Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story

This is a brilliant biop not only about medicare but about the whole career of a much loved politician. (That was not necessarily an oxymoron back then!

This film was OK, but took too many liberties for my liking. Parliamentary debates are not as they were portrayed in the first segment and one quotation attributed to Douglas was actually said by Ontario Premier Mitch Hepburn about a decade earlier.

One might expect a mini series over 3 hours about the father of Medicare would be full of fillers but they would be mistaken. The life of T.

Very interesting movie in 2-parts about Tommy Douglas. He's the father of medicare in Canada, but so much more.

I knew him ,loved him,my pals loved him.I cried at his funeral memorial in Vancouver,B.

The film is shamelessly emotional and still pulls it off, because the material is strong. By no means perfect.

"Prairie Giant" is a very good film about the great Canadian social democrat Tommy Douglas, the creator of the first Medicare system in North America, along with the first provincial government leader to sign into law a bill of rights and to legally guarantee collective bargaining in all sectors of the economy. Douglas was a witty and clever speaker, and Theriault does a good job at conveying his oratorical skills.

I am probably the only person on this string of comments who actually met Douglas. That said, I acknowledge the sincere effort of the producers of telling an important historical story, but I was utterly shocked by the inaccurate depiction of Jimmy Gardiner as an ultra right-wing ogre.

I was upset to see that this movie did not give credit where credit is due. That is, Matthew Anderson was not named as co-creator of the health care system in Canada.