The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (1977)

Directed by

Jesse Nishihata

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows First Nations perspectives on a government inquiry about a proposed pipeline in the Mackenzie Valley. It presents the views and concerns of Indigenous communities regarding the project.

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What happens

The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jesse Nishihata and released in 1977. The film explored the First Nations perspective on Thomas R. Berger's Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry of the mid-1970s. CBC Television aired the film in its entirety the day before the release of Berger's report, one of the first times that it ever broadcast a documentary film which it had not exercised direct editorial control during the filmmaking process. The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Feature Length Documentary in 1977. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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