This film includes two parts of dramatized monologues based on Mennonite history from 1525-2008. Part one explains early history of the Anabaptist movement with a spotlight on ‘John’ Menno Simons (played by John Friesen), who is a farmer moving from Prussia to Russia. Part two entails a story of a teacher in Southern Manitoba, and highlights migration to North America/Western Canada.
The Last Objectors: (2016) (45 min.)
The Last Objectors is a TV-Hour (45 min) documentary on Canada’s conscientious objectors of the Second World War who chose to perform alternative service instead of going to war. They would spend years working in forestry camps, hospitals, asylums and various other positions throughout the country with little pay and no benefits. A Refuge 31 film. Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives.