English (en-US)

Name

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion

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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.

Dutch; Flemish (nl-NL)

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Miniserie die de tragische gebeurtenissen van 6 december 1917 in de haven van Halifax, Canada, nabootst. Er vond een enorme explosie plaats toen een Frans schip, geladen met oorlogs explosieven, per ongeluk in botsing kwam met een Noors schip. Het was de grootste door mensen veroorzaakte explosie tot de detonatie van de eerste atoombom in 1945.

Spanish; Castilian (es-ES)

Name

La explosión de Halifax

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Miniserie que recrea los trágicos sucesos ocurridos el 6 de diciembre de 1917 en el puerto de la ciudad canadiense de Halifax, donde se produjo una enorme explosión al chocar accidentalmente un barco francés, cargado con explosivos de guerra, con otro buque noruego. Fue la explosión más grande producida por el hombre, hasta la detonación de la primera bomba atómica en 1945.

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