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AMDB’s research team also works with librarians, data specialists, and archivists to continuously enhance records in addition to expaning the database. Records are enhanced by adding archival film holdings...

The W.O. Mitchell Archives at the University of Calgary hosts numerous drafts of the screenplay, extensive correspondence between Mitchell and director Claude Fournier, and even has a glossy, coil-bound...

The film is based on real events in the 1890s, when Kitchi-manito-waya (Almighty Voice), a 20-year old Cree man, was arrested for slaughtering a government cow or steer...

In October 1895, a decade later, Almighty Voice was arrested. In some accounts, the cow he slaughtered was the property of nearby settlers, in others it was government property;...

Though the Canadian prairies have provided the landscapes for a great many American Westerns, domestic Canadian Westerns are a rare breed indeed.⁵Alien Thunder is a far cry from...

Mitchell’s screenplay provided a sweeping portrait of prairie life in the 1890s, featuring a large, diverse cast of characters (early drafts included Doukhobors and Chinese migrant labourers), an early-narrative...