Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion(2003)
Drama
First Air Date: 2003-10-26
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 2.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 2
Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion is a two-part miniseries produced in 2003 by CBC Television. It presents a fictionalized version of the Halifax Explosion, a 1917 catastrophe that destroyed much of the city of Halifax. It was directed by Bruce Pittman and written by Keith Ross Leckie. The Film Stars Vincent Walsh, Tamara Hope, Clare Stone, Zachary Bennett, Shauna MacDonald and Ted Dykstra. The series was expensive by Canadian television standards with a budget of $10.4 million. It was heavily promoted by the CBC and paired with a number of non-fiction documentaries. The broadcast drew a sizable Canadian audience of 1.5 million viewers. It drew some praise for the adept use of special effects to show the destruction of the explosion. However the miniseries was poorly received critically. One critic at the Globe and Mail described it as "execrably written and acted" while another strained to find positive elements, "At times, there is a plodding workmanlike quality to Shattered City." The miniseries won some technical awards at the Canadian television Gemini Awards in 2004 but was passed over for any direction or writing awards and won only a single supporting acting award for Ted Dykstra.
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Season 1
Episodes: 2E01
Episode 1
Air Date: 2003-10-26
World War I is brewing and most Canadians are scared of a Germany invasion. So when ships come to visit, everyone is ...
E02
Episode 2
Air Date: 2003-10-26
Recovery begins and so does the finger pointing. A one mile radius around the harbor has been flattened. The trial is...
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