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The last days of Okak [videorecording].

National Film Board of Canada, [199-?].

VIDEO 970.1 L349

Moravian Church -- Missions -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Okak.

Influenza -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Okak.

Inuit -- Missions -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Okak.

Okak (Nfld.) -- History.

[videorecording].

1 videocassette (VHS) (24 min.) : sd., col. ; 1.25 cm.

Produced by the NFB, English Program, Atlantic Centre, with the assistance of the Canada Council Explorations Program, the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-operative and the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council.

Public performance rights.

Director, Anne Budgell; Nigel Markham; producer, Kent Martin; executive producer, Barry Cowling; script, Anne Budgell; photography/editing, Nigel Markham; sound, Jim Rillie; sound editing, Eric Emery; narrator, Waldo Scharwey; Fran Williams.

Only grass-covered ruins remain of the once-thriving town of Okak, an Inuit settlement on the northern Labrador coast. Moravian missionaries evangelized the coast and encouraged the growth of Inuit settlements, but it was also a Moravian ship that brought the deadly Spanish influenza during the world epidemic of 1919. The Inuit of the area were decimated, and Okak was abandoned. Through diaries, old photos and interviews with survivors, this film relates the story of the epidemic, with its accompanying horrors, as well as examining the relations between the natives and the missionairies. (Also produced in an Inuktituk version, 106C 0585 112.) (Awards: Mannheim; Halifax.)

Markham, Nigel.

Cowling, Barry.

Scharwey, Waldo.

Williams, Fran.

National Film Board of Canada.

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