The King Chronicle

Country: Canada
Elsewhere: IMDb

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A docudrama miniseries that blends documentary and dramatic scenes to portray the life of former Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King. It covers his family background, early political career, and later years including major national events like the Conscription Crisis.

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The King Chronicle is a Canadian docudrama television miniseries, directed by Donald Brittain and broadcast by CBC Television in 1988. Blending both documentary and dramatic elements, the six-hour series was a portrait of former Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, with Sean McCann in the leading role. The first episode centred primarily on King's pre-political family background, the second focused on his early political career including the King–Byng affair of 1926, and the third focused on his late political career including the Conscription Crisis of 1944. The cast also included Gary Reineke as King's economic advisor Oscar D. Skelton, Albert Millaire as prime minister Wilfrid Laurier, Sandy Webster as cabinet minister James Ralston, R. H. Thomson as military commander and diplomat Andrew McNaughton, George Merner as Winston Churchill, Richard Farrell as Governor-General Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Patricia Collins as Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, Doris Petrie as King's mother Isabel, and Tom Harvey as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The series was broadcast by CBC Television over three nights, from March 27 to March 29, 1988. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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