Horses of Suffield / the National Film Board of Canada presents ; director, Nick Bakyta ; narration written by Christine Alevizakis ; producers, Katherine Rankin, Jerry Krepakevich.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bakyta, Nick, film director.

Rankin, Katherine, film producer.

Krepakevich, Jerry, film producer.

Alevizakis, Christine, screenwriter.

Gibson, Elan Ross, narrator.

National Film Board of Canada, production company, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wild horses--Alberta--Suffield.

Wild horses.

Wild horse adoption--Alberta.

Wild horse adoption.

Military bases--Environmental aspects--Alberta--Suffield.

Military bases.

Military bases--Environmental aspects.

Alberta--Suffield.

Alberta.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (47 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2018]

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

For over half a century, the Canadian Army and a herd of wild horses shared a home at CFB Suffield, a sprawling military base near Medicine Hat, Alberta. An odd arrangement, perhaps, but one that seemed to work. The animals and the military managed to stay out of each other's way on the 1600 square kilometre base, which often served as a training ground for the troops, tanks and artillery of the British Army. Today, however, the horses are gone -- victims not of bullets or exploding shells, but of the limited ability of the endangered short-grass environment to sustain their increasing numbers. After much controversy and protest, the 1200 wild horses were rounded up and dispersed across the country in a horse adoption program. Horses of Suffield chronicles the dramatic and emotional story of their fate and explores the environmental factors and decisions that spelled the end for Canada's largest herd of wild horses.

Participant:

Narrator, Elan Ross Gibson.

Credits:

Editor, Michel Lalonde ; camera, Doug Cole, Ken Hewlett, Michel Ouellette ; original music, Rob Hewes.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: National Film Board of Canada, ©1998; previously released in 1999.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 19, 2018).

Publisher Number:

nf-horses Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.