Giant Mine (1996)
CBC's dramatic account of the tragedy of Yellowknife's Giant Mine, in which 9 miners were killed during a bitter labour dispute.
- Date of release
- 1996-12-08
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Penelope Buitenhuis
Casting
- Peter Outerbridge — Jim O'Neil
- Thomas Mitchell — Chris Neill
- Alberta Watson — Peggy Witte
- Richard Fitzpatrick — John Fraherty
- Peter MacNeill — Harry Seaton
- Wayne Robson — Bill Schram
- Shawn Doyle — Al Shearing
- William Forrest MacDonald — Major Ralph
- Frank Moore — Roger Warren
- A.C. Peterson — Tim Beuger
- Scott Speedman — Spanky Riggs
- Lubomir Mykytiuk — Josef Pandev
Interesting facts
Giant Mine is a Canadian television film, which dramatizes the events of the 1992 Giant Mine labour dispute and the subsequent bomb explosion which killed nine replacement workers. The film, written by John Hunter and Martin O'Malley and directed by Penelope Buitenhuis, aired on CBC Television in 1996.
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