Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Wings of a Continent (1941)

Wings of a Continent poster
Country
Canada
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a short documentary from 1941 about Canada's wartime efforts and transportation networks. It is part of a series of films made to inform the public. The narrator describes the planes and routes that connect the country.

educationalpatrioticinformativematter-of-factdatedneutralinstructional

What happens

Wings of a Continent is a 1941 Canadian short documentary film, part of the wartime Canada Carries On series of short films by the National Film Board of Canada, produced for the Office of Public Information. The film was directed by Raymond Spottiswoode—father of filmmaker Roger Spottiswoode—written and produced by Stuart Legg and narrated by Lorne Greene. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?