Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion

📺 Series CA
โ˜… 6.8 /10 2003

Shattered City, an epic two-part mini-series, dramatizes a compelling piece of Canadian history. It is the story of how a tragic incident at the height of the First World War became a living metaphor for the worldwide conflict, and how Halifax arose from the ashes after severe destruction and devastation. In the early hours of December 6, 1917, the Mont Blanc, a French-owned freighter loaded to the gunnel's with thousands of tons of TNT, collided with a Belgian relief ship and exploded in the Halifax Harbour. The explosion was so vast that it killed more than 2,000 people, injured 9,000 more and completely flattened two square kilometers of northern Halifax. The series settles mostly on one family, the Collins, who's eldest son Charlie, a captain in the Royal Canadian Army, who tries to find the rest of his family including his fatally injured father, as well as his mother, and other siblings among the rubble, and later finds himself as a lawyer defending the Mont Blanc's captain, Le Medec, and the harbor helmsman, Fracis Mackay, in court on the tragic explosion by the vindictive authorities looking for a scapegoat in the tragedy.

Cast

Paul Doucet
Paul Doucet
Captain Le Medec
Gordon Michael Woolvett
Gordon Michael Woolvett
Sergeant Sam Barlow
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Clare Stone
Constance 'Connie' Collins
Max Morrow
Max Morrow
Courtney 'Court' Collins
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Richard Donat
Patrick Collins
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Lynne Griffin
Millicent Collins
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Leon Pownall
Commander Frederick Wyatt
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Brian Downey
Capt. Horatio Brannen
John Dunsworth
John Dunsworth
Naval Officer McNabb
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Graham Harley
Mr. Cleese