11/11: 

An Epic Tale from the Great War

 

During the final 100 days of the Great War a single commander and his Dominion forces emerged to capture the most ground, the most guns and the most prisoners of any allied army operating on the Western Front during WWI.

 

Gen. Sir Arthur Currie and his Canadian Corp., in relentless pursuit of the Germans, quite literally brought the most terrible war experienced by mankind to a close in 1918 when other Allied commanders and politicians expected an end to hostilities in mid 1919.

 

General Currie’s accomplishment saved millions of men from further slaughter and is the basis for the forthcoming landmark film, 11/11.

 

An epic in the true sense of the word in both story and visual approach, the film employs high definition battlefield footage from historic sites such as Amiens, Drocourt, The Somme, and Vimy Ridge intermixed with the latest in photo realistic battle animation recreation using a combination of soldier reenactors and thousands of digital soldier extras and accurate modeled tanks and biplanes to show, for the first time, the grand scale of a WWI battle composited over the actual ground in which these men fought. 

 

Some scenes include the massive battle of Amiens with the more than 400 Allied tanks which rolled across the French countryside as well as the epic struggle of Vimy Ridge in the blinding snow with the Canadian advance. And not to be surpassed, viewers for the first time will experience the spectacle of Canada's Dominion Day 1918 which took place within earshot of the German guns where 30,000 spectators came to celebrate one nation’s war-time triumphs.

 

The foundation of any compelling historic story is fact and an unparalleled and hand picked selection of on-camera war historians from all corners of the globe will set the story of the last 100 days straight. Their insight will be invaluable to the viewer in understanding military achievements as well as illuminating the context of how hard won struggles on the battlefield of a Dominion nation earned worldwide respect and a seat at the table of the League of Nations. Canada was a nation to itself before the war but after four bloody years, it became a nation to the world. It is the story you never knew and the one you will never forget.

 

Robert Child – Director / 11/11