m of textual records 47 photographs 19 moving images 1 poster 10 sound recordings
- Scope & content
- The subseries provides information on documentaries Brian McKenna worked on or produced for The Fifth Estate. The subseries contains research materials, monographs, notes, scripts, drafts of documentaries and correspondence, court records, work copies of videos, a sound recording, and other documents. The subseries includes the following documentaries: Apparitions In January 1988 McKenna travelled to Yugoslavia to investigate the claims of six peasant children that they were experiencing apparitions of the Virgin Mary every day at 6:45 pm, and the impact on their small Serbian village. Arnold Expedition Reenactment Belugas This film documents attempts to save the small white whales from massive pollution of their St. Lawrence River habitat. Bismark Bourrassa and Lévesque Car Rackets This investigation into corruption and cover-up in the auto industry was produced by McKenna in his first season at The Fifth Estate. The Cardinal Profile of Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger as he travelled to the Thai-Cambodian border to draw attention to the terrible plight of refugees fleeing the killing fields. CBW Children of the Lost The story of two Argentine doctors attempting to heal the trauma in children whose parents were killed or disappeared during the so-called dirty war. Collaborators With researcher and associate producer Oleh Rumak, McKenna investigated how top Slovak officials from the Nazi Collaborationist government ended up in Canada. The film, code-named Slovaks II has not been shown to the public. A Cruel Place The film documents the state-sponsored terrorism during the Civil War in El Salvador. Death Squad Death in Tripoli Film on the violent and mysterious death of Canadian Christopher Halens, a young Southam journalist in Libya. Empress of Ireland Documentary on the Empress of Ireland, a Titanic -size steamship which sank in the St. Lawrence River Fallen Star The history of the final days of the century-old newspaper, The Montreal Star. Gypsies (never produced) Heroin The Hooded Men In 1982, when Argentina returned to democracy, McKenna took newspaper publisher Jacobo Timmerman back to the jail on the outskirts of Buenos Aires where he had been held and tortured. Iran Drug Film A Journey Back Investigation on Nazi collaborators hiding in Canada, focusing on the story of New York off-Broadway producer Jack Garfein, brought back to his hometown in Slovakia for the first time and then to the Auschwitz and Birkenhau death camps to discover his past. In the film Garfein confronts the gauleiter who had killed his family. Lévesque in New York Quebec’s newly elected and first separatist premier’s trip to New York to try to reassure nervous investors. McGarr Examination of the stress that creates among police the highest rate of alcoholism, divorce and suicide of any profession, seen through the eyes of a Montréal police officer. Making of a Saint Marathon Man Jerome Drayton Mirabel The Money Pit Investigation of attempts made to find buried treasure in the mysterious and secret man-made passages of Nova Scotia’s Oak Island Murder of Hilda Murrer Investigation of the murder of this eccentric English country woman whose death may have been linked to secrets surrounding the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands war. Noah's Ark Astronaut James Irwin was leading an expedition of Christian fundamentalist Americans in search of the remains of Noah’s Ark at Turkey’s Mount Ararat, to prove that the Bible and Creation story are literally true. The Old Man and the C A profile of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and his claims for the healing properties of Vitamin C. Olympic Connection In his first season at The Fifth Estate, McKenna did investigations of corruption during the construction for the 1976 Montréal Olympic Games Olympic Tower Panzers on the Prairies Story of German Army building tanks in Alberta Papa Plouffe A profile of a character in Roger Lemelin’s Les Plouffe series (CBC). Peroff Mounties Pipe Major The Plot Political Corruption The Power and the Glory Inquiry into the politics surrounding the building of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project. Referendums A documentary looking at referendums, including the 1948 vote that brought Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation and leading up to the 1980 referendum on Québec independence and sovereignty association and the “Yvette” women’s movement, as well as the slick methods used in California referendums. René Lévesque Richard Blass In his first season at The Fifth Estate, McKenna started with a film about a mobster named Richard Blass. Robert F. Kennedy The Rocket at 50 In his first season at The Fifth Estate McKenna made a feature on hockey star Maurice “The Rocket” Richard as he turned 50. Rosie Douglas A look at mobster Rosie Douglas. Secret Cargo Documentary on allegations that Pakistan was attempting to smuggle and import through Canada and the United States key components for the construction of an Islamic atomic bomb. Secret Test Film on the CIA-sponsored brainwashing experiments in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s on unsuspecting psychiatric patients at the Royal Victoria Hospital / Allen Memorial Psychiatric Institute in Montréal. Shooting the Messenger Film on the torture and murder of Latin American journalists and the occasional foreign correspondent. State of Siege Inquiry into communist and fascist terrorism in Italy including the infamous Red Brigade. Sunshine Soldiers Veliotis VIP Who Shot JFK? In 1978, McKenna wrote and directed the first national television documentary challenging the conclusions of the official report into the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963, Dallas and After. It was followed by three more documentaries on new evidence: In 1979, Crossfire reported the conclusion of a Congressional Committee that Kennedy was probably killed as the result of a conspiracy. The Coffin was Empty (198?) is a testimony that medical evidence was tampered with during and after the autopsy of Kennedy. McKenna produced Who Shot JFK?, a program summarizing the evidence, on the 20th anniversary of the assassination.
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- Subjects
- Communications (discipline)
- Genre / form
- Multiple media
- Harvested
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