The National Dream (1974)

Directed by

Eric Till, James Murray

Genre

docudrama, documentary television program

Country

Canada

Length

1 season, 7 episodes

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian television series about the building of the railway across Canada in the 1800s. It shows the political and physical challenges of this major construction project.

historicaleducationalinformativeslow-pacedseriousnostalgicdetailed

What happens

The National Dream, also known as The National Dream: Building the Impossible Railway, is a 1974 Canadian television docudrama miniseries based on Pierre Berton's 1970 book of the same name, plus Berton's 1971 follow-up book The Last Spike. The television adaptation was written by William Whitehead and Timothy Findley. Berton is listed as a consultant on the credits. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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