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GreatGoodWatch scoreSummary
Naturalist Bill Mason on his journey by canoe into the Ontario wilderness. The filmmaker and artist begins on Lake Superior, then explores winding and sometimes tortuous river waters to the meadowlands of the river's source.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Skip it if
- You want dark or edgy material
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 80GoodWatch 82
IMDb8.0
Running time
1 h 27 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −9 min on the typical 96
typical 9687Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
1984
August 25, 1984
42 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- Canada
Directing · 1
- Bill Mason Director, Producer, Editor
Production · 4
- Wilber Sutherland Executive Producer
- Dean Peterson Executive Producer
- Margaret Pettigrew Associate Producer
- Kathleen Shannon Associate Producer
Camera · 1
- Ken Buck Director of Photography
Sound · 5
- Bruce Cockburn Music
- Hugh Marsh Music
- Austin Grimaldi Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Joe Grimaldi Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Alan Geldart Sound, Sound Editor
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