Tom Burger Trailers
Fish or Cut Bait TrailerNo Harbour for War TrailerThe Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939 Trailer
Fish or Cut Bait TrailerNo Harbour for War TrailerThe Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939 Trailer
Total trailers found: 4
27 September 1991
No Harbour for War documents the active movement in Halifax against the Gulf War of 1991 and the role of war played by Halifax from its founding in 1749 to the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755, WWI and the Halifax Explosion of 1917, and the many wars of the 20th century.
01 January 1978
Burger and McKiggan document the lives of the low-wage working class in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1970s.
01 January 1993
In the 1970's, filmmakers Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan and Chuck Lapp began documenting the history and current struggles of inshore fishermen in Atlantic Canada to form a union.
30 September 1979
In the fall of 1939, more than 600 fishermen and fish handlers in the tiny town of Lockeport, Nova Scotia walked the picket line in front of the town's only employers, Swim Brothers and the Lockeport Company.