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Multimillionaire, press baron, and "entrepreneur extraordinaire", Max Aitken (1879 - 1964) was, in his time, the most powerful Canadian on the world stage. The Canadian-born son of a presbyterian minister, Aitken didn't start off as a tycoon. At age 20, he was flat broke, running a bowling alley in Canada. By age 32, he was living the high life in Britain as a multimillionaire, a knight, and a member of the British Parliament. Aitken climbed to the heights of the aristocracy - becoming Lord Beaverbrook, befriending Winston Churchill and building the world's greatest newspaper empire. The film delves into the controversy surrounding the insatiable appetite for power, money and women of the man who adopted the name Beaverbrook, in memory of a stream running near his home in New Brunswick.

Canada - 2000 - 46 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Réalisation Robert Duncan Scénario Robert Duncan Image Bill Kerrigan, Fred MacDonald, Pat Richard, Doug Sjoquist, Keith Taylor Son Marc Benoit, Lisa Kolisnyk, Danny Leadly, Olivier Léger, Ian MacDonald, Robert Mackenzie, Orca Pacific Montage Janice Brown Musique John Sereda

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Ventes Office National du Film du Canada, Programme international, Case po, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréa, 3155 Chemin de la Côte-de-Liesse, St-Laurent, H4N 2N4 Montréal (Québec), Canada Tél : +1 514 283 9439 Fax : +1 514 496 1895 E-mail : j.leduc@onf.ca