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The National Dream

1974 · 1 season

A stately, instructive blend of talking-head history and rugged period reenactment, rewarding patience with a tangible sense of nation-building grit.

Genres
Documentary, Drama
Overview
A combination of documentary and dramatic reconstructions, depicting the conception and construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 19th century.
How it feels
Earnest, warm and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
About
Ambition, survival, politics, class
Content
Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

Cast

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Details

Genres
documentary, drama
Created by
Eric Till, James Murray
Written by
Pierre Berton, Timothy Findley, William Whitehead
Starring
John Colicos, Chris Wiggins, Gerard Parkes, William Hutt, Gillie Fenwick, Ted Follows, Joseph Shaw, Pierre Berton
Cinematography
Harry Makin
Length
1 seasons, 7 episodes, 56 min each
Network
CBC Television
Country
Canada
Languages
English

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