
In Bed With an
Elephant
- Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary
James Laxer & Kent Martin
- Blue Ribbon Award, American Film and Video Festival
- Award of Merit for Research and Script, Atlantic Film Festival


Like all relationships, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, and sometimes downright
dangerous. Using archival film footage, historian James Laxer provides a gripping
retrospective of United States-Canada relationships as personified by successive presidents
and prime ministers. It becomes quite clear that our prime ministers, from John A. Macdonald down, have started their tenures on a sort of first-things-first basis by making overtures to their American counterparts. Attitudes and outcomes have varied widely, and this is what intrigues when seen in close-up. The almost comic antipathy between Kennedy and Diefenbaker, for instance, is as palpable here as is the folksy camaraderie of Reagan and Mulroney.
Directed and Produced by: Kent Martin
Written by: James Laxer and Kent Martin
Research and Production Manager: Erna Buffie
Cinematography: Mike Mahoney
Executive Producer: John Taylor
Watch: http://www.nfb.ca/film/in_bed_with_elephant