Reviews

Every Canadian should watch this limited series as part of experiencing some truth and reconciliation about Indigenous experiences. The story focus moves through the same family but with a peak into each different family member's experiences and points of views.

In episode 1, we follow a young girl named Aline. She is the central story figure and is removed by the church from her home and put into a Residential School. It then follows her relationship with Adam, their WW2 experience in Britain and then continues into their own family experiences.

I strongly encourage people to have the strength to watch this series all of the way through to hopefully learn about some of the miscarriages of justice and utterly horrible treatment that our indigenous citizens had to endure.

Warning: There are parts of this series dealing with the abuse and atrocities inflicted by the churches, especially the Catholic Church. Some people may not like this. They probably want to believe that events like this never happened. But please don't lower your perceived 'enjoyment' of this kind of media just because these facts might contradict your own positive experiences with the church. Crime should be punished, not just be absolved with repentance. IMO, this series highlights the view that serious Catholic issues-management reforms are needed... not just to payoff families, and then hide or relocate the offenders to another congregation.

Please watch this, and then recommend it to everyone you know.

If this was made for TV as "investigative journalism", the editor-producer probably would have cut this easily to half (or less?) in runtime length.

It's a good story, worth telling / watching. In hindsight, I'd probably recommend to others to just watch the last episode. It contains some of the best clues, IMO.

The middle two episodes... my goodness, they really drag out, repeat scenes / themes, present us with non-credible "witness" accounts of what I can only describe as opinions (i.e. Journalistic garbage) that attempt to mislead the viewer. Why did the producer leave these in the final cut? Did Netflix have a minimum runtime duration stipulated before purchasing this documentary?

IMO, besides the only disappearance of a person (apparently), ever, in the history of The Vatican, this documentary length is a mystery that should be solved.

Every character on the show gets a moment to set their future path. Gonna miss this show.

Quirky new show that we just started to watch. First trip into town... we noticed the town hall looked VERY familiar. For those who have been to Cobourg, you might recognize the downtown that they try to pass off as a small town called Wellsbury, MA.

Good storylines, and some good acting, but man... can we just get on with the plots? I'm a boomer, and even then this moves too slowly for me. I can't imagine millenials watching this pace of a show.

Sorry, I ain't sticking around to watch 60 episodes of this.

This is not a concert nor an authentic Italian movie experience. This is, however, a remarkable Americanized version of Amos'/Andre's struggles and triumphs in his early life. A must see for fans...and an inspirational story for all.

This film was screened at my child's high school recently, along with Dr. Ruston's Q&A session after the viewing. My wife and I saw the film with both of our kids in attendance. That's Dr. Ruston's objective: for families to watch the film together and then discuss what they saw. Note: This film is not available (yet) for ad-hoc individual downstreaming at the time of the review. (January 2018)

Some of the negative reviews, I believe, miss this point. Take the film for what it is: a very good eye opener for both parents and their children to see together. Don't expect the film to solve your problems or offer solutions. It's still up to parents to decide what is appropriate behavior, IMO. Perhaps this conversation could even spark a discussion within corporations about 'screen' time and effects on employees?

At minimum, both parents and kids should gain some knowledge after seeing this film that either starts a dialog or at least acknowledges what is 'necessary' versus 'recreational' (or even 'harmful'?) uses of technology within their home. If you don't talk about it, you are just ignoring the message of the film...which may be fine for your home.

However, if you want to start the dialog on screen/device use in the home, with your family, then please encourage your school to order/schedule the movie viewing from Dr. Ruston ASAP.