Canal Zone

Frederick Wiseman

Canal Zone is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the canal and the various governmental agencies related to its functioning and the lives of the Americans in the zone.

DIRECTOR
Frederick Wiseman
YEAR
1977
COUNTRY
U.S.
RUNTIME
174 minutes

Canal Zone is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the canal and the various governmental agencies related to its functioning and the lives of the Americans in the zone. The film includes sequences of ships in transit, the work of special canal pilots, aspects of the civil government, the work of the military, and the social, religious and recreational life of the Zonians. 

Canal Zone
Canal Zone
Canal Zone

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