WATCH Video: Cruel Camera

Cruel Camera

Twenty-five years ago, Bob Mckeown and a fifth estate crew stunned the country with an investigative report that showed that many of the wildlife documentaries we'd grown up watching on television (remember the famous footage of the lemmings going off the cliff or some of the memorable moments from shows like Wild Kingdom?) were staged for the television cameras. As well, they revealed that animals often died during the making of movies; all for the sake of the entertainment value.

Now, Bob McKeown and an investigative team have returned to the subject to find out what has changed since the fifth estate's first Cruel Camera documentary. What they found may astonish you.

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Credits

producer/director: Oleh J. Rumak
reporter/writer: Bob McKeown
senior associate producer: Howard Goldenthal
editor: Leslie Steven Onody
cinematography: John Badcock, CSC, Peter Zin, Colin Allison, Brian Kelly, John Griffin
audio: Joe Passaretti, Keith Bonnell, Larry Kent, Matt Green
graphic designer: Tim Kindrachuk
audio mix: Damian Kearns
website producer: Annette Bradford
website coordinator: Eleanor Besley
senior producer: Sally Reardon
executive producer: David Studer