Drylanders
The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation
1962 · 1h 9m · N/A
Drama, Family, Western
Directed by
Don Haldane
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Drylanders
Overview
The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies.
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