Who's Who In Film: War of 1812 : PBS

Who's Who in the Film

Walter Borneman

Walter Borneman is the author of 1812: The War That Forged a Nation; The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America; and Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land.

Rene Chartrand

Rene Chartrand is a Canadian historian and former senior curator with Canada's National Historic Sites. He is now a freelance writer and historical consultant.

Ronald J. Dale

Ronald J. Dale is superintendent of Niagara National Historic Sites, including Fort George, Ontario and Brock’s Monument. He is the author of The Invasion of Canada and The Fall of New France, and a noted authority on the Canadian involvement in the war.

Douglas DeCroix

Douglas DeCroix is the executive director of Western New York Heritage Magazine. He had conducted extensive research on the battles that took place along the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812.

James Elliott

James Elliott is a Canadian journalist and the author of Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek.

Donald Fixico

Donald Fixico is the Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, and the author of Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts and Sovereignty and Rethinking American Indian History.

Dianne Graves

Dianne Graves is a Canadian historian and the author of In the Midst of Alarms: The Untold Story of Women of the War of 1812. She is a member of Ensign Heritage, a historical consulting group.

Donald E. Graves

Donald E. Graves is the director of Ensign Heritage, and an internationally recognized expert on the military history of the War of 1812. He is co-author of The Incredible War of 1812 and author of Where Right and Glory Lead: The Battle of Lundy's Lane, 1814.

Major John R. Grodzinski

Major John R. Grodzinski is professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada and author of The War of 1812: An Annotated Bibliography.

Donald R. Hickey

Donald R. Hickey is a professor of history at Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska. He is the author of Don't Give Up the Ship: Myths of the War of 1812 and The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict.

Jim Hill

Jim Hill is manager of Heritage Operations at the Niagara Parks Commission in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Rick Hill

Rick Hill is an artist, historian and expert on tribal history of New York state and Ontario.

Scott S. Sheads

Scott S. Sheads is a ranger, historian and historic weapons officer at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. He is co-author of The War of 1812 in the Chesapeake.

Andrew Lambert

Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History at King’s College University of London, and the author of War at Sea in the Age of Sail. He is an expert on British trade and naval history.

A. Jack Langguth

A. Jack Langguth is professor emeritus of journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California at Los Angeles. He is the author of Union: 1812.

Vince Leggett

Vince Leggett is the founder and president of the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation. He is an expert on African-American history in the Chesapeake.

Robert Miller

Robert Miller is a professor of law at Lewis and Clark College, and the author of Native America: Discovered and Conquered.

Bob Malcomson

Bob Malcomson was a Canadian naval historian of the War of 1812, and the author of author of Capital in Flames: The American Attack on York, 1813. Mr. Malcomson died in 2009.

Anthony Pitch

Anthony Pitch is a lecturer, tour guide and the author of The Burning of Washington. He is a prominent expert on the British campaign in the Chesapeake.

Sir Christopher Gerald Prevost

Sir Christopher Gerald Prevost is four times great-grandson to George Prevost, Governor-in-Chief of British North America during the War of 1812. He is co-author of The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History.

John Sugden

John Sugden is the author of Tecumseh, a biography of the Shawnee war chief. He is an expert on the Native American history in the North America.

Victor Suthren

Victor Suthren is a Canadian naval expert and the author of The War of 1812.

Wolf Thomas

Wolf Thomas is a professional actor, and a re-enactor and interpreter focusing on the Niagara region in the War of 1812.

Peter Twist

Peter Twist is the director of Military Heritage, a historical military uniform and arms supply company. He has served as consultant on numerous film and theater projects, and is an expert on the military history of the era.

John Weiss

John Weiss is a British historian and the author of The Corps of Colonial Marines: Black Freedom Fighters of the War of 1812.

Patrick Wilder

Patrick Wilder is a retired historian with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. He is the author of The Battle of Sackett’s Harbour, 1813.

The War of 1812is a production of WNED-TV, Buffalo/Toronto and Florentine Films/Hott Productions Inc., in association with WETA Washington, D.C., with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities ,The Wilson Foundation, Warren and Barbara Goldring, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Philip B. Lind and The Annenberg Foundation with additional support from The Baird Foundation, Niagara Falls Bridge Commission and The Jackman Foundation.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress

A musical illustation for the Star-Spangled Banner

Production assistant Kevin Rush adds the “fog of war” to the battle scene

Director of Photography Stephen McCarthy and soundman John Davis

A re-enactor has makeup applied before the shooting of a scene

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