Forced March to Freedom series
- Series
- 1994-2004
Part of Paperny Films fonds
Directed by David Paperny and narrated by Ann Medina, Forced March to Freedom (2001) documents the forced march by the Nazis of 10,000 prisoners of war out of Stalag Luft III and across Germany in the middle of winter. This seventy-two-minute production chronicles an amazing test of endurance during the Second World War as told through the eyes of pilot and artist Robert Buckham, a Toronto-born Canadian prisoner of war on this march. Buckman produced countless sketches and watercolours of prison camp life and one of the only chronicles of the forced march itself. Interviews with Buckman and other prisoners of war, as well as the few known surviving photographs of the event, accentuate sketches of camp life and the march. Individuals interviewed include Jim Plant, Gordon King, Charles Clarke, Bill Rylend, Jack Kelogg, David Westheimer, Doc Mosely, and University of Calgary military historian Holger Herwig.
Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video and audio elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.