Heaven On Earth (1987)
An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British 'bricks for Empire building' - based on the memoirs of some of the 100,000 'home children' who helped build the new Canada.
- Date of release
- 1987-03-01
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Allan Kroeker
Casting
- R.H. Thomson — Wilf Hawthorne
- Jan Austin — Catherine Hawthorne
- Sarah Polley — Becky Hawthorne
- Nathan Adamson — Joe Hawthorne
- Fiona Reid — Abigail Hawthorne
- Sian Leisa Davies — Megan Davies
- Amos Crawley — Robin Davies
- Cedric Smith — Mr. MacDonald
- Maureen McRae — Mrs. MacDonald
- Huw Davies — Gareth Andrews
- Torquil Campbell — Len Hawkins
- David Hughes — Arnold Croft
Interesting facts
Heaven on Earth is a British and Canadian dramatic television film, directed by Allan Kroeker and released in 1987. A coproduction of the BBC and CBC Television, the film centres on a group of orphaned children from the United Kingdom who are sent to Canada as Home Children in the 1910s.
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