The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes

Directed by Bill Mason · Starring Blake James · 1968

A lone canoeist drifts through millions of years of geological history, from Ice Age to flood, in a playful account of how the Great Lakes were formed and what humans have done to them.

Bill Mason's witty classic turns geology and pollution into a playful canoe trip through time.

A lesson in geography, which concludes that although the Great Lakes have had their ups and downs, nothing has been harder to take than what humans have done to them lately. In the film, a lone canoeist lives through the

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