What We Might Have Been

The tragic battlefield loss that ended the dreams of a nation

Created for the 90th anniversary of the battle of Beaumont Hamel, this documentary recreates the "war to end all wars", when the independent nation of Newfoundland raised a regiment to fight for Britain in World War One, when the Regiment was virtually wiped out on July 1, 1916 in France, and when the repercussions of that loss later catapulted Newfoundland into losing its independence and becoming a province of Canada.

"We can picture ourselves at this point in time as a people... and maybe what we might have been. There is that feeling that we weren't served well by this particular episode, this particular war of Britain's that we entered into with so much optimism and that we fell away from with so much despair." (author Kevin Major)

Produced by Chris Brookes with Curtis Rumbolt

AWARDS:
Gold Medal, New York Festivals 2007