Originally released as a television miniseries for CBC.

Includes DVD-ROM features: Morse code translator ; web site links.

Special features: special effects scenes ; behind the scenes featurette ; executive producer interview ; featurette - glamourous life of a film extra ; CBC-TV news featurette - Explosion survivors ; easter egg.

Director of photography, Rene Ohashi ; editor, Ralph Brunjes ; composer, Christopher Dedrick.

Vincent Walsh, Shauna MacDonald with Graham Green and Pete Postlethwaite.

"Dramatizes the story of how a tragic incident at the height of the First World War became a living metaphor for the worldwide conflict. It shows how Halifax arose from the ashes after severe destruction and devastation. In the early hours of December 6, 1917, the Mont-Blanc, a French-owned freighter loaded to the gunnels with thousands of tons of TNT, collided with a Belgian relief ship and exploded in the Halifax Harbour. The explosion was so vast that it killed more than 2,000 people, injured 9,000 more and completely flattened two square kilometres of northern Halifax." --,(Source of summary not specified)

Canadian Home Video rating: 14A.

Enhanced DVD; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo; enhanced for 16:9 letterbox widescreen TVs; RSDL dual layer.

System requrements for DVD-ROM features: Computer capable of reading DVD-ROM files.

Closed captioned; described soundtrack for the visually impaired.