Oct 09, 2014
106 min
Full-HD

Panama Canal Stories (2014)

Five shorts spanning a century on lives impacted by the Panama Canal. Men, women and children who are influenced by the existence of the "Canal", the event that changed the history of not only a country but the world.

Category

Drama History

Country

Panama

Companies

WP Films Manglar Films Hypatia Films

Lakisha May

Clarice Thompson (segment "1913") / Clarice Jones (segment "2013")

Andre Morris

Phillip (segment "1913")

Charlie Goldstein

Jake Wright (segment "1950") (as Carlos Eduardo Goldstein Alemán)

Kathleen Wise

Patsy Wright (segment "1950")

Hannah Schöbitz

Lucy (segment "1964")

Luis Manuel Barrios

Silverio (segment "1977")

José Angel Murillo

Leonidas (segment "1977")

Meredith Carley

Aunt Perla (segment "2013")

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